Maybe I was emotional that night when I read this comic (details will remain sketchy re: reasons of emotional responses), still the Deadpool comic (issue 18) written by Daniel Way and Art by Paco Medina kinda hit a nerve with me.
It was a uplifting and happy conclusion to a story arc that evolves around Deadpool trying to work out his next move (even for Deadpool and his conflicting split personalities a 'next' move is always an unkown), the guy is damaged mentally and of course physically (severally scared). It's a sympathy story for a guy that is messed up trying to do good (in his way). Although being a rogue character with split personalities and a motor mouth (sarcastic), underneath all that he just wants to be liked. So he tries to join the X-Men that are in exile (long story). A somewhat convoluted story of once known superheros trying desperately to retrieve their superhero status after media manipulation and pubic backlash (orchestrated by the evil guy Norman Osbourne who is now fabricated a legit oppression over the superhero community). Suffice to say the X-Men reject Deadpool as a new member. So he puts together a plan to convince them he is ok.
To cut a long story short the plan involves making himself look bad so they look good (so the media accepts the X-Men as hero's again), it works. He knows that he will never join the X-Men or ever be accepted in a societal sense. It's like his own acceptance of his character flaws and everything else wrong with him. So he just rolls with it and tries to do good (his way).
There is a moral in this arc somewhere, ambiguous, but with a character who has a mental disorder. It is a moral about expectations and acceptance that no matter what happens at the end of the day people (generally) want to see and do good; in all their different approaches. It's a respect to the rogue, the individual who does his (or her) thing and there is a method to their madness. Make sense? Who cares. I just love the idea that the complexities of life interact at various junction points, there is no straight line of expectations. In other words there is nothing better than ideas that evolve from chaos.
Just read the the series. Soon to buy in the MEC.research online (amazon) store
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