- Written by: Benjamin Percy
- Art by: Geoff Shaw
- Colors by: Alex Sinclair
- Letters by: VC’s Joe Sabino
- Cover art by: Geoff Shaw, Alex Sinclair (cover A)
- Cover price: $4.99
- Release date: February 11, 2026
Wade Wilson: Deadpool #1, by Marvel on 2/11/26: Deadpool infiltrates a drug-muling farm op in a brutal survival mission against heartland thugs, chasing self-destruction before a helping hand from the future pulls him toward heroism.
First Impressions
Finishing this comic felt like chowing down a greasy burger: fun bursts of flavor, but a heavy aftertaste. The gore-pun combo had me smirking early, yet Wade’s gloom dragged it down quick. The issue left me amused by the absurdity, annoyed by the draggy vibes overall..
Plot Analysis (SPOILERS)
In Wisconsin, Deadpool hides in a cow (???) during a drug smuggling setup with bricks stuffed in heifers for Canada. He explodes out, guns blazing with “steak-out” and “Swiss cheese” puns while blasting hayseeds. They shoot his brain, run him over with a combine, drown him in silage; he tastes cancer, hits the poppy field, blows up, burns all night, pig gnaws him before full regen.
He reports to Hammerhead at Pancake Palace, spilling gory tale for payment. Hammerhead blasts him as a freak needing a shrink, shoots him point-blank when Wade begs danger. Wade ponders his lifelong “what’s wrong with me” station in life and admits not fitting hero or villain molds.
At Blind Al’s Bushwick dump, she rags on his bloody costumes, moping, puking bullets, soap opera obsessions, cat-fart stink. She recalls his low point months ago and urges inner healing over wrecking himself recklessly. Wade’s banter quickly fades as his excuses himself for a “romantasy club.” He hits a Manhattan rooftop to shrink his pain by gazing at humanity’s anthill.
The sudden flash of his kid calling him dad, causes tears to flow. Suddenly, prophetic notes fall from the sky detailing taxi crashes, dancing fat man, and pigeon splat. Final note: 3:53 PM, clown terrorists seize F train, 271 die unless Wade saves them. He grins at a chance to be a hero, ready to botch it big.
Writing
The pacing kicks off like a barn explosion, racing from that ridiculous cow ambush straight through the poppy field inferno with non-stop manic energy that keeps you flipping pages. It hits a wall later though, when Wade’s rooftop brooding and those stacked narration boxes about his pain slow everything to a crawl, creating this jarring whiplash between frenzy and funk. The dialogue is pure gold, with Deadpool’s “cheesed to meet you” gems and heroin yogurt zingers landing like perfect merc-with-a-mouth chaos. Overall structure holds a solid arc from job bloodbath to Blind Al nagging to that prophecy hook, even if the hurt-dumps feel a bit overboxed.
Art
Art clarity shines brightest in the gore moments, like that brain shot warping Wade’s face into hilarious horror or the rotors dicing him up in crystal-sharp detail you can almost smell. Composition grabs you with epic farm sprawls that swallow the chaos whole, then flips to vertigo-inducing rooftop isolation making Wade feel tiny against the city anthill. Colors punch hard too, reds gushing like hot rivers in every blood spray while blues ice down his despair scenes deep and moody. Diner crowd shots fuzz just a touch, but pun panels twist expressions so wildly they amp the laughs perfect.
Character Development
Wade’s pain-chasing drive roots deep in those cancer scars and his twisted healing factor curse, turning every job into this masochist trap that feels spot-on for the degenerate. Blind Al brings real gruff-love consistency with her laundry rants and pleas to fix the inside hurt, grounding his madness just right. You relate hard to Wade’s quip-shield cracking open raw gut moments, like the kid tears; it hits human. Hammerhead stays goon-flat and the kid flash yanks sudden heart, but they serve the vibe.
Originality & Concept Execution
This deathwish gig angle twists the “unhinged” merc premise fresh, leaning into self-harm jobs that bite way harder than standard chaos. The F-train clown prophecy executes huge stakes gold, proving itself real before dropping that 271-death hero hook without a whiff of cheese. Farm dairy puns deliver on the wild “dangerous” promise with absurd flair. Regen tropes echo old hat a bit, but that end tease slays enough to forgive.
Positives
That cow slaughter sequence stands tallest here, exploding with pun-drenched chaos where Deadpool’s “steak-out” cracks sync perfectly with gore-splattered art and rocket pacing that devours your dollar in one visceral, page-turning rush you can’t fake. Then those prophecy papers drop like magic, proving themselves real with spot-on predictions before hooking the hero pivot so clean and original it feels like a genius twist straight from the unhinged promise on the cover. Blind Al’s rants add this witty, consistent layer too, cutting through Wade’s gloom with gruff love that grounds the madness and makes the whole mess hit deeper, way better than your standard sidekick nag.
Negatives
Those endless pain narration loops choke the rooftop scenes hard, stacking boxes that bloat the structure like leftover silage and drag pacing into a mopey funk nobody signed up for in a Deadpool book. Thug fodder and regen cycles spin so stale they feel like week-old farm slop, missing any fresh stakes to make the violence pop beyond recycled tropes we have seen a million times. And the kid-dad tearjerker shoves raw emotion in abruptly, jarring the quip rhythm and motivation flow right when the issue needs smooth chaos, not forced heart-tugs.
About The Reviewer: Gabriel Hernandez is the Publisher & EIC of ComicalOpinions.com, a comics review site dedicated to indie, small, and mid-sized publishers.Follow @ComicalOpinions on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
The Scorecard
Writing Quality (Clarity & Pacing): [3/4]
Art Quality (Execution & Synergy): [3/4]
Value (Originality & Entertainment): [1/2]
Final Verdict
Wade Wilson: Deadpool #1‘s bloody pun rush through that farm meat-grinder and the clown doom tease deliver real kicks worth your time if twisted Wade pain is what you’re looking for. Trope mud and mopey dumps stall the full glory potential of the issue, keeping it from true shelf-queen status in a crowded pull list. Grab it if Deadpool’s dark spiral grabs you by the throat; otherwise, it idles comfy on the pass pile without breaking your bank.
7/10
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