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The title of this book is perhaps a little misleading. Hawkeye and Deadpool don’t fight each other in this book (at least not beyond some friendly squabbling), but other than that, it’s about what fans should expect of these two characters.

Deadpool seems to function best as a character when he’s next to a “straight man” type, and Hawkeye is definitely that. Their relationship is not unlike the one that Wade Wilson had with Cable in the Cable and Deadpool run. It’s the classic “buddy cop” matchup and it works well for the story. Worth noting is the fact that Cliff Barton is deaf in this storyline; he lost his hearing in issue #19 of Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye series, so Deadpool’s mask is left half-up on his face so that Barton can read his lips.

The first issue features these two against a legion of drones – brainwashed test patients dressed as familiar superheroes. Familiar villainesses Black Cat and Typhoid Mary appear, but their motives are left unclear. This series looks to have enough action balanced with enough light-hearted quips from Deadpool to be entertaining for quite some time.