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Deadpool: With Great Power Comes Great Coincidence (Cover image via Marvel Comics)

5. Deadpool: With Great Power Comes Great Coincidence

Sometimes, Deadpool can get a bit old. It’s rough but true. After all, Deadpool’s whole schtick as a superhero of sorts is that he’s self-aware. When handled correctly, that’s just enough to make for a refreshing take on the genre from inside the Marvel compound. Under clumsy direction, however, Deadpool breaks the fourth wall so many times that you want him to just sit down and take a break.

Things aren’t always that bad, though. Perhaps, with a good writer, the answer is to go so far into that self-referential nature that you come out the other side with some really good and really, really fun. Something like Deadpool: With Great Power Comes Great Coincidence.

If you were to casually pick up this issue of Deadpool vol. 1, #11, you might initially think there’s been a mistake. Inside, it looks an awful lot like a classic issue of Spider-Man’s. Look a little closer, though, and you’ll see a lower-resolution Deadpool there, along with his roommate, Blind Al. An even closer look will reveal some very un-Spider-Man dialogue, too.

So, what’s happening? Essentially, Deadpool and Blind Al have tried to teleport away from yet another superhero fight. As the issue opens, they meet up with Uata the Watcher, who tells them that they’ve messed up. Instead of moving only through space, the pair has also moved through time. They’re now in 1967, right in the middle of Amazing Spider-Man #47.

Eventually, they have to take on the personas of Peter Parker and Aunt May to make it back to their own time. That doesn’t stop either Deadpool or Blind Al from making some cutting observations about the squeaky-clean Peter Parker or his life. That’s made all the better by the fact that much of the art and plot is cut and pasted from the original Amazing Spider-Man. Thanks to writer Joe Kelly, this is one of the funniest Deadpool tales out there.