What I Bought 9/2/2025 - Part 1

According to the post office's website, my comics order arrived in the town 30 minutes away on Friday afternoon. By 3:30 a.m. Saturday, it was in my town. 4 hours later, it was back in the town 30 minutes away, only to be shipped out again 3 hours after that, arriving back here near noon. Which was, of course, too late for it to go out with the mailman on Saturday. So they just arrived yesterday evening. I get slower delivery due to understaffing due to Trump administration budget bullshit, but that sequence is just bizarre.

Deadpool #15, by Cody Ziglar, Gerry Duggan, and Sanshiro Kasama (writers), Roge Antonio, Andrea Di Vito, Matteo Lolli, and Hikaru Uesugi (artists), Guru-eFX and Yen Nitro (color artists), Joe Sabino (letterer) - Almost none of those characters appear in this comic.

I found a variant cover copy for less than half-price, so what the hell. Might as well see how this ends. Ziglar and Antonio continue the battle between Deadpool & Daughters and Death Grip, who seems to have a much firmer grip on his life. Guy takes an arrow in the mouth, another in the eye, stabbed with the magic sword in the heart. None of it kills him. Because somehow he coated his heart with pieces of the Muramasa Blade.

Yes, a sword that cancels out healing factors is somehow helping someone not die. It's handwaved as some combination of the sword and Death Grip's own magic, so that's the best we're going to get. It is being chipped away, although Antonio draws it like Deadpool was able to expose the upper half of the heart with his stab, which seems like it oughta be enough. Anyway, Ellie is able to fire magic energy out of their magic sword to win a beam struggle against Death Grip, then she and Deadpool stab him again, and this time he dies. Though Deadpool and Taskmaster shoot him in the head a lot to make sure. 

We never do figure out what's up with the oddly intelligent "Water Cooler Rat," and I still don't entirely understand Death Grip's deal. He wants to learn from death, or teach others, by killing them? I dunno. Preston somehow never showed up to beat Wade's ass for letting his daughter - who is also Preston's daughter, adoptive parents matter! - do merc gigs. But Deadpool has time to feel bad about Eleanor helping him kill a guy. Which, by Deadpool's standards, is actually the best parenting he can manage short of not being in his kid's life at all.

As for the extra stories. Ziglar and Di Vito do a comedy bit about Doug letting Princess outside, then trying to corral her before she causes major property damage or death. It's fine. I'd probably like it more if Doug had personality or characterization beyond referring to himself as 'ya boy'. Hell, I initially typed his name as "Dave", which tells you how memorable he is.

Duggan and Lolli's story is about Deadpool being interrupted by a merc trying to kill him to collect a reward. Except Deadpool put the hit on himself, because he feels most alive when fighting people in the same line of work as himself? I don't know if Kurami is an entirely new character, or someone Duggan introduced in a different book and is trying to create buzz for her here, but credit for bringing a metal container full of acid to dissolve Deadpool with. But she also describes Deadpool as a "rich assassin", so I have no idea when this is taking place. The last time he was rich was right after Secret Wars, and he pissed all that money away founding the Avengers. He probably owes Taskmaster alone millions after all the talk about "field rate" in Ziglar's run.

Sanshiro Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi's story is a little taste of what the Deadpool manga they're doing is like, I guess? The funniest bit was that it starts at the end of the comic and reads right to left, and opens with a gag of Deadpool being stuck in the pages. When you turn the page, it reads like you tore him in half, and after turning another page, you finally find his legs sticking out. Well, I thought it was clever, at least.