When Deadpool's attempt to steal some Vibranium leads to a startling new development in Wakandan technology, everything T'Challa thought he knew about being a ruler and everything Deadpool thought he knew about being a mercenary gets thrown out the window. But make no mistake: they still remember how to fight each other.
Daniel Kibblesmith is an Emmy-nominated TV writer and author from Oak Park, Illinois.
He was most recently a Co-Executive Producer for Netflix Animation’s Strip Law (2026) — as well as writing for shows like Inside Job (Netflix, 2021), Clone High (Max, 2023), The Nevers (HBO, 2021) and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS, 2015 - 2020). He was also the writer of the televised live event Celebrating Marvel’s Stan Lee (ABC, 2019) and a writer for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards (2017).
His next book is So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe, with illustrator Kyle Hilton from Chronicle Books and Marvel. With illustrator, Ashley Quach, he is the author of the picture books Princess Dinosaur (LBYR, 2021) and Santa’s Husband (Harper Design, 2017). He is also the author of We Wish You a Harley Christmas: DC Holiday Carols (Chronicle Books, 2020) and the co-author of the humor book, How to Win at Everything (Chronicle Books, 2013).
In comics, he’s written for characters like Spider-Man, Loki, Black Panther, Deadpool, Harley Quinn, Darkwing Duck, Rick and Morty and others for Marvel, D.C. Comics, Dynamite, Oni, Valiant Comics, Vault, Archie, Boom! Studios and possibly others. With co-writer Eliot Rahal, and artist Kendall Goode, he is co-creator of the creator-owned comic, The Doorman.
He was also a founding editor of ClickHole (2014), and has written humor for outlets like The New Yorker, McSweeneys, and The Onion News Network.
He is a frequent podcast and live comedy guest, and is married to his favorite author, Jennifer Wright. Together they have one child, a daughter who is funnier than he is.
Daniel Kibblesmith is an entertaining writer who definitely knows how to quip. Black Panther and Deadpool actually make pretty good foils for one another. If it wasn't for the terrible art by Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, I'd have given it 4 stars. His art looks like doodles in the back of an 8th grader's notebook. The colors were even worse. They had all these weird textures and lines that clashed with one another.
Deadpool is in fine fourth-wall breaking form in this exciting and hilarious collection. Also, he pairs beautifully with T'Challa. I couldn't have asked for a better pairing. Then topping it off with some delightful Shuri moments and a surgically modified zebra? Brilliant. But the best part by far was the author absolutely owning the apparent daddy issues of assholes who participate in big game hunting. Nothing says "daddy didn't love me" like killing a defenseless endangered creature. Kibblesmith is a pretty quality writer for DP. I'll read more of his work. One star off for the art--I prefer more crisp lines in the inking. (an additional half star for the Ta-Nehisi Coates reference).
Really intersting artwork by Ricardo Lopez Ortiz makes this book worth a peek at online - otherwise it's the routine mainstream Marvel hero is peed off with Deadpool and his approach to life and killing... although worth existing for this cover: . Way overuse of the fourth wall breaking and irrational behavior by Deadpool and over tolerance by T'Challa makes this more of a farce than the dark comedy that has Wade at his best. . 5.5 out of 12 - the art saves the book a bit.
The writing is good - it's worth reading for Timmy's real name. And at least Black Panther comments on the moral problems of Deadpool (though if Wakanda is spying on everyone, I don't see how they moral high ground. Governments I get, but you are spying on mailman because ????).
When it came out, and I completely ignored it, I'm sure this was an entertaining enough crossover miniseries. It makes a few nods towards deeper themes – T'challa flirting with the temptations of immortality, Wade trying to be a good person according to his own rather idiosyncratic standards while Panther insists he's nothing of the sort. Mostly, though, it throws two of Marvel's more surprisingly bankable stars of recent years at each other, and delights in the clanging noises which ensue. Deadpool, breaking the fourth wall as usual, knows the rules of crossovers and tells Panther they might as well skip past the misunderstanding and the fight to the team-up; he also grumbles that when Panther does captions it counts as narration, which is clearly a double standard. And so forth. But context changes everything. The reason I read this was that after Chadwick Boseman died, Marvel briefly made pretty much the entire Black Panther back catalogue free. And while Ortiz' art is far from straightforwardly representational, he's very obviously modelled his T'challa on the screen version. Such that the little scene early on, where the king gets to meet a little kid dressed up as him and see what an inspiration he's been, now tugs the heartstrings to a degree which could never have been predicted a year back.
