Return of the Living Deadpool Announced

Last year, one of Cullen Bunn’s many, many Deadpool miniseries was Night of the Living Deadpool. Taking place outside of continuity, it dealt with Deadpool sleeping through the initial outbreak of a zombie apocalypse, much like the protagonists of 28 Days Later andWalking Dead. Teaming together with a foul-mouthed old lady, a soldier, and two children, Deadpool attempted to survive in a world that fell to pieces.

In the end, he lost everything and discovered that the zombie outbreak was a failed experiment based on his DNA. Drinking the formula that caused the outbreak, Deadpool gave himself over to the zombie horde, but the story didn’t end with Deadpool’s demise.

Rather, the zombies became part of a Deadpool hive-mind. Any zombie that bit Deadpool would become infected with his personality. When one of those Deadpoolized zombies got bitten by a regular zombie, the regular zombie would also become an extension of Deadpool. A virus upon a virus. The story ended with a legion of zombies, all connected mentally as one Wade Wilson.

Now Cullen Bunn and Ramon Rosanas are returning for another go with Return of the Living Deadpool, which would be Bunn’s sixth Deadpool mini from my count. While the initial miniseries was pretty straightforward as a zombie story, this one is a bit more ridiculous. On one side, you have the regular zombies, who are still doing their own thing. In this reality, zombies happen to retain the personalities of who they used to be, albeit locked acting in their cannibal behavior and unable to turn away. So they’ll lurch at you and eat your brains, but yell that they don’t want to do it and beg for you to run.

On the other side, you have the growing legion of Deadpool zombies. Due to the sporadic nature of Wade Wilson’s psyche, these zombies are starting to drift away mentally and are beginning to show variety in how they act. They’re still based on Wade’s mind, but they’re individually more specific about which part of his personality they represent. Now they’re beginning to go to war with themselves.

We’re given two protagonists here, one of which is, naturally, Deadpool. Or a Deadpool. The sanest representation of Deadpool has become an outlier to the group and has started working together with one of the few surviving humans of the world, a teenager by the name of Liz. She’s a hardened zombie-killer and he’s a zombie-turned-lucid-merc-superhero. Together they’re...well, I don’t know what they’re going to do. I guess we’ll find out in 2015.

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