'Deadpool & Cable: Split Second' #1 is primarily a bunch of jokes strung together, so the plot is secondary or beside the point anyway.

In contrast, most of Deadpool and Cable's reunion has backgrounds that are too empty.ĭeadpool's breaking of the fourth wall makes the information dumps in the captions easier to take, but the plot already feels both thin and convoluted. The scene featuring the Hydra minions' celebration is a well-composed illustration of overlapping bodies which doesn't lose the focus on Bob in the foreground. Brown's faces have the necessary elasticity for comedy and his pacing is strong, too. Similarly, the short scene with Emily Preston has some great jokes about parenting and Jim Charalampidis' colors are especially funny and vivid for the domestic interiors. It's too bad she drops out of the picture and is content to play second fiddle to Deadpool's career. The identical expressions of befuddlement on her and the sacrificial goat's faces are hilarious. The scene with Shiklah, Deadpool's wife, is funnier than any other scene, mostly because it's unexpected and bizarre and Shikah can keep up with Deadpool better than Cable.

Here, he plays a poor second and straight man to Deadpool's antics. All the action sequences do have a lot of energy in them, though, and Brown's sense of fun and fondness for Deadpool come through.Ĭable worked best as the gruff father figure to the angst-filled adolescents of X-Force. Charalampidis attempts to clean things up with a predominately red and gray palette, but this lack of hue range also flattens the backgrounds. Fabian Nicieza and Reilly Brown's 'Deadpool & Cable: Split Second' #1 reunites the two eponymous characters, who first met in the pages of 'New Mutants' and 'X-Force.' Brown and Nicieza open with an elongated, cluttered action tableau, dotted with Deadpool's witticisms and also a projectile head gushing blood from the neck wound, accurately setting the tone for what's to come.īrown's panel layouts have a lot slanted gutters in the first and last scenes of 'Deadpool & Cable: Split Second' #1, but - instead of subtly making the action look more exciting - they're too flashy and just make it harder to follow.

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