Deadpool Team-Up: Blood of the Dragon

Deadpool Team-Up (2024) #1-5

by Rob Liefeld

Superstar author Rob Liefeld returns once again to his greatest creation Deadpool for an epic team-up book of monumental proportions!

When you need a hired hand, Deadpool is your man! But when Wade Wilson needs assistance, he’s got friends (and frenemies) from across the Marvel Universe he can count on! And the return of a lost Marvel Comics character will necessitate the ultimate team-up mission — bringing Deadpool together with Major X, Crystar, Ghost-Spider, Wolverine and the Hulk! But who is Ral Dorn, and how does the Dragon Lord factor into this mission?! Join everyone’s favorite Merc With a Mouth and an all-star cast of Marvel’s finest as he races to obtain the Dragon Egg and save two worlds in the process!

COLLECTING: Deadpool Team-Up (2024) 1-5

Genres: Graphic Novels, Marvel, Comics

120 pages, Paperback

Published April 22, 2025

About the author

Rob Liefeld is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. A prominent artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium.

In the early 1990s, self-taught artist Liefeld became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which rode the wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.

He is married to actress Joy Creel.

Reviews

[Khurram · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is Rob Liefeld's goodbye book. I would have given this story 3 stars and the artwork 5 stars, so 4 stars is a good compromise. There are lots of full pages, almost pinup artwork.

Deadpool has managed to get himself in trouble. Now, to get himself out of trouble, he is going to get into more trouble and take the world with him. However, luckily or unlucky, a number of his friends and rivals are there to help whether they want to or not.

This book is an art gallery, great big panels, and battles. This book takes the meet, fight, and team up to the extreme. I would have liked a few more fight/action panels, but I understand that space was an issue. The book finishes with a varient covers gallery. On a final note, I just want to say thank you Rob!!!

[Paul · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.4 stars

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rob Leifeld even gave himself a cameo appearance in this.....sigh.

[Mario V · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first 4 parts were pretty good and fun and then the last part came in. There wasn’t that much Ghost Spider and the pacing felt rushed. The art was pretty good though.

[Tyler Jenkins · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a fan of whatever this was

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rob Liefeld sends himself a love letter in this volume of Deadpool Team-Up: Blood of the Dragon. Having pissed off a cadre of ninjas, Deadpool opts to undertake a quest for dragon eggs that will wipe his slate clean. Naturally, this being a team-up book, the mission adds a few guest stars along the way. First up is Dragon Lord, who is the keeper of the eggs and resident master of the aforementioned large lizards. Wolverine and Lady Deadpool tag in, while the Hulk gets a chance to roar and punch for about an issue. Honorable mention Crystar gets a shot at the spotlight before being quickly forgotten; Cable and a futuristic Spider-Gwen also pop up for cameos. With the status quo of the future restored, Deadpool heads off on new adventures. Rob Liefeld throws everything but the kitchen sink at one of his final Marvel Comics appearances, and that is meant literally. Not only does Liefeld pencil a jumbled script of action scenes and one liners, but his trademark oddball anatomy is on display across each chapter. Topping it off, he even has one of the X-Soldiers unmask - calling himself Rob and sporting a certain artist’s likeness. Fans of the man will enjoy this send off, but those who have followed his works know that this was all just a ploy to remind people who created Deadpool over thirty years ago. Deadpool Team-Up: Blood of the Dragon is a swan song to Rob Liefeld, leaving readers to do with that what they will.

[Willie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't like Rob Liefeld. I checked this book out from my local library because Crystarr the Crystal Warrior looked so neat on the cover and I wanted to know more about him. This comic book reminds me of why other people like Rob so much. His art here is cleaner and less busy than most modern artists or even older Liefield work, and it actually presents well as long as you don't look at the feet too long. The story is stupid, but in a fun way that comics don't always get to be any more. Rob literally just loosely strung together the characters he felt like drawing even if they were obscure nonsense from a Fantastic Four annual that was published more than twenty years ago, and personally I kind of love that method of storytelling. Overall this would've been terrible if t was longer or wordier but it was a fun short read if you're looking for some fun comic book junk food.

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh my...did I just see Wolverine being mildly nice to Deadpool without the usual caustic snark? Just a "Sorry I'm late, kid" as the first thing he says to the Merc with the Mouth??? Mr. Sinister I think you programmed the Logan clone wrong, you might want to do a factory reset on this one - you're not convincing anyone that this is the Wolverine.

Also what in the DND campaign is this last Liefeld DP volume?

Seems like Dragon Lord Boy just needs to roll a 20 (i'm sorry I don't know how to play DND) to regenerate all his mana just so he can come in to scream "ENOUGH" and wave his weird magic staff around.

[Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

ohhhhh boy...
Liefeld wanted to remind everyone YET AGAIN that he created Deadpool

This 'team-up' is just cramming together things nobody really wants. That includes his own cameo in the comic he wrote. Ugh.

[Dave Smyth · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love Rob Liefeld and the world has been greatly improven by the art he has brought to us. But not from this book lol.......... I did enjoy alot of the art though!

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fine, if ultimately messy and all over the place. Disappointing that the Savage Dragon was only name checked.

[Matthew Fleming · Rating 3 out of 5]

Less funny than you would expect, but the meta-dial gets cranked all the way up at the end, and Liefeld's artwork is exquisite.

[Michael Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the greatest Deadpool story but a fun read nonetheless.

[Cam B · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great action sequences, but abysmal story. Just a nostalgia trip, no substance.