*First off, let me just come right out and say that art is this comic is horrible! I understand Eric Canete is supposed be some god when it comes to animation, that he was a disciple of the innovative Peter Chung when working on Aeon Flux. Well newsflash ladies and gentlemen: just because youre a great animator doesnt necessarily mean youre a great illustrator, especially since animation, by its very definition, requires movement, while illustration doesnt. And Im sorry, but Canetes illustrations are just bad. Sure at times, looks okay, albeit in a highly stylized form, but theres only so much distortion you can stomach. And it looks especially bad whenever he gives us perspective shots of figures coming at the panel that look as though were seeing them through a fish-eye lens which is quite often. Other times, you can barely tell what the hell is going on because its so sketchy.
*However, if there is one good thing about Canetes style, its at least distinctive enough to draw our attention to it--especially away from Joe Kellys script. On the surface, its a rather simple, straight-forward, done in one story: Deadpool gets hired by Kravens wife, Sasha, and daughter, Ana, to distract Spider-Man long enough for Ana Kravinoff to kidnap Mattie Franklin. The problem is, Kelly has to be funny and outlandish since the Merc with a Mouth is involved, and you would think that the guy responsible for making Wade Wilson what he is today could pull it off. But you would be wrong!
*Oh, sure, some of it is amusing, such as such as the build-up towards Deadpool to whip out his MammaGeddon or the mother of all Yo Momma jokes, or using Lady Stilt-Man to poke fun at the trend of female villains adopting male villains monikers, abut much of the time, the humor felt so incredibly forced. References to Geoff Johns and Blackest Night, Deadpools crack about web-fluid as a euphemism for *********ion, Dead pools angels and devils (a joke he used back in issue #576 for Spider-Man, by the way), the mugging by editors in the editor boxes, and the repeated BlahblahblahInsertWordsBlahBlahBlah all just reeked of desperation on Kellys part.
*At least I felt semi-intrigued about Sasha and Anas plans involving Mattie Franklin and how this could possibly tie-in to their overall revenge against Spider-Man. Not to mention, given Madame Webs close association with Mattie, theres definitely a sense she feels that shes betrayed her being that she was forced by Ana to help in finding her. Although, the drawback to this is that, unless youre familiar with the third Spider-Woman, its probably not going to mean much.
