Healing Factor
Writer: Gail Simone
Artist: Udon
Gail Simone has always been one of my favorite comic writers, thanks to her incredible talent for getting in the head of a character and turning them into the most compelling version of themselves for readers. Her short, amazing run on Deadpool is no different.
Healing Factor pits the character against Black Swan, an assassin gifted with telepathy. The showdown between the two includes a bunch of other assassins, and cameos from some great characters (like Taskmaster again, yay!), but ultimately ends in a stunning showdown.
Simone turns Deadpool’s penchant for fourth-wall breaking and all-round weirdness into the antihero’s greatest strength, with a climactic battle where Deadpool’s personal hell is weaponized, so messed up that nobody else can handle it. It’s a great plot point centered around something only Deadpool could pull off.
