Milligan (w) and Lafuente (a) and L. Allred (c) and Cowles (l)
Despite Doop's sudden ability to speak English, Kitty still refuses his marriage proposal. He brings her between the margins, which freaks her out a little, but he treats her to an ultimately nice night. He also tells her (as this happens during BATTLE OF THE ATOM) that she should have the courage of her convictions and that she should fight for what she believes, in this case that the ANXM should be allowed to choose if they want to stay or go back (GOD, still so stupid). By issue's end, he's given her the courage to voice her beliefs but he's also run afoul of the future's Kitty Pryde, who of course turned out to be Mystique's son Raze, who stabs Doop.
The "traveling through the margins" thing continues to be a pretty neat visual and a useful plot device but his love of Kitty still seems so sudden and thus so baffling that it's a little hard to get into this series. Making matters worse (for me) is the connection to BATTLE OF THE ATOM and that Doop's interference here is helping Kitty to step up for something so dumb (I'm all for people getting to choose their own fate except when their choice might break the entire time-space continuum. That's one of very few exceptions). Still, Lafuente's art is good and there's enough new here to at least make the book worth checking out.
Total Score: 3/5
Deadpool Annual 2
Hastings (w) and Camagni (a) and Milla (c) and Sabino (l)
The Chameleon is terrorizing Spider-Man, rapidly changing into seemingly innocent civilians in need of help before stabbing Spider-Man with a knife or a sedative and disappearing again. Deadpool, once he proves to Spider-Man he's really who he says he is, vows to help his "amazing friend." After Spider-Man is sedated by Chameleon and Deadpool throws Chameleon out a window, Deadpool drags Spider-Man into a closet to change clothes with him and allow him to rest. Pool takes up the Spider-Man identity for the day, foiling crimes and trying to out Chameleon. After a strange fight with the Master, a snake-based villain who is changed into a giant mouse, Chameleon appears and tries to sedate Deadpool. The real Spider-Man, wearing Deadpool's costume now, shows up to help and Chameleon tries to imitate him to confuse the gun-wielding true Deadpool. Deadpool figures it out, shoots the right Chameleon in the leg, and he and Spidey part amicably.
It's a fairly fun one-and-a-half size issue, one that doesn't require a whole lot of outside reading or a whole lot of knowledge of either character but is certainly entertaining enough to justify reading it. As a giant size issue, it's $4.99 and I can't fully endorse it at that price, as much as I love Christopher Hastings and as much as I like his Deadpool. It is fun writing and it is strong art but it very much is something of a throwaway book, fun to read once but probably never to be revisited. In other words, typical annual stuff.
Total Score: 4/5
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