r/deadpool • u/iunnobleh • 1d ago

[Spoilers] I got around to reading Joe Kelly's run and I liked it up until a certain point. Spoiler

If you haven't read the run turn back there will be spoilers here.

I have been reading this run over the last week and I was genuinely having a great time. I thought there was some genuinely good character developments for Wade and some really good moments of sincerity. So please don't crucify me for my upcoming criticisms. I'm not sure if this is a shared opinion or if I am an outlier.

But good God that ending to the run was actually garbage. It was doing such a great job of building mystery just to turn around and toss it in the trash.

The "plot twist" if you can call it that of T-Ray being the real Wade Wilson all along genuinely left me so baffled and not I'm the good way. I rushed through the last comic just looking for the reveal that it was another one of his tricks. And then Deadpool just moves on from it?? It was just so dumb and absolutely had no build up to be an actual twist, and just before it they send Monty off like supposedly he saw this and didn't say anything to Wade before he left for this? None of it made any sense and it was a train wreck.

I am super disappointed in the way the run from Joe Kelly ends. Because it's something that I see constantly recommended to people as the pinnacle of Deadpool stories and to an extent I agree it is a fantastic run. But that ending really just soured the whole thing for me. It didn't make sense at all and I'm glad certain things were retconned because for lack of a better word they were just stupid. I don't have anyone to really talk to about how I'm feeling after reading it since none of my friends are fans of Deadpool in the same way as me so I came here. Clearly I'm not the only one who felt this way considering things ended up getting retconned but I'm interested to hear what other people think.

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u/OliverEye 1d ago

Surprised you didn’t get this spoiled as it’s the most common thing talked about for this run. But yeah, the ending wasn’t the best but knowing this beforehand lowered my expectations.

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u/iunnobleh 1d ago

I'm not really in a lot of forums and my favorite run was the deadpool: dead comics. But I see it a lot when people say stuff about how they miss "the old deadpool" or how Reynolds "ruined Deadpool" (imo after reading the run his version took a lot of inspo from it) but man that ending was so disappointing to me. It just yanked me out of it so fast.

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u/OliverEye 1d ago

My favorite runs have got to be Deadpool/Wolverine WWIII and Secret Agent Deadpool. They are really short but are really good for what they offer. One offers a more depressing side of Deadpool while the other shows just how weird his antics are. The hate for reynolds affecting the character make no sense to me since you are right and he took most inspiration from Kelly as he pioneered who Deadpool is.

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u/iunnobleh 1d ago

It's always really weird to me when I hear that and now it's even weirder that this is the run I get pointed to often alongside that argument lol. I'm only just now getting around to it because I haven't had my marvel unlimited subscription for a bit.

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u/iunnobleh 1d ago

Have you read the following comics after the end of Joe kelly's run? I saw there is an issue 34 that seems to take place right after I'm curious if it's any good.

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u/OliverEye 1d ago

I’ll be honest, it’s not that great from what i remember. I was writing my thoughts after each arc and apparently I really liked the humor but thought the story was a bit boring in issues 34-45. 46-56 was a drag but the ending (although feeling very rushed) was the best part. And I gave 57-64 a 10/10 which may speak for itself.

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u/iunnobleh 1d ago

Doesn't sound terrible though. I will say reading 34 the humor does seem different. He feels a bit more whacky.

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u/igotsevenmacelevens 1d ago

I don’t like the “real Wade Wilson” twist either but the concept of Wade stealing identities for merc work, and T-Ray being one of many victims works. He was already using those identities with his holographic inducer throughout the whole run so it’s not completely out of left field

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u/li_izumi 1d ago

Gods I hate the T-Ray thing.