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X-ual Healing: Groffon the Regurger Attacks in Deadpool #2

Published Mon, 09 Jul 2018 08:00:40 -0500

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DEADPOOL #2
SKOTTIE YOUNG (W) • NIC KLEIN (A/C)
COSMIC CALAMITY!
• A strange and powerful being from outer space is coming to destroy Earth – but WHY?
• WHO CARES?! Deadpool is totally going to merc it dead! Take that, space nerd!
• Ummm, that's the right thing to do, right? And…Wade can do it? Right? And there totally won't be any repercussions, right? RIGHT? I, uh…I've got a lot riding on this…
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

Deadpool #2 opens with the Champions fighting the Juggernaut, only to be interrupted by the arrival of Groffon the Regurger, a cosmic menace. The Champions want to call the Avengers, but the Avengers are busy visiting Croton-on-Hudson, which is where Deadpool's office is located, inside a mall.

Deadpool is engaging with witty and self-referential banter with fellow mall employees in the food court when Captain America arrives. Deadpool attacks him and makes a run for it, even though Cap just wants to talk. Cap chases him down, knocking Deadpool through a glass exit door and directly into the Ghost Rider's car. The other Avengers are there too. They beat the crap out of Deadpool.

Later, in Deadpool's office, after he's healed a bit, Tony Stark explains that Deadpool is in possession of the only device that can defeat Groffon. The problem is, Deadpool wiped his own memory before rebooting his series, so he doesn't remember where it is, or so he says. Deadpool annoys Tony Stark, but before Stark can blast him with his repulsors, he gets a call from Nova, who points out that Groffon is vomiting all over the city. Deadpool won't give the Avengers his weapon, but he says the Avengers can hire him if they want him to save the world. They don't agree, which Deadpool takes as a secret agreement to maintain plausible deniability.

He meets Hydra Bob at a storage unit where he pulls out the cosmic surfboard he used as a herald of Galactus in Deadpool Team-Up #883, and we get a caption reference to that issue and everything. He flies the suefboard to New York and confronts Groffon, who refuses to surrender.