In this issue, we switch from what looks like Deadpool's past and the present. Deadpool is wandering around the city but he doesn't know who he is. He talks to three homeless people (a vet, an ex-burlesque girl, and a drunk) and even fights off some guys that come to hassle them. When they are on the street, Weasel walks by and recognizes Deadpool and approaches him.

In this issue, Weasel is trying to help Deadpool remember who he is. When he sees a photo of Syrin, he finally starts remembering. Then, on the news, Deadpool sees that there are a bunch of imposter Deadpool's out there pretending to be him! Those flashbacks weren't his past, they were the imposters. When he goes to an awards show, all the imposters are there. They all get on stage and start fighting. Just when they begin to make a plan to form a team, T-Ray shows up.

In this issue, we pick right up where we left off- Deadpool and T-Ray are about to face off. T-Ray tells Deadpool that he was the one that brought Deadpool back to life. One of the Deadpool's kills off the other three and then shoots Deadpool through the middle which takes out a chunk large enough to make him collapse. T-Ray and the last imposter Deadpool grab the dead team and head out of the city. In the graveyard where Deadpool was buried, T-Ray tells him that all those other Deadpools were different personalities that Deadpool had. By taking them out one by one, the leaders of Project X were extinguishing him. When T-Ray gives him something called a "gemini star" Deadpool can summon any other personality- like an inner child, or a woman. Then Weasel and the three homeless people show up with an angry mob of armed 7th graders. T-Ray takes the gemini star back and realizes that Deadpool broke it... this causes T-Ray to absorb different Deadpool personalities. Which means, that Deadpool really IS Wade Wilson. T-Ray never really was after all!


Favorite lines:
"Go back to dumb, do not collect $100."-Deadpool to T-Ray

"Where's here? Playboy mansion? Denny's? If it's Denny's let's say its my birthday and I'll get a free lunch. If not, let's go somewhere else. Like home. Home is good."-Deadpool

The Pink Heist by Adam El Shalakany was such a fun read! I was laughing out loud on almost every page. From very early on, I decided that it definitely had a similar humorous tone as Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, so of course I loved every single second of it!

If you're a Hitchhikers fan, stop right here and go pick up this book!

Full disclosure: I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my rating in any way.

My thoughts:
The last line of the synopsis is key, "Read on if you like to laugh." This book was absolutely hysterical!

I was chuckling on almost every single page, but one scene specifically made me laugh to the point of tears!

A quick backstory; in the virtual world, there's a scene where Zenbot locks Mr. Qruise in a warehouse and tells him to make tea before he returns. Qruise ends up pulling out electrical wires and using his clothing to start a fire to heat the tea. But the fire gets out of control very quickly and Qruise almost dies.

Later this happened and I just couldn't stop laughing:
"Mr. Qruise, as my pupil I believe you should accompany us. There is always a lesson to be found, in the clean and dirty."
"Yeah, yeah. I remember your lessons. Didn't work so well for me with the damned tea."
"I went back to the warehouse, in Woshu, looking for you. The tea was burnt but you achieved what I asked of you. Though to be honest you may have made a bit too much fire. Too much ying Mr Qruise. I believe this next lesson will be to focus on the yang."

Needless to say, the writing style was right up my alley! The plot was interesting and always kept me guessing at what would happen next. The pacing of the story was perfect and there was never a dull moment, even during the slower bits between the larger action scenes.

There were so many elements of the story that I found incredibly interesting, whether that was the virtual world, the space race, or the Blasticore (which was a creature that takes the shape of whatever you're afraid of, but actually looks like a bunny if you can overcome your fear), or anything in-between!

Then there were the characters... The main characters were all so wonderfully developed. I really loved each and every one of them! I'd love to read another book about their adventures.

My only slight complaint was that I had an early edition of the book, so there were many formatting, punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors. However, understanding that this was an early version, I didn't let this get to me. :)


My favorite passages:
...the exoplanet's name is Disappear. Which is why throughout the 'verse when someone says they're going to disappear you can never really know what they mean. These statements are usually followed by questions as to whether the 'D' is capitalized or not.

Calling the GBG a bar is an exaggerated compliment to the run down old saloon, with its creaky broken swinging doors, bad alcohol, bad service and even worse clientele.

"...So now we're all on the same page, let's forget the plan and get this bomb out of my noggin and let bygones be bygones, what do you say, Mancy? I've always said you're a wonderfully rational person, for as long as I've known you, these past few hours."

He made rude hand gestures to the both of them and exited the room. A few moments later he re-entered the room picked up a bottle of rum and made his final exit in a huff.

The swearing was followed almost immediately with screams in the unified dialect of pain and fear, "Arrgghhhh!!!"


My final thoughts:
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. If you enjoy stories set in space with a hysterical cast of characters, you have to give this one a go!

In this issue, Deadpool has The Rhino attached to his car key ring while he goes off for another job- to protect a disco singer, The Dazzler from someone that has been sending her hate mail. When their job is a success, Deadpool goes home and puts The Rhino in a hamster ball. When The Rhino breaks out, he attacks Deadpool's ankles so Deadpool flushes him. Then Deadpool finds out that to see the man that infected his brain, he has to go to Germany.

