We looked at this very issue of this mini-series two months ago for Random Back Issues #42. Originally done as a digital release, then later released in physical copies, it's wedged in between the two halves of the Posehn/Duggan Deadpool run we looked at in Sunday Splash Pages #134 and 135.
After Agent Preston is moved from Deadpool's mind into an LMD, and Wade has taken revenge on Agent Gorman and gotten his money for killing all those undead presidents, Deadpool wants to take a break from insanity. Naturally, his vacation is interrupted by a job offer from Dracula (unfortunately still rocking the Final Fantasy villain remake he got during that X-Men event where Jubilee became a vampire.) Dracula wants Deadpool to retrieve a coffin.
During an incident in Greece involving a minotaur, a zebra, and two mopeds, the coffin breaks open revealing Shiklah, succubus queen of the undead. She's supposed to be Dracula's betrothed, to bring peace between their people (although Drac just wants control of her family's empire.) Naturally, she falls for the wacky merc who won't shut up and doesn't stay dead when she kisses him. Wade, despite insisting she's just a job, finds himself growing attracted to her wide-eyed interest in a world he's all-too familiar with.
Also, she's hot.
This is kind of a bonkers mini-series, where Duggan and Posehn throw every damn thing in here. Blade shows up, that stupid Thunderbolts team Deadpool was on with the Red Hulk, Punisher, and Elektra. HYDRA, AIM (with MODOK), Werewolf by Night and Frankenstein's Monster. Deadpool stabs someone with his hand. Not that the hand is holding a bladed weapon. He stabs them with the jagged bone of his severed hand.
The mini-series sets up Wade getting married in his ongoing series, which ultimately (after Civil War II) ended very badly. Because that's how things go for Deadpool. But it's a tremendous amount of fun getting to that point.
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