Liefeld Takes A Couple Of Shots At FOX

[Derrick]

I'll be switched if I can figure out why he's so worried. Deadpool is such a poor character that anything FOX could do to him could only make him better.

And actually, the only time I've ever liked the character was in the X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE movie.


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[james]

Dec 3, 2010 23:47:33 GMT -5 Derrick said:

I'll be switched if I can figure out why he's so worried. Deadpool is such a poor character that anything FOX could do to him could only make him better.

And actually, the only time I've ever liked the character was in the X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE movie.


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Joe Kelly's reinvention of Deadpool, from Liefeld's bald Deathstroke copy to a fourth-wall breaking mischief-maker aware of his existence as a character in a comic book, was terrific. But no other writer has has been able to replicate Kelly's magic. The only reason Deadpool has a following among comic book fans is Kelly's work, not Liefeld's (he may have invented the character, who again, was originally an imitation, but Liefeld's Deadpool had no personality whatsoever).


James

[Dino]

Dec 3, 2010 23:47:33 GMT -5 Derrick said:

I'll be switched if I can figure out why he's so worried. Deadpool is such a poor character that anything FOX could do to him could only make him better./

You've mentioned this a lot but I have to ask -- have you ever read Joe Kelly's run? You said you liked Reynolds as Deadpool and his performance was 100% taken from Kelly's depiction of the character.

Check out some of the early issues of that run. You can get them in the Deadpool Classic vol. 2 TPB. Hell, I've got digital versions of them, I'll gladly send them to you.

Don't let poor writers trying to be funny (and failing miserably) color your perceptions of a character who can be relentlessly entertaining.