• Deadpool is Marvel's guinea pig. They treat the character like shit. I personally feel that Rob Liefield did more harm than good in the comic world, but Deadpool was one awesome co-creation, and you can't deny that. Marvel treats Deadpool like some character that can be cute and cuddly one minute and threatening the next. Marvel can be real f'ed up sometimes.

• @RobP Most people loved Niceiza's run. But I didn't because he pretty much ignored all the character development and turned the character into what *he* wanted it to be. The whole convoluted T-Ray/Wade Wilson/Jack thing was turned into "It's magic, none of it was real" accoarding to Nicezia, but at the end of the series, he lightened up and said "it's up to whoever's writing it". I just didn't like how he turned Deadpool into a "look at me do cute random shit that serves no purpose". He puts on the old Marvel Girl outfit (high skirt and ankle boots and all) because his "brain is in flux". It was a development Fabian threw in there for no reason. All the other stuff, including getting rid of Cable's telekensis and telepathy as well as all the crap going on in the series was chalked up to "Cable's future tech" and "random military equipment". It was a real throw away answer. Cable lost his telepathy, then could 'read' all the information on the internet. All of it. At once. Why? Future tech for The Black Box (Comcast, character created by Fabian Nicezia in the first Deadpool mini-series). I just really hated the way Deadpool was outright psychotic for no reason out of the blue. The same way people dislike Deadpool's new random schitzo schtick with multiple voices in his head that he converses with. Kelly left Deadpool because it was constantly "Canceled, then uncanceled, then on the chopping block but not canceled" again. He got tired of it, wrapped up (early) the T-Ray/Jack/Wade Wilson thing (unsatisfactory even by his own admittance) and left to go work exclusively at DC for a bit. Next came Christopher Priest who had heard nothing of the character before being assigned to write it. He did an ok job and gave Deadpool a past. A history, a childhood. Which was later ignored by Niceizia. Why? "Because they were psychotic fake memories, they weren't real". His words, not Deadpool's. Jimmy Palimotti had an interesting run on there for a bit, crossover with the Punisher and some other mafia related stuff. It wasn't bad, but it was entirely forgettable. Frank Tieri's run was good, the first half, where the New Weapon X recruited him, and there were some good moments in it. The "Funeral for a Freak" was too over the top for my tastes. But the Gail Simone stuff with art by Udon (as well was the revamped Taskmaster and Taskmaster mini-series) was well written and had a nice combination of character development and storytelling. This ended where Deadpool was blown up and someone *like* Deadpool (with a few character traits missing) showed up with the rest of Deadpool's old supporting cast and wanted to be a merc. It was ok, but Simone left after about 7 issues and it kinda went into sucktitude. The last issue (that was supposed to be out) was written by Daniel Way no less. But Marvel wanted Deadpool for Cable & Deadpool, so they had Simone and Udon come back to wrap it up and give us Deadpool back. If you want, I can send you some issues (i've got a lot of'em scanned) to ya and ya can view it for yourself.

• Dogpool..... You'd better put down some newspapers to soak it up.

• @Warped Elements: Ah, see, I stopped reading when it McGuinness left or was taken off the book and it looked Joe Kelly's tenure was in limbo/coming to an end. The art started to get convoluted and messy, and the storylines were uninteresting. I must have missed the Gail Simone run when I took a hiatus from comicdom, but she's an excellent writer, so I'll have to see if I can find those back issues. Of course, for all that background-- and, for the record, I'm not surprised Way suckified the character, though, Nicieza being sub-par does shock a little-- I still don't have an answer as to what happened to Joe Kelly. Wikipedia, here I come!

• Well they could always make a fanboy version and name him...wait for it.... Pocketpool..

• Haha! Go go DogPoo!!!

• @ ZeroCorpse Actually, it was Pool Boy. He didn't last long. :P @WarpedElements What's her face = Gail Simone. She fucking rocked as a writer for Deadpool!

• @ RobP What happened was nobody regularly wrote the book, then what's her face and Udon took over and it was an awesome book. Then Fabian Niceiza showed up and tried to make him a hero, threw in a bunch of new shit that made no sense, fucked up his backstory even MORE and basically ignored what little continuity he had, and made him a hero/look at me i'm funny because I do weird shit guy. He went from manic-bipolar guy with no sense of self worth to full on psychotic for no reason. Just threw in random shit. More or less, turned him into a cash cow because he was the ultimate non-sequitor in comic-dom. Whereas before, his rants and whatnot made sense, Niceizia made him just a straight up slapstick partner of Cable, fucked up his personality and now everyone wants that. THEN it got fucked up more by Daniel Way, because insanity wasn't enough, he's made him hallucinate and schizophrenic. Again, all for no reason except to advance the plot. I'm all for character development, but jesus christ, throwing in random shit because you can doesn't mean you should. And now, Deadpool's the new Wolverine. Guest Appearing in 2 or 3 extra books a month (besides his 3 ongoing series) etc etc. Repeat until he's in a cartoon (he's going to be in Wolverine & The X-Men next season) and wait for even more merchandising.