As per always Deadpool never fails to make me laugh. This time he needs to go to Wakanda for a small piece of vibranium to fix the issue he caused back home. One goal turns out to be more difficult than he had planned. Both Black Panther and Deadpool learn something new that they didn't know before, or thought they knew well. One thing they didn't forget though is how to fight. From the moment Deadpool sets foot in Wakanda mayhem is there to follow as always. .
Storytelling, action and humour were blended together really well in this.
I don't always go for these Deadpool vs stories. But with an extreme mature Black Panther as the co-star I felt it really worked pretty well...with stakes that most Marvel fans would find stressful.
Panterapool! Panterapool, minha gente! Um Deadpool com os apetrecho do Pantera Negra! Pelamor das crianças de Wakanda! Não adianta, as histórias do Deadpoll ou são MUITO boas ou são MUITO ruins. Como a proporção de boas é muito menos que a de ruins, acho que a melhor solução é ficar longe das histórias do mercenário tagarela, não é mesmo. Isso porque vejamos esta edição de Deadpool versus Pantera Negra. É escrita por Daniel Kibblesmith de quem eu nunca ouvi falar na vida, mas que não entende nem de Deadpool e nem de Pantera Negra. Afinal, tudo que ele trouxe de elemento dos dois personagens são coisas que estão nos filmes e não nos quadrinhos. Bem complicado isso de roteirista que não faz o dever de casa. Achou muito engraçadinho fazer um Deadpool Pantera Negra mesclado. Aff! Depois temos o desenhista Ricardo Lopez Ortiz de quem eu acabei pegando nojinho depois que li aquele quadrinho idiotesco da Hit-Girl e que foi escrito mesmo pelo próprio Mark Millar Himself. Complicado essas minisséries caça-níqueis energúmenas do Deadpool, hein, vou te contar! Esconjuro!
7/10: This was a really enjoyable story that took great care to focus on both titular characters: Black Panther and Deadpool. I loved seeing T’Challa and Wade interact, it’s not a duo you see too often, but it’s certainly interesting and engaging.
The art style is definitely funky, but I respect it. While it’s not a favorite of mine, I do admire the unique take and the impact it has on the overall story.
Pretty much what you would expect when royalty and an unfiltered mercenary link up... just a mess. This certainly had fun moments for Deadpool, but I feel like you could have fit just about anyone in this story and it would have had the same result.
In »Deadpool vs. Black Panther: Für eine Handvoll Vibranium« zeigt Daniel Kibblesmith eindrucksvoll was passiert, wenn ein rotzfrecher Antiheld daherkommt und auf einmal zu verklickern versucht, dass er ein Stück des wertvollsten Rohstoffes der Welt für die Heilung eines seiner Opfer benötigt und dabei auf den stolzen und zumeist klug handelnden König Wakandas trifft.
Vor dem hoch entwickelten Setting des afrikanischen Landes Wakanda entbrennt zwischen Deadpool und Black Panther eine handfeste Prügelei, als der ehemalige Söldner Wade Wilson versucht ein Stück des Vibraniums zu stehlen. Natürlich nur mit den besten Vorsätzen und ganz in Deadpool-Manier, mit jederzeit einem flotten Spruch auf den maskierten Lippen.
In den Panels nimmt Ricardo Lopez Ortiz die Action aus diesem mitreißenden Zweikampf auf, und jagt die Helden der Geschichte durch die Handlung. Die kurzweilige und spannende Storyline hat mir wirklich gut gefallen, auch wenn in meinen Augen Deadpool in dieser Geschichte eine deutlich bessere Figur abgibt als König T’Challa in seinem Raubkatzenkostüm.
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Ein kurzweiliges wie auch unterhaltsames Superhelden-Comic-Abenteuer!
