Joe Kelly is no stranger to Deadpool, having written what many consider an unsurpassed run on the character's solo title in the late 1990s that solidified Wade Wilson's status as a marquee Marvel character, which he's maintained ever since. Kelly has occasionally returned to Deadpool's orbit, most notably in the 2016-2017 Spider-Man/Deadpool series, which saw Wade teaming up with Spider-Man, a hero he looks up to.
That was how it was with this. Mark called up and said,"We want to do this Deadpool/Wolverine thing, and what do you think about working with Adam?" And it's like, okay, well that's it. Here's a magic formula right there. I love Adam, and I haven't gotten to do a lot of Wolverine stuff -- I wrote him in X-Men, but obviously as one piece of a much bigger tapestry -- so those elements were cool.
I think it goes back to probably where I was on this series, to begin with. My favorite version of Deadpool, for me -- has nothing to do with what other people do because I think people have done amazing work with this character -- but I like this tortured clown version where, yeah, he's funny, I love a funny Deadpool, but there's always something dark going on beneath the surface.
Yeah, that's 100% true. Taking that as a character basis for these guys and as a driver for the story, and then you get into this wonderful stuff about these are probably two of the most indestructible characters in the Marvel universe, which makes for a lot of opportunity for really savage action. And this thing gets brutal -- over-the-top brutal -- which I find hard to say without laughing because it makes me giddy how nasty we can beat these characters and they'll bounce back.
Well, I was so excited to get to work with Adam again. It had been a long time since we had done a book together, and I know he's good at everything. I mean, he's literally good at everything. Part of it is letting him know that, when it comes to the storytelling and the collaborative aspects of putting a comic together, I trust him implicitly. Whatever he wants to do works.
If he does these things, at least sometimes, for the entertainment of others, are we talking about a showman-style villain in the vein of Arcade or Mojo? With Wolverine, I wouldn't exactly say it's a darker mirror. They're cut from the same cloth, but one had guiding hands that helped them back into a lighter place, and the other didn't.
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