• They really need to call the kid version of Deadpool, "Kiddie Pool".

• This reminds of the time all parts of Deadpool's personality separated into different people (even a lady for his "feminine side"). It worked as a joke for a couple of issues. Maybe it can work again, plus animal friends?? It's hard to say. "Penciled by Rob Liefeld" is the scariest thing about it!

• Man.....why does Lady Deadpool have to have huge melons and long hair? Wouldn't be more appropriate to have her be....an old lady or a seriously fat chick? How about a giant? Maybe a burn victim? Or transgendered.......or a guy in a dress.....needless to say 'hot chick Deadpool' annoys me. Hopefully they all turn out to be separate personalities within Wade's already messed up head....

• What about Shedpool, the barn with the backtalk? Or Pusspool, the cat with the chatter? Or Breadpool, the slice with the speak? Threadpool, the blog with the braggadocio? Fredpool, you know ummm.... deadpool's uncle? Oh there could be reverse deadpool, poolalive, he would have blue text boxes. Then we could put him in, well Jane Austen novels are taken, so how about Louisa May Alcott novels? Little Women and Deadpool. The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm. Somehow the sight of the old shoes had a good effect upon the girls, for Mother was coming, and everyone brightened to welcome her. Meg stopped lecturing, and lighted the lamp, Amy got out of the easy chair without being asked, and Jo forgot how tired she was as she sat up to hold the slippers nearer to the blaze. When Deadpool stuck Beth with a samurai sword to the gut. She hung there on his sword like a stuck pig, and Deadpool thought in yellow text, "My how old shoes do have a good effect on everyone in the room."

• This would work wonderfully as a whirlwind, fast-paced miniseries that fully embraces the insanity unleashed in its pages. I'm honestly hoping for a splash page with all the Deadpool's narrating at once, all of them completely obscured by yellow text boxes.

• If it is meant to be a DC parody, it misses the mark. Lady Deadpool wouldn't be wearing the exact same outfit and the dog would just have the mask and cape.

• im a bit torn by the idea of a team of deadpool bc well as everyone was saying deadpool by himself is bad ass enough, now if it were just dogpool i could see that and imagine it being funny (deadpool buys the dog, throws the costume on him calls him dogpool and thus claims that dogpool is one of the voices in his head....srsly marvel, i cant believe you'd touch our merc

• It looks like there's a head with a sword in its mouth in front of Lady Deadpool's knees, too. Someone up above mentioned Headpool - I wonder if that's him.

• I may, just may, have to start picking up Deadpool books again. The character and his title really should be like a Robot Chicken meets The Venture Bros. for comics. The only writer who was any good at writing Deadpool as a believable, human, albeit seriously flawed, character in a "realistic" super hero comic was Joe Kelly. Whatever happened to him?

• "Update: It's a dog named Dogpool. Fucking fantastic." And I was hoping for Pussypool. Oh well.

• If this doesn't suck I will... I will... uh... I WILL RAPE A HAT!

• There was a Mini-Me Deadpool clone and a Deadpool dog name Doguma or something in the recent Deadpool #900(which was kind of a hodge-podge of different artists and writers so it was both good and bad), so maybe these new characters are derived from those stories.

• @ liquidhalcyon: I getcha buddy! I'm right behind ya. Although I was more joking about Disney. They don't officialy own Marvel until the end of this fiscal year, and I have a pretty good feeling they won't screw with Marvel too much. But I'd like to know who's dumbass idea this was at Marvel?! There are some strange writers walking their halls these days.

• Joe Kelly was so much WIN! I loved he (his?) and Ed McGuinness' run on the original Deadpool series. Lady Deadpool looks.... good in that CBR pic. Odd, but.... yeah, she's hot.

• On a related note, bring back Nicieza.

• FUCK! I knew they would eventually find a way to ruin Deadpool. This is it. Fuck you, Marvel/Disney. Fuck you.

• OK. Disney or no Disney, I still think this is crud. I like Deadpool as a solo dude. I just can't buy into this. My own opinion. So sue me.

• What makes anyone think that Disney has anything to do with this? Or is Disney just the scapegoat to blame anything marvel related on?

• I really doubt Disney had anything to do with this.

• Right about now, I would like to gouge out my eyes. This is the stupidest thing I've read all day. Don't get me wrong. Deadpool is cool. But is this Disney somehow horning in on family entertainment fun? Is there gonna be violence? Adult humor? Serious ass-kicking? WTF?!

