One fun thing about having a celebrity comedian writing your comic book is that they’ll probably find ways to put their buddies into it. That’s what Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan have done in Deadpool #21 – and apparently earlier, but I just now finally recognized the name ‘Scott Adsit’ as the guy who played Pete Hornberger on 30 Rock. Now that there’s an Agents of SHIELD TV show, why not help get their friends parts on it? It’s all who you know, and Scott Adsit knows guys who can make him an actual Marvel Comics SHIELD agent.
Like so.
I will expect this casting to happen at once, especially since Phil Coulson himself shows up at the end of this issue (with a filthy pun, no less), and the cover of it has the flying car from the pilot that had a name that I forget but was probably “Betsy.”
Anyway, regardless of the fun-times of imagining Pete Hornberger as a spy, this latest issue has Deadpool finally trying to figure out how to get Agent Preston – the dead SHIELD agent whose mind has been magically transferred into his brain for safe-keeping by The Portly Wizard Michael (and I really hope “The Portly Wizard” becomes his official handle in his Marvel Handbook entry) – back out into her own body. Dr. Strange informs them that there’s no easy fix, and that the next step would just be a stopgap to get her out of Wade Wilson’s head and stuck somewhere else for a while. Agent Adsit, friend of Preston, is on the job of whipping up a Life Model Decoy for her, only to find out that someone’s already made one and is using it for various criminal undertakings and apparently some kind of Second Life games involving raking leaves for people. Turns out that guy is Agent Gorman, a jerk who recently stiffed Deadpool of his fee for killing lots of zombie presidents (also The Portly Wizard’s fault) for SHIELD. Gorman, learning that Preston lives, has put a $10 million bounty on Wade’s head, and the first merc up for bids is Crossbones, who runs into him outside a Tyler Perry movie that Preston made him see. Incidentally, Yvette Nicole Brown should play Agent Preston and maybe Judah Friedlander could play The Portly Wizard.
After the dark turns and retcons of the last arc (and the awesome sauce of the Jack Kirby “inventory” issue), what should follow is a jamboree of Deadpool running afoul of a lot of random Marvel thugs like Paladin, Batroc The Leaper and Sabertooth, and that’s right in the Wade Wilson Wacky Wheelhouse (TM). With Scott Adsit playing triple agent with Coulson, this new arc of Deadpool vs. SHIELD promises to be a good time fun-ride. Also, the longtime Deadpool nerd in me really wants the topic of Copycat – Vanessa Carlyle, Wade’s ex-girlfriend – to come up with Sabertooth, since Victor Creed gutted her in a gorilla cage at the zoo and let her bleed out way back in his original series. That really should be a sore spot between them… but I guess nobody likes to remember Copycat. Wait, I’m being a passive aggressive continuity nerd, sorry.
Mike Hawthorne seems to be having a fun time with the art, which serves the story well. His work is very bright and crisp, and sometimes he gets to draw three Deadpools in painter uniforms smacking each other around like the Three Stooges, or Preston as the Virgin Mary to Wade’s sombrero-sporting Baby Jesus. Working on a Deadpool book has to got to be a dream job for the artist, and if it ain’t, it should be.
So let’s got on it, ABC. Agent Scott Adsit on Agents of SHIELD. Just don’t hire Lutz. He’s the worst.
