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I can already tell that you know I'm a fan. "Fan of who? Who is this 'Deadpool' and why do you like him so?" Sometimes, a man has to explain his passions, others can just see. If you ever picked up an X-Men comic book within the last 15-20 years, you may have seen him. Some may still ask, "I'm not exactly sure I've seen him in a Marvel comic before, how do I really know you're not just drinking motor oil cocktails?" Ugh, some people just don't wanna research. Fine you little mouthbreathers, not only am I gonna discribe him for ya, I'll tell you a bit of history! "Horray! A field trip! Will we be looking at dinosuars?" GET BACK IN YOUR GODDAMN SEAT OR I'M TAKING YOUR SNACK PACK! Sorry about that, I had to get warmed up. You see, way back in the late 80's, Marvel comics had a comic book out that featured Scott "Cyclops" Summers son from the future named Nathan, otherwise known as Cable. At one point he was leading a team of mutants known as the "New Mutants" and stared in the comic of the same name. Now at one point, they were going through a bunch of bad guys throughout the series, but somewhere around late 1990 and feburary of 1991, they introduced a new character to be made into an eventual regular throughout the X-Men line of titles. He was a blantent copy of DC Comics Deathstroke the Terminator. His name? Wade Wilson, a.k.a. Deadpool. At first, Deadpool was a very serious guy. As the fact he was a mercenary, he was always out to kill for money. When the character became so popular in 1993, Fabian Nicieza was tapped to write Deadpool: Circle Chase, a 4 book miniseries that defined a new personality for the character. At this point, he became a very fast talking individual that distracted his enemies with funny one liners and constant jabbering. This new change in direction for the character's development spread like wildfire through the comic book world making him a very irritating threat to anyone who fought him. It was explained somewhere between his debut and his first mini that he was a very skilled marksman, has impecible hand-to-hand combat training, is skilled in many forms of martial arts with formal weapons training, and has a very rapid and powerful healing factor that allows him to not only heal his wounds, but also regrow body parts including limbs and organs. He had gained the ability to heal from the second incarnation of the Weapon X program where he received the DNA sequence of Wolverine to try and cure his cancer. The DNA sequence had instead bonded with the cancer and caused him to be horribly scared from head to toe and left him mentally unstable. This mental instability is the reason for his constant jawing even during battle. Did I mention because of this insanity he also had a facination with Bea Arthur? During this time, another 4 book series had come out in 1994 and at this point he started making appearances through the entire Marvel Universe. I'm serious, everything from Wolverine to Silver Sable he was everywhere. Finally in 1997, Deadpool was giving his own series that lasted 69 (Don't laugh, that's how many) issues until change in managemant caused the series to end. Here, we see him at the Hellhouse, a Chicago hangout for all mercs and assasins where they all receive jobs. This is also where he meets with his bestest buddy, info supplier and arms dealer, Weasle. We actually meet Weasle the first mini but he makes his way to the main series. We also meet his rival Merc T-Ray, a pale, muscle-bound sorcerer that for some reason always wears a bandage on his nose. It's actually revealed later that T-Ray hates Deadpool because T-Ray claims to be the real Wade Wilson. That parts always confusing to me, so we're just gonna ignore that for now. Also on our roster of characters is Blind Al, some old blind woman Deadpool claims is his hostage, but she's more like a mother figure. A blind, cynical, bitch of a mother, but it is what it is. At this point, we have no bloody idea where the hell she came from, but to an extent, no one gives a rats ass, watching these two go back and forth is funny as hell. So, somewhere within the first half of the series, DP is pretty much top dog at Hellhouse. He's making money and everything but something is starting to bother ol' Wade. His entire body started breaking down. He was actually loosing his ability to grow back parts and by his own words, he was basically going to turn into snot if he didn't get a cure. Dr. Killabrew, a scientist that was once associated with the Weapon X Project baited Deadpool into coming to his cabin in the Alps. Taking X-Force member Siryn with him, the both discover that Killabrew actually called Deadpool out because of his problem. There was no love loss between the two due to the fact that Killabrew actually tortured the failed subjects of the Weapon X program in a lab called the "Workshop", including him. Dispite the trust issue, Dp allows Killabrew to aid him using some of the Hulk's irradiated blood to stablize him. Upon almost killing Killabrew, Siryn stopped him before doing so and encouraged him to be a better person. This is where DP for the first time in his life tried to be something other than a Merc. from this point on, Deadpool is going back and forth between trying to be a hero, a merc, and an all round confused individual. He was contacted by Landau, Luckman & Lake to be the Mithras, protector of the Missiah, later to be found out as an alien being that made everyone brainwashed and ignorant. instead of protecting the Missiah, Deadpool saves the world populas by killing the being, but not after playing a game of Rochambeau with a possessed Captain America which ended with a kick to the happysack. Being proven as a hero, but to no one seeing as everyone on the planet was totally mindless at the time it happened, Dp goes about trying to find his place up until the end of the series with him supposedly killed in an explosion. There was a series called Agent X after that, but that series sucked. Moving on. Cable and Deadpool. Here's the good shit. After the events of the Agent X series, which was totally stupid, Deadpool is found to had fallen for the most part out of the Merc business as now he spends his days watching TV in a rathole apartment in Midtown New York somewhere. Now some background on Cable since this point on, but don't worry, i've give the Reader's digest version; He stops killing, becomes a good guy, and turns his old ship from the future into an island called Providence. Make sense? If not, just go with it, that's what I did. So, after a rocky start, genetic experiments made by some French blue guys in some weird religion, and turning into diarrhea in the hot sun, Cable and Deadpool find a way to share some of their genetic codes to stablize themselves from both their mutations and from the experiments placed on themselves. After such, Deadpool can now use Cable's "Bodyslide" technology, but the issue is that one can't transport without the other. Made it somewhat funny in later storylines, but it was just retarded later on after that. Alright, I'm gonna cut this as short as possible from here on out. Deadpool works for Cable, Cable becomes Missiah of Providence and the world, Cable loses his powers, he replaces his power with techno-based replacements, takes over a country, Deadpool becomes an agent of the government and Cable cons the government into taking it away, Cable dies, and the rest of the series is all about Deadpool and working with Agency X. Throughout all of Cable and Deadpool, Deadpool was funny as hell, but the fact that he was passed off as a penny-anty character up until the end of the series pissed me off. It was as though Deadpool lost his edge after being the screwed up tard he was in the Agent X series until someone decided to take Cable out of the book. Up to this point, Deadpool had made a recent apperance in the book Wolverine: Origins and is about to make to appear in a new self titled series made by the same people who made Wolverine: Origins. All I can say is, DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! IT'S GOING TO SUCK! AVOID MARVEL AT ALL COSTS! the Wolverine Origins team of Daniel Way and Steven Dillon is actually going to be the new team to pen and draw Deadpool, but after the Origins disaster I don't wanna be part of it. They made him skitsophrantic and delusional which took away the concept that Deadpool acted insane to keep himself sane, even in battle. It was horribly written and the art sucked, meaning that the new series made by the same assholes as Wolverine: Origins meant it was going to suck as bad. Overall, I think Deadpool is a great character - if given the right writers - and I believe Ryan Reynolds can pull off the character (he's as big a fan as I) in the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine Flick due next summer. They better do him right or else I'm gonna kick the shit out of whoever writes this flick. Thanks for reading, Dan "Wade Wilson" Shannon
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