Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Why such a high rating, then?  

First of all, I liked the Prelude much more than the actual Deadpool Corps series.   Let me explain: the Prelude to Deadpool Corps explains how Deadpool gets his team together.   Which is by going into alternate dimensions and picking up Dogpool, Kidpool, Headpool and Lady Deadpool.    It was fun because, for the most part, you didn't know anything about the characters.   In fact, Lady Deadpool might have been the only established character, and you knew nothing about her, really.

This is the origin story for alternate Deadpools.   And it's fun.   

However, this all is about some cosmic Elders who need the Deadpools to save the multiverses so get Deadpool to get his team together.   I'm not a fan of this: Deadpool doesn't work well as a savior of the universe.    However, unlike on Kelly's run, he isn't like, 'I'm gonna be a superhero!'   He just wants money and power and sees a way to get it, so this was at least bearable, and even got fun by the end of the series. 

Like Merc With a Mouth, it felt like a full series of a TV show rather than a mini-series.   That is, it had an extended arc, but a definite, and set, beginning, middle and end. 

Also, the Deadpool Family one-shot was just amazing!   Including new stories about Kidpool, Lady Deadpool co-starring Headpool, and Dogpool, it also threw in Garden State Slaughter, the backup story to X-Men Unlimited.  It was supposed to be in an earlier Deadpool Classic - and I've noticed they've doubled up on another issue as well, but later on - but I couldn't find it in digital format, so I read the synopsis and shrugged it off.  I shouldn't have been so quick to do so.   Garden State Slaughter is amazing, and I may track down Deadpool Family as a digital comic just to keep this story. 

It pulled quite an emotional punch, and showed Deadpool trying to do something right.   It just worked for me.   The whole thing.   For one thing, the setup was more realistic and felt more in character.   The ending was more dramatic, and showed how mercenary he was. 

Anyway, yes, I liked this much more than I expected to given the first couple of issues, and I'm very pleased that I just soldiered on through the ones that really weren't working for me.   It just started working at some point. 

Anyway, some images to show just how fun this got.   Deadpool/Lady Deadpool?   They think not!

I feel like this explains all of Deadpool's strategies. 

I feel like this explains a lot when it comes to both Deadpool and Lady Deadpool:

Both Deadpool and Lady Deadpool and Headpool get some therapy.   It's pretty amazing. 

The ending to this one - with Deadpool - is the real payoff, and it's a short extra story in one of the comics.

Kidpool in Deadpool Family gets a robot. 

And this is why he shouldn't have a robot:

Dogpool is a bad dog: