Comedians/comic writers Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan (with Tony Moore on art) will send the Merc with a Mouth on an insane mission in a brand new Deadpool #1. The new Marvel NOW! creative team sends Wade Wilson against zombified dead Presidents as an agent of SHIELD. The writers tell IGN how they met and why Deadpool.
“We met at a comic shop, actually. Around ten years ago now, around the back issue bin. Obviously we were both lifelong Marvel fans up to that point. Deadpool has always occupied that space of action and comedy that doesn’t exist elsewhere in comics. I think that’s why he resonated with us,” Duggan says.
“Yeah, he was kind of the obvious choice for us. We both can be serious too, and we’ve talked about writing a more serious book down the line, but it felt like the way to get the foot in the door was to do the thing that we’re both good at. And Deadpool is really the only game in town where you can do both things that we enjoy doing – tell an action story but also have the main character be a smart-ass,” Posehn adds.
The duo says Rick Remender introduced them to Editor in Chief Axel Alonso leading to the Deadpool relaunch.
Back to that crazy concept of Deadpool versus Undead Presidents…
“It starts with a man who has decided that America has a lot of problems that can only be fixed by bringing back our former leaders, our great American Presidents. But that’s not how it works out. Once they’re back, they have a completely different idea of what they need to do and what the country needs. It’s a distasteful job having to send our presidents back, but Deadpool is up for the job and is suited for it. They’re not equal in terms of their planning, but in their own way they have returned corrupted. We think it’s going to be a very fun first story that leads to other funny stories,” Duggan tells Marvel.com.
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