Because publishers want you to buy their product every month, comics are typically serial in nature. However, occasionally (and more often nowadays than ever before) publishers launch a comic title that is only meant to last for one issue. While ongoing series often have multiple chances to hook in new readers, the comics highlighted in this ongoing investigations only had One-Shot At Greatness!
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Date: September 2011
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Stuart Moore
Artist: Shawn Crystal
A dilpadiated Shi’ar Stalker is loose on Earth, searching for Jean Grey and killing everything in its path. Luckily for the city of Albuquerque, Wolverine is there to intercept the menacing robot. But, even the ferocious X-Man can’t subdue the automaton because it keeps teleporting a few feet away before he can destroy it. So, Logan sets out to find someone strong enough to withstand the robot’s attack and crazy enough to enjoy being the decoy … Deadpool, of course! But, when even that plan doesn’t work, the boys come up with a new idea: if the Stalker wants Jean Grey … it’s Jean Grey he’ll get!
Despite starting off with Wolverine, this is certainly a goofy, Deadpool story at it’s heart. Serious Wolverine and X-Men fans probably won’t enjoy the tale too much but, if you’re one of those irreverent Deadpool fans, seeing him in the Jean Grey costume alone might just be worth the price of admission. And, on top of that, there’s a back-up feature that reprints a Deadpool team-up with the Great Lakes Avengers.
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