Both DC and Marvel have been cutting down titles recently, some long over due and others to our chagrin. Nevertheless, it seems like both companies want to focus on their bigger properties, especially with both of them having films out this summer. Of course, one of Marvel’s biggest properties has become Deadpool, with fans crawling out of the woodwork once it was announced that he would be in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and a possible spin-off film (still in the works), and it wasn’t long before Deadpool titles were all almost anyone could see: Deadpool, Deadpool Team-Up, Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth, The Deadpool Corps (and it’s prelude), as well as one-shots like Deadpool Family and Lady Deadpool (not to mention a Hit-Monkey spin-off).
However, earlier today we informed you that Deadpool MAX was no a mini. If you take that information with Marvel previously having allowed fans to cancel a series (which may have been rigged), resulting in the cancellation of Deadpool Team-Up as well as the ensuing inevitable end of Deadpool Corps. A look at the solicits for May 2011 reveal that there are only three Deadpool titles coming up for May (not including any additional appearances he might have, like in Uncanny X-Force): Deadpool Annual #1, the aforementioned DeadpoolMAX #8, and Deadpool #37, whose solicit reads as such:
Written by DANIEL WAY
Penciled by BONG DAZO
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
“OPERATION: ANNIHILIATION,” PART 1
The end begins here! Deadpool has now fixated on achieving the one thing that’s always been beyond his reach–death. Not an easy thing for an un-killable man to achieve, but that’s not gonna stop him from trying. But first, he must figure out the all-important question: How? What in the world can kill Deadpool? It has to be big. It has to be powerful beyond description. It has to be…green?
“The end begins here”, you say? The end to what? Deadpool’s ongoing? Daniel Way’s run? Or is this just a marketing line? Anything is generally possible in comics, but Marvel may have decided to pull the plug on all the Deadpool stories out there. The character has had three ongoings now (the most recent one being his third), and his representation has devolved from a three dimensional merc with a side of insanity to a running slapstick character that it seems fans have had their fill of. While I highly doubt Deadpool will be able to kill himself considering he is a main character in Uncanny X-Force, it’ll be interesting to see what Marvel means by “the end.”
