Secret Agent Deadpool

Writer: Christopher Hastings

Artist: Salva Espin

Deadpool is a character who works better when he’s put in the most outlandish scenarios imaginable. So when Deadpool murders a James Bond parody and takes over his identity in the first issue of Secret Agent Deadpool, you know it’s gonna be good.

Like a lot of Deadpool’s best arcs, Secret Agent Deadpool is a silly and basic premise. But it continues to one-up itself in every issue, to the point things are so off-the-rails you can barely remember how it got there to begin with. Watching Deadpool throw himself into a story riddled with spy movie cliches is a delight, with fancy cars decked out with gadgets, secret island bases, laser beams, and every other thing you remember from every James Bond movie ever made.

Sure, Secret Agent Deadpool isn’t the usual superhero fare you get in a Deadpool comic, and surprisingly it has less violence than the character usually engages with, but it works nonetheless. It just goes to show that Deadpool’s humor and cavalier approach to any situation is what makes him such a great character, regardless of what genre he finds himself in.