Preview: Return Of The Living Deadpool #1
By Nick Tylwalk
I’m not sure if you’ve heard or not, but Deadpool is soon going to be, well, dead. In other words, he’s going to go directly from starring in like 20 comics a month to zero.
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Well, maybe not zero, at least right away. See, he’s going to be in this book called Return of the Living Deadpool #1 in February, which doesn’t mean he’s coming back to life. Instead, it deals with the consequences of Wade Wilson stopping a zombie apocalypse by using his healing factor to save us all. The thing is, any zombie that ate Deadpool changed into a Deadpool himself. You can see why that might be a bad thing after it happened thousands of times, particularly once the Deadpools started forming factions among themselves.
“So there are thousands of Deadpools, all of them originating from the one and only Wade Wilson,” writer Cullen Benn said in an interview with Marvel.com. “Every time a zombie takes a bite of one of these Deadpools, the zombie becomes Deadpool. You know how Deadpool has numerous personalities? Well, these newly created Deadpools start to latch on to different aspects of Deadpools split psyche, forming factions. And these factions don’t get along!”
Yeah, Deadpool tends to be a guy most people only want to be exposed to in small doses, and this is pretty much the exact opposite. In any case, we’ve got some preview pages for you to check out, and a variant cover by Ryan Stegman. Return of the Living Deadpool #1 hits stores and digital on February 4 from Bunn and artist Nik Virella, and remember, this is close to the end for him. You might want to buy it just to help say your goodbyes.