

This occurred during a line wide revamp of X-Men related comics, with Cable becoming Soldier X and X-Force becoming X-Statix. Wade lasted until issue #69, at which point it was Relaunched as a new title by Gail Simone with a similar character called Agent X in 2002. The writer Joe Kelly noted, "With Deadpool, we could do anything we wanted because everybody just expected the book to be cancelled every five seconds, so nobody was paying attention. The ongoing series gained cult popularity for its unorthodox main character and its balance of angst and pop culture slapstick and the character became less of a villain, though the element of his moral ambiguity remained. The series firmly established his supporting cast, including his prisoner/den mother Blind Al and his best friend Weasel.

Deadpool became an action comedy parody of the cosmic drama, antihero-heavy comics of the time. In 1997, Deadpool was given his own ongoing title, initially written by Joe Kelly, with then-newcomer Ed McGuinness as an artist. It is shown in the comics that Deadpool has a crush on spiderman. Deadpool is a character that is related to multiple superheros. Yet another inspiration to Deadpool was Spider-Man, who would make jokes during fights as well. Upon examination, Liefeld that "he was Deathstroke from Teen Titans", and gave him the real name of "Wade Wilson" as a reference to Slade Wilson, aka Deathstroke. Liefeld, who was a fan of Teen Titans, showed the character to Fabian. Rob Liefeld came up with the character's design and name while Nicieza came up with Deadpool's speech mannerisms. History and topic about Deadpool Marvel ĭeadpool first appeared in The New Mutants #98 in February 1991.


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