Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos

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Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos
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Group publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos #1 (2015)
In-story information
Type of organizationTeam
Leader(s) Shiklah
Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos
Series publication information
Format Ongoing series
Genre
Publication date 2015
Number of issues4
Main character(s) Howling Commandos

Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics. [1] [2]

Contents

Publication history

The series was part of the "Secret Wars" event in 2015.

Plot

While her husband Deadpool is dead, Shiklah is engaged to Dracula. In order to find the pieces of the Scepter of the Manticore, Shiklah persuades Dracula to let her go on this quest as he assigns his Howling Commandos (consisting of Frankenstein's Monster, Man-Thing, Marcus the Centaur, N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, Werewolf by Night) to accompany her. [3] When Deadpool's ghost visits her, he possessed the body of Dracula's servant Joshua which enables Shiklah to kill Dracula. Afterwards, Shiklah ignores the warning from Deadpool's ghost of challenging God Emperor Doom. As a result, she and her resistance group get themselves killed by the Thor Corps who have taken notice of what happened in Monster Metropolis. [4]

Reception

The series holds an average rating of 7.2 by five professional critics on the review aggregation website Comic Book Roundup. [5]

Doug Zawisza of CBR.com states that the writer Gerry Duggan brings in the a madcap, anything-goes type of humor into the series that he has previously used in Deadpool and that the series is everything someone would expect from a Duggan Deadpool comic with the added bonus of a lot of monsters. [6]

Prints

Issues

IssueTitle Cover date Comic Book Roundup ratingEstimated sales (first month)Rated
#1Warzones!: part 1August, 20156.4 by three professional critics. [7] 48,514, ranked 42nd in North America [8] PA [9]
#2Warzones!: part 2September, 2015—36,404, ranked 58th in North America [10] PA [11]
#3Warzones!: part 5October, 20157.3 by one professional critic. [12] 31,135, ranked 63rd in North America [13] PA [14]
#4Warzones!: part 6November, 20158.0 by one professional critic. [15] 28,966, ranked 62nd in North America [16] PA [17]

Collected editions

Title
[Tagline]		FormatMaterial collectedPagesPublication
date		ISBNEstimated sales
(North America)
Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos TPB Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos #1-4112 [18] May 3, 2016 0785198806
978-0785198802 		1,756, ranked 60th [19]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Exclusive: 'MRS. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos' enter Marvel's Battleworld". 9 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos #1
  4. ↑ Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos #4
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  6. ↑ "MRS. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos #1". 11 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS #1". Comic Book Roundup . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
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  11. ↑ "MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS (2015) #2". Marvel.com . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  12. ↑ "MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS #3". Comic Book Roundup . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  13. ↑ "August 2015 Comic Book Sales Figures". comichron.com. The Comics Chronicles . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  14. ↑ "MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS (2015) #3". Marvel.com . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  15. ↑ "MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS #4". Comic Book Roundup . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  16. ↑ "September 2015 Comic Book Sales Figures". comichron.com. The Comics Chronicles . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  17. ↑ "MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS (2015) #4". Marvel.com . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  18. ↑ MRS. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos. 3 May 2016. ISBN   978-0785198802.
  19. ↑ "April 2016 Comic Book Sales Figures". comichron.com. The Comics Chronicles . Retrieved 2017-09-24.
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