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Deadpool by Daniel Way: Merc With a Mouth, Chaos and the 2000s Marvel Machine

The run that pushes Deadpool into loud modern Marvel: comedy violence, unstable narration and franchise momentum across two omnibus volumes.

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Deadpool by Daniel Way is the run that turns Deadpool into a loud modern Marvel engine. It is not the original Joe Kelly foundation and it is not the later Duggan long game. Its job is different: push Wade Wilson into a bigger, noisier, more chaotic franchise mode.

This post focuses on Deadpool by Daniel Way Omnibus Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.

Deadpool by Daniel Way Omnibus Vol. 1

Vol. 1 establishes the run’s main mode: unstable narration, constant jokes, violence as rhythm and Wade treating the Marvel Universe like a place he can interrupt. The book is built around momentum more than elegance.

Deadpool by Daniel Way Omnibus Vol. 2

Vol. 2 completes that version of Deadpool as a franchise character. The later material keeps stretching the joke: how much chaos can Wade create before the comedy becomes the structure of the book itself?

How the Run Works

The two volumes work as a snapshot of Deadpool becoming a larger Marvel presence. Vol. 1 defines the voice. Vol. 2 pushes the formula until it becomes the point.

Who This Run Is For

  • If you want loud modern Deadpool: this shelf is central.
  • If you prefer darker, tighter Deadpool: Joe Kelly may suit you better.
  • If you want the franchise version of Wade: Way is a key step.

What This Run Leaves Behind

Daniel Way leaves Deadpool with a louder mainstream identity: chaotic, self-aware, violent and built for constant collision with Marvel around him.

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Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan's Deadpool run launched with Marvel NOW! in 2012 and became one of the era's defining titles — taking the character in a direction that honored Kelly's emotional complexity while fully embracing Way's comedic maximalism.
85.00 € 100.00 € -15%
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Deadpool by Daniel Way Omnibus Vol. 2

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Daniel Way's second omnibus volume continues his record-breaking Deadpool run through the Deadpool Corps concept — a multiverse team of Deadpool variants including Lady Deadpool, Kidpool, Dogpool, and the genuinely inspired Headpool — and into the post-Siege Marvel landscape. Way stretched the franchise concept to its logical extreme while maintaining a consistent comedic voice across the massive cast of self-aware killers, and the Corps concept proved popular enough to spawn its own spinoff series.
85.00 € 100.00 € -15%
Notify me
Deadpool by Daniel Way Omnibus Vol. 1

Deadpool by Daniel Way Omnibus Vol. 1

Daniel Way's Deadpool run launched in 2008 and defined the character for a generation of readers who came to Marvel through the film era — it's the run that pushed the fourth-wall breaking and comedic irreverence to their most extreme expression, making Deadpool one of Marvel's best-selling characters in the process. Way's first volume drops the mercenary into the Secret Invasion event and then into a sustained antagonistic relationship with Norman Osborn's Dark Reign, finding endless comedy in Deadpool's attempts to be taken seriously as a professional assassin.
85.00 € 100.00 € -15%
Notify me
Deadpool & Co. Omnibus

Deadpool & Co. Omnibus

Deadpool & Co. collects the mercenary's team-up stories — the one-off and short-run collaborations with other Marvel characters that showcase the creative comedy potential in placing Deadpool against established heroes and villains with wildly different tones.
100.00 € 125.00 € -20%
Notify me
Deadpool & Cable Omnibus

Deadpool & Cable Omnibus

Fabian Nicieza's Cable & Deadpool series is the rare superhero buddy-comedy that actually works — pairing the grimly messianic Cable with the anarchically self-aware Deadpool, the book used the contrast between two characters who shared a creator but couldn't be more different in temperament.
100.00 € 125.00 € -20%
Notify me
Deadpool Classic Omnibus Vol. 1

Deadpool Classic Omnibus Vol. 1

The Deadpool Classic series presents the character's early publication history in a format designed for readers who want to engage with the foundational material before diving into the major creative runs. This first volume covers the mercenary's transition from supporting villain to featured character, with material from multiple creators working through what Deadpool could be before Joe Kelly's run crystallized the character into his definitive form.
100.00 € 125.00 € -20%
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Joe Kelly's Deadpool run is the creative moment that transformed a 90s mercenary character into something genuinely literary — Kelly introduced the fourth-wall awareness as a systematic device, gave Deadpool his signature voice, and wrote the first truly great Deadpool story in issue #11's time-travel team-up with the Golden Age hero, which remains one of the most moving single issues in the character's history. Kelly balanced comedy and tragedy in a way that no subsequent writer has fully replicated, and his Deadpool is the template against which every later run is measured.
100.00 € 125.00 € -20%
Notify me
Deadpool: Beginnings Omnibus

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