by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

Official Description:
WHO’LL LET THE DOG OUT? WHO WHO WHOOO?!  Uh-oh…things are not so great for Deadpool right now. Understatement of the century, pal. He, along with his paramour, Valentine Vuong, and his giant symbiote dog, Princess, has been captured by the assassin association known as the Atelier! With Lady Deathstrike’s help, Valentine and Deadpool were able to break out of their prison cell and managed to kill the Atelier’s leader, the Horned Emperor. The couple that slays together, stays together! The only downside is that with the physical vessel of the Horned Emperor’s spirit destroyed, the mantle has fallen to Valentine, who has been subsumed by their spirit. Now the possessed Valentine has turned their attention to crushing any threats to their new power, Deadpool included. Either way, this is going to end in heartbreak. Wait, what???

Creative Team:
Alyssa Wong/Writer
Luigi Zagaria/Artist
Matt Milla/Color Artist
VC’s Joe Sabino/Letterer
Tom Muller/Design
Martín Cóccolo & Neeraj Menon/Cover Artists
Pete Woods/Variant Cover Artist

Deadpool is a graphically bloody mess of violence and gross innuendo. 

*Please note that much of the following paragraph is an editorial rant but I do eventually get back to reviewing Deadpool #10, I swear*

If you’re cool with that, then Hello again and welcome back! The joyous ridiculousness and roaring gore of Deadpool continue with Deadpool #10. We’re at the very end of the Atelier arc which has been a delight of uncomfortability–Particularly so to those who are most delightful to make uncomfortable. You know those wheedling pearl-clutching ammosexuals who inexplicably and laughably ignorantly use Punisher and Deadpool stickers on their lifted pickups also displaying stickers that bravely taunt you to “come take them [guns]” in Greek? You know, those who wail against diversity and progressivism and use religion to back up their racism and homophobia? You know those who subtly threaten violence against those who fail to goose-step along with them and kneel before the cross and stand for the flag, so very frighteningly nationalistically, but somehow they’re totally cool with displaying the confederate flag, apologizing that it’s not about racism, it’s about their southern heritage and states’ (they probably get that apostrophe wrong) rights? You know, those people who choose the jarringly out of touch website Bounding into Comics because of, rather than in spite of, its angry comments section. 

Anyway, this current run of Deadpool must have certainly sent those types running back to the hills because OMG, Deadpool’s lover not only identifies as gender-fluid and uses they/them pronouns, but Deadpool makes it quite clear that his sweetie Valentine Vuong sports lady parts up top and man parts down below. Newsflash: If you think about it, all sex is always icky and gross. Maybe quit yucking Deadpool’s yum. Because our dude Wade is head over heels, like wow, infatuated with Valentine. 

Which makes us, rolling into the scenario depicted in the official description above, reasonably worried that this newish character Valentine is gonna get fridged. Naturally Deadpool is trying his best to get through the fog of the Horned Emperor, asking Valentine to snap out of it. But can he do so in time before true hard cores Alcaudón, the Shrike and her wife, the Eldritch Horror “Ms. Gingko” can slay Valentine and assume the mantle of The Horned Emperor themselves? Can Deadpool prevail, or is their love doomed as prophesied in the official description? 

And perhaps to some even more importantly, what of our B story? Princess the symbiont “dog” was locked up by the Atelier and is in need of rescuing. Can Lady Deathstrike (stay tuned for our upcoming interview with Kelly Hu) defeat her brother and rescue Princess or will “man’s best tumor” go the way of Old Yeller and get fridged herself? 

This series of Deadpool seems to be over, but does this mean a reset or will the next Deadpool series pick up with more of the delight that Alyssa Wong has brought us? 

Rating:
ComicsOnline gives Deadpool #10 4 out of 5 tears, but are they conservative tears or Deadpool tears? READ THIS BOOK AND FIND OUT! 

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