In this issue, Cullodean and Montgomery discuss whether Deadpools quest is really one that is worth dying for. Meanwhile, Deadpool is waking up next to Siryn- who is actually Typhoid Mary using an image inducer. When Wade realizes what has happened, he's sick and can't get home to shower soon enough. Luckily, this incident has made him think that he has something better to do rather than showing up to T-Ray's Golden State Park meetup (but that feeling doesn't last long). When Al calls to tell Weasel she's worried about Deadpool, Weasel teleports right over. Unfortunately, while he did that, Deadpool was teleporting to Weasels place where he sees that Weasels tracking program shows Weasel at Deadpools house- and Deadpool is not pleased.

Deadpool goes to meet T-Ray and, of course, they fight.

In this issue, we get a glimpse inside "The Box" for the first time where AL is begging Weasel to just sit down and stay quiet so Deadpool will let them out. However, she also tells him that the door is never locked, but that it isn't the lock that makes the prison. Al then tells Weasel about how she had escaped once, just to make it to a man named Tommy's house and find Deadpool already there...When Al and Weasel get out of the box, Weasel leave the house with the dog while Al stays behind.

Meanwhile, 1) Deadpool is still laying blanked under the show and ice T-Ray left behind during the fight, 2) there is a man looking for Deadpool, and 3) T-Ray is running around saying he beat Deadpool.

Deadpool finanlly wakes up and Zoe shows up and offers to show Deadpool the rest of his life.

In this issue, Zoe tells Deadpool that she can show him that he's got what it takes to be a hero. Deadpool doesn't agree to go with her until he realizes he has no other option. Before he knows it, they've made it to Landau Luckman & Lake. Deadpool is stuck in what appears to be a waiting room with a quiet and nervous looking guy who's head ends up exploding and Deadpool turns to look at the reader and says, "This is not my fault!" Later we find out that the guys name is Herbert, and that the head explosion thing is common, but Deadpool now thinks that it was his fault and that he has a special power. While wandering the facility, Deadpool come across a room accidentally where two people are monitoring a large green thing that is in a tube of liquid with wires attached to him. We soon find out that the green thing is actually yellow, she is called "Doris" and she has broken free. When Deadpool goes to kill her to protect the people, he is told not to because Doris is priceless because she is the "pinnacle of photoreactive bio-ordnance engineering"

Meanwhile, Al is debating whether or not she is going to make a run for it be decides to stay to clean and cook for when Deadpool gets back hom. Todd, a robotic man, is up in the woods in Canada chopping wood when Ajax shows up and begins torturing him. Good ends up giving Ajax Deadpool's name....

Favorite lines:
"In case you missed it, I just got my fine chiseled buttocks handed to me on a stick."-Deadpool

"Oh, @%#* Toto... We REALLY overshot Kansas this time."-Deadpool

"Back to LL&L where our hero is lost, lost & lost..."-narrator

"In the words of the immortal snagglepuss...Exit, stage #@*$! right... Don't you know?! *sigh* Amateurs."-Deadpool

Favorite frame: When Deadpool looks out at the reader and says, "This is not my fault!"

In this issue, there is something weird going on between Al and Deadpool... Meanwhile at LL & L, Deadpool has signed on to be their employee, even though a few people are still hesitant about it. Deadpool and his "assistant" Bullseye are off on an assignment. After the main fighting, Bullseye calls Deadpool out- he says Deadpool is thinking too much, that he doesn't really know who he is.

Back at the Hellhouse, the employees are making a lot of money now that Deadpool is away. They're also cutting way back on the destruction that Deadpools mischief would normally cause. However, a few of the people miss Deadpool. Suddenly, Ajax busts in looking for Deadpool.

Favorite line:

"I don't trust any animal that has more storage space than I do naked."-Deadpool

"Who are you talking to here? Can I pull this off... I'm the master of disaster! The King of Chaos! Devourer of Pudding Pops! I'll pull the tag off of any mattress in Greece, man!"-Deadpool

In this issue, Overboss Dixon demands that Culloden bring Deadpool in to brief him on the Mithras Directive, even though Culloden says he isn't ready. Later, we find out that there is an alien life form coming to earth that will change the course of history and that Deadpool is an integral part of its journey because he is the Mithras (the ancient deity known as 'the light before the sun'). Monty "looks forward" (which is a very big risk for him to take) and tells Deadpool that three events will soon happen to him. If these things do happen, Deadpool may finally believe that he is their Mithras.

Meanwhile, there is still something weird going on between Al and Deadpool, but toward the end of the issue, they take steps toward bringing things back to normal. Deadpool is saying that Al can consider herself "a free..." but before he finishes that sentence, his teleport switches on and he didn't do it.

Also in this issue, Ajax has moved on from the Hellhouse and goes to find Killbrew (his creator) in the Swiss Alps.