After Way's run finally ended, Marvel handed Deadpool over to Gerry Duggan and comedian Brian Posehn. Their first arc involved a necromancer named Michael, who resurrected all the dead Presidents in the hopes they would help America find its way. Instead, the angry old white men went berserk, trying to destroy the country. Deadpool, once again alone and hated by all, is hired by SHIELD agent Preston to take care of this problem so neither SHIELD or Captain America make the cable news for punching FDR or whatever. Preston is killed by Sorcery Enhanced Undead George Washington, and Michael saves her by placing her essence inside Deadpool's mind.
The first 25 issues revolve around two goals. One, get Preston out of Wade's head and into a body of her own, for both their sakes. Two, Wade is determined to hunt down Preston's boss, Agent Gorman, who has stiffed Wade on the money he was promised for killing all those Presidents.
These goals are complicated by a variety of factors. Finding Preston a body she's OK with being the obvious one. But also the fact that Deadpool's life is rarely quiet. They run up against a demon Deadpool pissed off in a "lost" inventory issue for his non-existent series in the '80s, where he was supposed to get Iron Man drunk, but rather than push Stark out of sobriety, Wade knocked him out and piloted the armor drunk himself. Credit for lateral thinking, at least.
After that, some things Deadpool tried very hard to forget, or was made to forget, came scrabbling out his past. Like how someone had been doping him and stealing his organs for years. And how he might have fathered a child during a brief hookup in another lost inventory issue from the '70s where he teamed up with Power Man and Iron Fist.
Note that I'm not saying either of those two is the father of the child. I'm also not saying they aren't. You'll have to find the comic and read it yourself.
While Mike Hawthorne draws most of the issues after the initial, President-killing arc (which is drawn by Tony Moore), all the inventory issues are done by Scott Koblish, in some pretty solid attempts to ape the art styles of the eras they're supposedly from. Hawthorne's got a good style for superheroics. Clean lines, good energy, knows how to use panels in a fight scene to act as distinct moments in a fight, but also make it clear how one panel leads to the next.
I first picked up issue 20, which was another of the inventory issues, my least favorite to be honest, since Kirby pastiche ain't really my thing. But the issue after that was when Gorman made his big play to be rid of Deadpool and Preston once and for all, and Deadpool reminds everyone how terrifying he can be when he puts his mind to it.
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