The first half of Posehn and Duggan's Deadpool run ended with Agent Preston's mind and soul being removed from Deadpool's mind and placed into a spiffy Life Model Decoy body, and with Wade finally receiving the money for re-killing the undead presidents, and him killing the turncoat Agent Gorman, who embezzled the money in the first place.
Having gotten his unwanted tenant out of his head, Wade's actually feeling a bit lonely. The second half of this run is him building a new network of friends and loved ones, then trying to figure out how to juggle what all those people expect of him. It actually kicks off in a mini-series, Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet, which we'll get to in a month or so. The end result, though, is that Deadpool meets Shiklah, a succubus who is next in line to rule over the Monster Metropolis below New York. Back in the main title, Wade and Shiklah get married (in an oversized issue that apparently set a record for most characters on a single cover).
After that, he finds the daughter he thought might have died in North Korea with her mother during an Original Sin tie-in (one big issue with the second half of the run versus the first is they go from no event tie-ins to about six straight months of event tie-ins). He gets inverted into a nonviolent "Zenpool" right as the X-Men all become assholes (I mean bigger assholes than usual) as part of Axis and try to kill the few remaining survivors of the attempt by North Korea and the guy harvesting Wade's organs to create their own, knockoff X-Men.
Wade's caught in a situation where he doesn't want to be a killer, because he'd like to try and be a parent to Eleanor (and a mentor to Evan Sabah Nur, the kid who might become the next Apocalypse some day). But Shiklah likes him because of his capacity for massive violence, and Zenpool wasn't massively effective against the Inverted X-Men. Then ULTIMATUM shows a complete lack of sound judgment and tries to mess with his loved ones again, and Wade goes John Wick on their asses.
Then Secret Wars cancels the book.
There's also a few funny one-off stories in here. Scott Koblish does another inventory issue, where Wade and Cable protect post-Howling Commandos, pre-SHIELD Nick Fury from time-traveling Hitler, plus one about the magic of "gracking", aka fracking using gamma energy, that involves Sarah Silverman teaming up with the at-the-time Thor creative team of Jason Aaron and Jason Latour to fight the minotaur that runs Roxxon these days.
I'm not making any of that up, that's actually part of the comic.
Plus a story where we find out the organ-harvesting, child-abducting asshole pumped Wade full of memory-erasing drugs and had him kill his own parents. OK, that's not actually funny. But Koblish drew it all in a send-up of Liefeld's style (including making sure to never draw feet), which I guess is supposed to be funny. I'm not judging. I can't draw feet, or hands. Shit's hard, OK?
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