So I’ve been meaning to do this because it looks like some fun ranting. And because my script is in the romance section and it’s depressing.
So AlertNerd asked: What is the one topic in any of your fandoms that you cannot discuss rationally because it makes you too insane/angry/scary-eyed?
It should come as absolutely zero surprise that mine is the new changes to Deadpool. They’ve made me drop the comic. They’ve made me almost rip another one in half. They’ve done terrible things to the character and they’ve made me sad inside.
Let’s recap here. Deadpool is a very difficult character to screw up. You can have a shitty sense of humour and turn out a shitty comic, but still not screw up the character and therefore not encourage my ire. He is a blood happy assassin that likes killing things, likes getting paid for it more and fully realizes that he’s a fictional character so there’s no lasting affects of his actions. And that’s all you really need to know about Deadpool.
In the hands of more skilled writers like Joe Kelly, you get times when he gets definition, story arcs and serious moments. If you aren’t intimately familiar with the character, you stay away from doing this.
If you’re Nicieza or Simone, you do the fun slapstick and don’t worry too much about the serious. Their humour was fun for the most part and, while some of their characterization was a little funny at times, they essentially didn’t deviate from the character much without proper motive.
And if you’re Way, then you’re a fucking moron.
It is not that hard to keep him in character! But what happens? He doesn’t seem to understand why he’s crazy, so instead he puts in Deadpool-o-Vision! Gives him white text boxes for no reason! And the yellow boxes are apparently no longer him narrating, but something entirely different! He’s adding gimmicks with no reason and DAMN YOU!
Deadpool o’ Vision pains me. There’s one instance of him hallucinating. Playboy bunnies pouring milk. And that turned into a whole story arc about his past and how it wasn’t real and T-Ray and continuity problems being introduced so that they could bring them up again later in a joking manner about how no one understands his convoluted past.
This… thing Way’s doing is coming without any reason. He was never that kind of crazy. He was fully aware of continuity crazy. Not, you look like a fluffy bunny in my head crazy. Way’s trying to erect a fourth wall where there shouldn’t be one for him and he… just… GAH.
And then there’s the boxes. You know how they used to just be these yellow things that were an extension of Deadpool to narrate things on the off chance he’s not talking? Yeah, now they’re playing shoulder angel and devil. Which he DOESN’T HAVE. He’s in a comic and knows it. Remember when Cable tried the conscience thing when Nicieza wrote it? Yeah. That.
THAT GODDAMN YOU!
It doesn’t help that he’s not funny either. And now everyone’s gotta use the Deadpool vision and the fucking multiple unconnected text boxes. And there was no lead up into it in continuity and there was no reason for any of this to happen and you brought in BOB YOU BASTARD and screwed him up too!
Please, someone come in and retcon this whole horrible thing. Make it a dream for all I care. Just make it end.
Tags: comic, deadpool, marvel, rant
