Deadpool Classic Companion

Deadpool Classic

by Fabian Nicieza, Glenn Herdling, Gregory Wright

Collecting Deadpool's incredibly hard to find early appearances - titanic team-ups, anthology antics and gratuitous guest shots by the sassin' assassin! From hanging with Marvel superstars Nomad and Silver Sable, to giving a much-needed sales boost to losers like Wolverine and the Avengers, the erstwhile Secret Defender (shhh!) and Hero For Hire (sweet Christmas!) sure gets around.
NOMAD (1992) 4; SECRET DEFENDERS 15-17; WOLVERINE (1988) 88, 154-155; X-FORCE (1991) 47, 56; HEROES FOR HIRE (1997) 10-11; MATERIAL FROM AVENGERS (1963) 366; SILVER SABLE & THE WILD PACK 23, 30; WOLVERINE ANNUAL '95, '99; CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS II 2; MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (2007) 10; BREAKING INTO COMICS THE MARVEL WAY 2

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, X Men, Fiction, Superheroes, Comic Book

384 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2015

About the author

Fabian Nicieza is a writer and editor who is best known as the co-creator of DEADPOOL and for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, and Robin.

His first novel, the Edgar Award-nominated SUBURBAN DICKS, a sarcastic murder mystery, is on sale now from Putnam Books.

The Dicks will return in THE SELF-MADE WIDOW, coming June 21st.

Reviews

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not really ABOUT Deadpool, so much as a fascinating time capsule of bad and confusing 90's comics that simply weren't important (no Heroes Reborn, no Clone Saga, no 2099, none of that). So 90's.

In one of the last pages, Deadpool actually turns into Combos Man. Well, not actually . . . .

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think you have to be a very hardcore Deadpool fan to like all of these previously uncollected stories. I found them to be of fairly low but consistent quality.

[Rusty · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome

[Joe Juarez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wham!

[Rob · Rating 2 out of 5]

This isn't a very good introduction to Deadpool. Apparently, 90's superhero comics really aren't my thing. The situations seemed contrived, with any powers seeming nothing more than deus ex machina to get them out of that situation. This certainly wasn't helped by commonly only seeing the middle or end of the story arc since this was a selection of issues over a time period rather than an arc.

[Jason Curtis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Still very little about who Deadpool is.

[pianogal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good but not my favorite, b/c this is just a bunch of collections of different stories. Good to complete to whole series, but hard to stay in b/c the narrative keeps resetting.