Another one in the series and this time with Black Panther. Same with Gambit, this one is also a really weird paring. Although, I think this one is better than the Gambit one. It isn't a good book though, far from it. But like most of them, has some fub moments and it is decent at the end.
The characters in the story are suprisingly quite good here. They do attempt to fleshed out its characters and that I suprisingly appreciated. The jokes are actually decent and some did worked. The action in it is okay and the fight between them was also suprisingly decent.
The artwork though feels very weird, like it isn't bad, but there are times that I just don't understand it. Like it may be the colors of the book or something. But there are moments here where I was very mixed about the artwork. The villain also feels very shoehorned as well.
So in the end, it isn't a bad story. They did try to fleshed out its characters and has some funny dialogues as well. There are still some aspects here though that I'am mixed with and that is what I feel about this book. It is a mixed bag for me overall. It is one that is just an okay book imo.
5-stars as a Deadpool graphic novel. 3-stars when it comes to graphic novels as a genre. Basically, this was exactly what I wanted from a Black Panther vs. Deadpool story. There was a ton of goofiness and fourth-wall breaks (my favorite!) but also some time for a bit of introspection with each character.(Black Panther, with his role as Wakanda's guardian; and Deadpool, with his doubts about whether he's a "good person.") This story had great balance between the craziness we want from Deadpool, but also with enough "seriousness" to ground it so that we're still invested. And, of course... this book delivered on the laughs. I actually laughed out loud at one part (Deadpool stealing Black Panther's arms-crossed thing in the movie). (LOL!) I actually took a picture of that panel; very funny and clever! So, yeah... if you're yearning for another "vs." story (that also perfectly pokes fun at "vs" stories), then this is definitely one I'd recommend.
Anyway. Fan of Deadpool? You read it. Fan of Black Panther? Dunno.... maybe.
+1 star just cuz on the first meeting of Deadpool in Wakanda in front of Black Panther on his throne with his army on the sides, Deadpool goes "HAKUNA MATATA".
Mejor de lo que esperaba. Vamos, es un cómic de Deadpool vs. otro personaje, y todos sabemos de la calidad baja de estas historias. Pero esta me hizo reír varias veces, es bastante entretenida y tuvo momentos emotivos. Me gustó el arte y cómo están escritos Deadpool y Black Panther. No es el cómic que cambiará el mundo obviamente. Pero si lo estás pensando leer es porque te gusta Deadpool y estas historias te entretienen. No hay mucho más que decir, la historia es como las otras del tipo Vs. Deadpool y Black Panther se enfrentan, de ahí algo los lleva a unirse y se enfrentan contra esa amenaza. Aquí alteran un poco esa fórmula y eso me gustó. Obviamente tenemos a Deadpool con un nuevo traje, porque era obvio que nos iban a dar ese fan service. También tenemos varias referencias a las películas, incluyendo la de Black Panther, tanto Shuri como T'Challa se parecen a sus contrapartes del MCU, eso no les gusta a todos pero a mí me da igual. También sabemos que está en continuidad del universo 616 porque Shuri usa sus poderes de Griot y hacen referencia a que regresó del mundo de los muertos. De los tomos de peleas de Deadpool me gustó más que Deadpool Vs Old Man Logan que fue uno de los más recientes que leí.
I knew going in that this was going to be a silly book since, duh, it's Deadpool, but this was particularly unfulfilling for one reason or another. As is the case of many such crossovers, the writing team contrived a silly reason for Deadpool to travel to Wakanda and tried to cover this up by referencing the crossover formula the book was following, which really isn't an excuse for it? I get it, it tries to deliver on expectations but at the same time it really didn't bring anything new to the table apart from maybe seeing Deadpool in a Black Panther suit.
Throwing in a villain later in the mini-series felt even more contrived but I guess it was better than nothing. So, on the whole, it's just a lot of okay, but nothing amazing.
A perfect read for Valentine's Day and Black History Month!
This was a better fight/team-up than BvS! It was funny, action-packed and even had some weight to it! Yay for poignant moments! Deadpool and Black Panther are such an unlikely pair and a chaotic duo; I'd love to see them team-up again in the future. What I liked about this miniseries is that it didn't have continuity baggage (that I was aware of), and it kinda subverted what one would expect from a story where 2 comic book characters square off. The artwork by Ricardo Lopez-Ortiz is an acquired taste, but the action sequences looked good and even Deadpool's new suit that he gets later looks snazy.
