Marvel Comics

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.

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.

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.

Deadpool: Beginnings collects the mercenary's earliest appearances — from his New Mutants debut through his initial solo outings — before the character had fully evolved into the fourth-wall-breaking icon he would become. Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld created a character who was initially played fairly straight as a threat, and watching the early material shows how gradually the humor, self-awareness, and meta-commentary were layered onto what began as a fairly conventional 90s assassin concept.

This omnibus collects the crossover stories placing Deadpool within the orbit of X-Force — two of Marvel's most extreme 90s properties colliding in stories that use the mercenary's irreverence to comment on the grimly purposeful world Cable built around him. The contrast between Deadpool's chaos and X-Force's militant discipline produced some of the most entertaining comics of the era, with Fabian Nicieza's sharp dialogue ensuring the comedic potential was fully exploited.