Sadly, they're not as good as you'd think. Deadpool's humor comes and goes but where the comic fails is the odd and confusing story lines they give to Deadpool and his supporting cast. Sometimes it felt as though scenes were missing from the book. I never understood how "so-and-so" went from being in one place to being at another, or being healthy in one panel and patched up on the next page without explanation or reason.
On top of that, they tried to give Deadpool serious story lines which clashed with the humor they put in the book. I don't mind if the bad guy is whimsical, but if he's in to killing little girls and you show it, it's kind of hard to laugh at that situation where Deadpool burst in the door while he's in the john. Just weird stuff like that made the book confusing.
Finally and probably the most painful thing in the series was the changing of the guard in new writers coming into the series. Want Wade Wilson's origin story? You'll get it 3 separate times and they're all different because each writer decided they didn't like the previous writers explanation so they changed it....and changed it again....and changed it back. It got annoying and led to several plot holes in the end that didn't make sense.
Also, an annual issue was part of the story line. Like between issues 17 and 18 if you didn't read the annual or special or even crossover that happened in-between you were missing out on the story immediately thereafter. I don't know why they didn't just make a one shot story for those issues and let the ongoing series carry the main story line.
Overall the series was ok but not as great as I'd hoped it would be.
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