Overall, it's a damn shame we'll never see something like this in live-action.
BLACK PANTHER VS. DEADPOOL Some moments of LOL dialogue, but you have to Wade through much to find it.
#1 – A Small Misunderstanding Deadpool masquerading as an elephant .. “MOO!” . #2 – A Big Fight
. #3 – A Mutual Threat “I’m warning you, WHISKERS. Take one more step..” . #4 – A Classic Marvel Team-Up! – or Something “Hey, T’Challa – how you like MEOW?” “WAKANDA person cuts off a dude’s head?!” . #5 – Take Down the Bad Guy! “DEADPOOL! Get out of the ROAD [of an incoming truck]” – BP “You’re not the king of ME!” – DP …. {BANG!}
Había dejado de seguir lo nuevo de Deadpool hace unos años, desde que le pusieron a una hija, como que no hacía tanto sentido con su personaje. Pero ya le quitaron relevancia a la Eleanor y adaptaron al DP bien.
En fin, está bueno, buen humor Deadpool-style y buen estilo de ilustración. De hecho, sin pedo el humor es lo más relevante de la serie para mi: había perdido -para mi gusto- algo del cinismo, referencias picosas y humor negro característico de Deadpool, en esta serie tienen muy buenos chistes rompiendo y sin romper la 4ta barrera.
Ojalá saquen más series pero que no sean ya de VS, ya chole.
A wildly fun story for "T'Challa" you 'Pool and Panther fans! (Sorry for the pun but not really.)
Kibblesmith really knocks the writing out of the park here. Lots of great Deadpool antics, sure, but also including a very nice subplot about T'Challa discussing the possibility of being an immortal King of Wakanda.
The art has a fun frantic feel to it whenever Deadpool is the focus, like reality is less real from Wade's perspective.
A delightful miniseries overall, well worth your time!
Gotta ding this one hard for the art. More like controlled scribbles than serious art. I would have leaned toward 4 stars otherwise. The comedy of Deadpool is on point; loved his synopsis of how team-ups always work. Plenty of other 4th wall breaking quips, for those who like that. Kind of messed up that Wakanda gets to spy on everyone, yet gets to lecture on morals and justice. Follow the ratings: no littles on this one.
I loved the art style, it looks like the panels came off a storyboard. Made T'Challa look more gaunt in the face than I've seen in other comics. Deadpool is a fantastic chaotic character, he's trying to play the nice guy, but Black Panther knows Deadpool is more of a killer and thief than Deadpool is willing to come to terms with. Fantastic read, perfect for Black Panther fans and Deadpool fans.
I was a little 'meh' on the art (T'challa always looked like a pissed off cat), but pretty solid Deadpool comic over all. I read this partly because I like the Deadpool vs series of comics, but also becasue Daniel Kibblesmith is writing the upcoming Loki comic, and I wanted to see what he could do. Over all, pretty solid and I'm now really looking forward to his future works.
I'm not too sure that this isn't a cash-in as stated by Deadpool. Haha. It works on a goofy level. There are parts that just don't make sense and hit the elements that can be wondrous in a Black Panther title but pure silliness in the hands of a Deadpool title. The mad science element for example is pushed in ways that is purely ridiculous and makes me wonder if the artist just liked zebras.
This book is really good. It does involve a zebra head as an arm and Deadpool trying to find Vibranium to cure a person and a weird Pantherpool, but, it's pretty much fine. Deadpool's choice of killing Jack-o-lantern was logical, but Black Panther kind of objects to it. This just shows the difference in their moral codes.
Gosh, how I missed reading Deadpool! It's a shame that our library has to choose witch comics to purchase - I'd like to read more Deadpool than what we have on shelves.
This one didn't quite satisfy me - I mean, there was definetly some serious Pool-Action but something seemed be missing.
Hilarious as most Deadpool books tend to be. Wade fights for a silly cause that could be resolved much easier, silly antics ensue and before you know it, the matter is resolved with a solid final joke.