Tired of Deadpool being everywhere? TOO BAD! He's got a team-based miniseries and a graphic novel drawn by Rob Liefeld coming up!
NewsDeadpool is very, very overexpo—BUSY! Very busy these days. That’s what I meant to say. He has his solo series going on, an upcoming team-up book with Spider-Man, a spot in the Avengers Unity Team, a digital series with Cable, and also his own movie coming out. Plus Gwenpool (what in the hell?) is getting a holiday special, so that counts too. Lot of stuff going on for Wade Wilson.
Well, add two more things to the pile because we’ve got a graphic novel and miniseries coming up! First off is the Original Graphic Novel Deadpool: Bad Blood, put together by the writing team of Chris Sims and Chad Bowers with none other than Rob Liefeld drawing!
Liefeld is the co-creator of Deadpool and his first time as a regular artist for him since Deadpool Corps. Pouches, blah, blah, feet, blah, blah, gritted teeth, blah, blah, whatever other jokes. Got that out of the way.
He’s joined by Sims and Bowers, who absolutely killed it with X-Men ’92 during Secret Wars, which ruled enough to get its own upcoming ongoing. They also wrote a great book about a disgraced football player beating up sports mascots that you should read.
The other book is a miniseries by Cullen Bunn (the least surprising sentence fragment ever) and Salva Espin. Deadpool: The Mercs for Money is a spinoff of the current main series and its crazy-ass status quo. Deadpool is now such a success that he’s franchised himself, not unlike Batman Inc. There’s now an entire team of Deadpools and it’s a who’s who of obscure heroes, anti-heroes, and outright villains.
You have Solo, the counter-terrorist and occasional mercenary. The Terror, a hitman whose powers are a cross between a zombie and Mega Man. The water-themed, somehow-once-an-Avenger Stingray. Slapstick, the living cartoon character with an attitude. Foolkiller, the psycho who...kills...fools? Madcap, who is like the prototype Deadpool in the sense that he’s a wacky, immortal, quick-healing, insane anti-hero (and is canonically the white text box that used to speak to Wade back in the Daniel Way days). Then being added for the miniseries, you have Massacre, the recent Spider-Man villain who is almost completely without morality or emotion.
It’s kind of like Death and Return of Superman for Deadpool, only better than the time they actually DID do Death and Return of Superman for Deadpool back in the early 2000s.
Mercs for Money will be out in February, just in time for the Deadpoolmovie to hit theaters. I imagine Bad Blood is the same.
Gavin Jasper has something big with Deadpool coming in the next few days. Stay tuned and follow him on Twitter!
