How do you have zombies and screw it up this badly? The latest issue of Deadpool still has plenty of funny moments, but the overall story is severely lacking and features so many time jumps you'd think we were watching the show Heroes. Zing! Okay, so maybe I'm not as funny as Deadpool, but I think I could've woven a better yarn than this Deadpool.

Deadpool was being double-crossed the last time we checked in with him, as we learn the man who hired him to regain his zombie wife was really handing him over as payment since he was in debt to the doctor and couldn't pay the deal off. The doctor plans to use Deadpool's healing powers to forever feed his zombies. Can Deadpool manage to snake his way out of this predicament and come out on top?

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Most of the humor and best moments came from situations dealing with the zombies. A regular zombie film feasting becomes something more as the zombies realize that Deadpool doesn't taste very good at all. We also see Deadpool punt a head and giving the obligatory field goal hand signs. I like zombies…hell, I love them. I loved them in the last issue, but here that potential is just wasted and quickly thrown together and finished in only one issue. The book should've been spread across at least two issues (three counting the last one) and make the plot more believable and not just a series of quick cuts.

The biggest problem is that with all the jumps forward and backwards into time, it was hard concentrating on the plot and figuring where what situation went where. The book helps the reader out by giving convenient timetables, but it's still hard to accurately follow the story from one plot point to the next. The story isn't even really served all that well by the time jumps, as the moments could've been rearranged into chronological order and it would've still been the same story (maybe even a better one).

I'm also confused by the very tiny text boxes that Deadpool hears in his head when he is talking to himself. It's impossible to read with the naked eye, so I grabbed a magnifying glass to see what it said. To the best of my knowledge it was just gibberish…nothing more than random letters thrown together. Was it in a foreign language? Is there some hidden code I'm not seeing? Was it just a gag on me to see if I'd go out of my way to hurt my eyes to see? I wish I knew the answer if there is one.

If the tiny text is just a gag on me then it wouldn't be the first, as this issue felt like one large practical joke. It was a disappointment to say the least, but more so because the past issues have all been good. I'm hoping the next issue returns the status quo and gets back on track.

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