Daniel Way

Thunderbolts Red Omnibus collects Marvel's most violent super-team experiment: General "Thunderbolt" Ross, the Red Hulk, drafting the deadliest antiheroes in the Marvel Universe — Punisher, Deadpool, Elektra and Venom — into a black-ops squad that fights fire with fire. Daniel Way launches the concept and Charles Soule takes it to its sharpest point, adding Ghost Rider for the "No Mercy" arc. Steve Dillon, the legendary Preacher and Punisher artist, gives the whole run its blunt, brutal edge. The complete 2012–2014 series in one oversized volume.

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.