Marvel Comics

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.

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.