Deadpool Modern Era Epic Collection: X X Baby

Continuing Daniel Way’s riotous run writing the Merc with a Mouth!

Deadpool wants to be two things in life: a pirate and an X-Man! So, after a stint on the high seas, he decides to make the X-Men love him by...assassinating the father of one of their students?! Then Wade Wilson pays a visit to a certain wisecracking wall-crawler’s friendly neighborhood — or is it? Deadpool doesn’t play second banana to anybody, especially not Spider-Man! But Wade had better deal if he wants to survive the threat of Hit-Monkey! Neither X-Man nor Amazing Friend, is Deadpool fit to stand alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes? When Doctor Bong clones the Secret Avengers, Deadpool must fight beside the real deals — and try not to shoot the wrong guys! Plus: A bunch of good Draculas hire Deadpool to fight a bunch of bad Draculas!

COLLECTING: Deadpool (2008) #13-31

Written by Daniel Way & Duane Swierczynski
Penciled by Shawn Crystal, Paco Medina, Carlo Barberi, Tan Eng Huat, Philip Bond & Bong Dazo

Writer Daniel Way has been one of Marvel’s most prolific and influential writers, making a career of crafting defining stories for some of the House of Ideas’ most popular characters. He is best known for lengthy runs on Ghost Rider and Deadpool, and took a turn at Marvel’s most deadly father-son team in Wolverine: Origins and Dark Wolverine (co-written with Marjorie Liu). Way has also helped shed light on some of the Marvel Universe’s darker corners, bringing back Starr the Slayer, introducing the world to Hit-Monkey, showcasing the assassin Bullseye’s “Greatest Hits,” declaring open season on Sabretooth and exploring the world of Supreme Power’s ruthless vigilante Nighthawk in various limited series, as well as adding Deadpool to the roster of his reinvention of the Thunderbolts.

Writer Duane Swierczynski broke out as a crime-fiction novelist with 2005’s Secret Dead Men. It was promptly followed by The Wheel Man, The Blonde and Severance Package. Flush from his success as a novelist, Swierczynski brought his crime style to comics with work on Moon Knight, Cable and The Immortal Iron Fist.

While working as a professor at the prestigious Savannah College of Art and Design, Shawn Crystal has contributed art to a variety of comics projects — including Birds of Prey Secret Files, Resident Evil: Fire and Ice, Negative Burn and the comic adaptation of the hit TV show Chuck.

While working as a professor at the prestigious Savannah College of Art and Design, Shawn Crystal has contributed art to a variety of comics projects — including Birds of Prey Secret Files, Resident Evil: Fire and Ice, Negative Burn and the comic adaptation of the hit TV show Chuck.