RageLite review - Deadpool 2

Deadpool was a massive success for Fox so naturally a sequel was greenlit, and given how successful it was, the sequel was gifted a larger budget of $110m. But does bigger equal better?

Well, critically it managed an impressive 83% Rotten Tomatoes rating with an average 7.05/10 and an audience score of 85% with an average 4.08/5. Including its re-releases, it managed to make $785m at the box office. I am only talking about the original theatrical version for this review. Once Upon a Deadpool never interested me and it didn’t get a 12A (the PG-13 equivalent) rating in the UK anyway.

Mini Review - Deadpool

Time for a series of mini reviews that may not make the light of day until September. Happy September if that is the case. But let’s talk about the Merc with the mouth, Deadpool. At time of writing, which is in November 2017, a teaser trailer for Deadpool 2 has just released, and it’s funny as hell.

X-men Month - Mini Review: X-men Origins Wolverine

If there’s one thing everyone knows about Wolverine it’s that he has a mysterious past. He doesn’t remember it and ultimately it’s the key to his character development as he finds out answers piece by piece. Unfortunately, they felt the need to give us an origin story instead.

X-men Origins Wolverine came out in 2009, again, 3 years after the last X-men movie (the Spider-man movies were released in 2002, 2004 and 2007) and despite the large gap, the writing was already underway in 2004. Man, they sure took their time with this one. Gavin Hood was chosen as director despite not being a comic book fan. *sighs* You know, with Brett Ratner he wasn’t a first choice because the actual director had to leave. Here, they deliberately chose a non-comic fan to helm a comic book adaptation. Be afraid

It made money about $370million, but it was blasted by critics holding 38% on Rotten tomatoes, a massive step down from even X-men 3, 6.7 on IMDb and 40% on Metacritic. What do I think? Let’s take a look.

4 Issue Test #18 - Uncanny Avengers

Now if there’s one facet of the Marvel Universe they’ve expanded since Secret Wars, it’s the Avengers, there are 6 different Avengers titles out there, each with a unique roster. Those titles are: All New All Different Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, New Avengers, The Ultimates, Squadron Supreme and A-Force. I’m going to be looking at Uncanny Avengers and All New All Different Avengers. I’m picking up more than enough Marvel titles for this to suffice.

So, I suppose I’d better mention the cast of this book. Steve Rogers: Former Captain America, he’s not an active hero in this book. The Human Torch, former member of the Fantastic 4, but with the Richards family no longer present thanks to Secret Wars and Ben Grimm chumming up with the Guardians of the Galaxy, he’s in this title. Filling our quota for mutants (the Uncanny Avengers aka the Unity Division was initially a route to peace between mutants and humans) we have the power absorber Rogue and the merc with the mouth Deadpool. In the magic-users’ category, we have Doctor Voodoo. I don’t know who he is. In the Inhumans category we have Synapse, I have no f*cking clue who she is and Quicksilver, who was retconned into being an inhuman to screw over Fox.

Before we begin in earnest, I think it also fair to look at Uncanny Avengers Annual #1. I’ll be brief, it’s rare that a series will get an issue this early in its run. But there’s a reason for it here: it’s a marketing gimmick to get people interested in the Scarlet Witch comic. Bear in mind, Scarlet Witch is not a member of the Uncanny Avengers. In fact this story centres around magic users and barely features them. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS! With that said, let’s dig into the real content.

4 Issue Test #16 - Deadpool

Marvel’s universe has changed, its entire line is being slowly relaunched (I know, this is about the 10^th time now) and I figured it’s time for me to properly embrace the Marvel line and take a look at a few of their new series. And by a few we’ll be looking at titles for 4 of the next 5 months.

We start with the Merc with the mouth himself, Deadpool. Created as in intentional ripoff of Teen Titan’s Deathstroke. Wade Wilson was eventually differentiated from Slade with a few elements of character and back story. He was a part of the Weapon X programme, the same scheme that gave Wolverine his powers and was given regenerative powers from it. The problem is he had cancer and the treatment regenerates his cancer as well as his normal cells.