• Another member of the Deadpool Corps is Headpool, the decapitated head of Zombie Deadpool.

• i noticed some mention of Lady Deadpool in #900 from last week, but i just assumed that it was 1) a joke, or 2) already in the Deadpool comics.

• Kyle Baker? Awesome. =)

• Already it seems that disney is fucking up Marvel

• Oh, and spin off's suck. I quit bothering with anything Marvel a while ago because of the endless spin off's and buying eight different comics to follow one story line.

• Deadpool was cooler when nobody really knew about him.

• This might shed a little more light on the subject - this is from Marvel's soliciations for January 2010: DEADPOOL: MERC WITH A MOUTH #7 Written by VICTOR GISCHLER Penciled by ROB LIEFELD, KYLE BAKER, DAS PASTORAS & BONG DAZO. Wraparound Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM "ARE YOU THERE, DEADPOOL? IT'S ME DEADPOOL." Special double-sized issue with art by ROB LIEFELD, KYLE BAKER, DAS PASTORAS and regular series artist BONG DAZO. What do you do with a homesick zombie head? Take it back to the zombie universe, of course! Hopping through an interdimensional portal in the Florida swamp with Headpool tucked under his arm, Deadpool soon finds himself bouncing through a series of outlandish alternate realities, each more warped than the last. Wade Wilson, say hello to Major Deadpool, the Deadpool Kid and – va-va-voom – Lady Deadpool. CBR even has a picture to go along with this new info: http://comicbookresources.com/news/preview2.php?image=solicits/marvelcomics/201001/33_DEADPOOL__MERC_WITH_A_MOUTH_7.jpg

• Marvel, I am Disappoint.

• Isn't Headpool going to be involved as well?

• Hey Martel get you nerd facts straight! Don't drag DC into this crap! I think Deadpools most likely poking fun at Marvel itself. Lady Bullseye, Lady Black Panther. Pepper Potts as Iron Man. All what Marvel's doing lately is throwing tits on their male characters.

• I mean I know what happened to him, (Widdle Wade) but Dead Pool killed him and buried him in a playground. How is he going to come back alive ? I wish Joe Kelly was writing this.

• 'If these new Deadpools are anything other than alternate reality versions of the nutcase we know and love, this is going to suck. As it is, the alternate reality versions teaming up would get old fast. Deadpool works because he's the only one who can see the yellow text boxes and has straightmen to play off. This... this just sounds bad.' Quoted for truth. However, if this a little more classic Deadpool, and they're all just completely insane and yet horribly charming, then it could work. But how any writer could pull of a dog in a costume like that called Dogpool baffles me.

• It just donned on me.. that kid Dead Pool isn't just kid Dead Pool, it's Widdle Wade !!! I wondered what happened to him ! http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/378/124601-18602-109766-1-deadpool--widdle-wa_super.jpg

• http://www.deadpoolbugle.com/2009/10/deadpool-corps-mini-event-announced.html and newsarama has some info as well. So there is some more info about it. I would have just emailed it but I may be getting ignored

• It's funny that there's a dog... I just wonder if they are all mentally insane. I hope this are only mini-series, I can't afford to buy this many books on a monthly basis.

• at first i was angry, and then i was Loldogpool. seriously, lady deadpool is dumb, but kid deadpool is great, and dogpool is pure genius.

• Sweet zombie jeebus! Awesomeo. I am so looking forward to this.

• It's all about two things.. The art and the writing. I personally cannot bare to read merc with a mouth because the art is UGLY. And I tried, I bought the first 3 issues but it's just horrible. And when the regular series Deadpool took a break from the ongoing story to have the pirate adventure I was amped, but That art was ugly and I couldn't get into the book. I can deal with more Deadpool as long as they keep the art well, whom ever does the current series, Joe Kelly and Udon have all had the best takes. I feel like they need to keep hiring funny people like Gail Simone to write Deadpool.. nothing has even come close to touching her run on the character. Other people kinda take the idea of who Deadpool is and run with it wrong, like the thing now with two voices in his head is lame. Stick with the ONE.

• Personally, I like the idea of the Deadpool corps. Deadpool has always been about parodying comic book conventions and there is little that is more typical of comic books than making different versions of a popular character e.g. (Batgirl, Supergirl, Superboy etc...). I think this could be amusing.

• I knew it was only a matter of time before they made me a comic book star.

• I hope this doesn't mean a fourth ongoing series. Seriously, Marvel is already giving us three Deadpool comics every month on top of, and if they add one more I'm going to snap.

• If these new Deadpools are anything other than alternate reality versions of the nutcase we know and love, this is going to suck. As it is, the alternate reality versions teaming up would get old fast. Deadpool works because he's the only one who can see the yellow text boxes and has straightmen to play off. This... this just sounds bad.

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