First Look: Return of the Living Deadpool #1
By Nick Tylwalk
You wanted to see Deadpool battle zombies again? Well you’ve got it!
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The last time Deadpool was up against the living dead, he was able to use his mutant healing factor to prevent a zombie apocalypse. Instead of zombies biting people and having them turn into zombies, any zombie that bites Deadpool turns into … another Deadpool!
This doesn’t sound quite so bad, but as we’re going to learn in Return of the Living Deadpool #1, there’s a fairly significant catch.
“So there are thousands of Deadpools, all of them originating from the one and only Wade Wilson,” writer Cullen Bunn said in an interview with Marvel.com. “Every time a zombie takes a bite out of one of these Deadpools, the zombie becomes Deadpool. But the ‘copy’ is degrading from rebirth to rebirth. You know how Deadpool has numerous personalities? Well, these newly created Deadpools start to latch onto different aspects of Deadpool’s split psyche, forming factions. And these factions don’t all get along!”
So we’re getting hordes of zombies battling squads of not so bright Deadpool clones. This could get messy. Return of the Living Deadpool #1 goes on sale in January, but we’ve got a first look at what Bunn and artist Nik Virella have in mind right here.