Marvel to launch new ‘Deadpool’ comic book to accompany movie

The five-issue ‘Deadpool’ and the ‘Mercs for Money’ will see ‘Deadpool’ hire his own mercenaries to find the most valuable object in existence. When ‘Deadpool’ arrives in movie theatres next year, Marvel Entertainment plans to use the character’s newfound success to introduce audiences to some of its other mercenary characters via the newly announced ‘Deadpool’ […]

The five-issue ‘Deadpool’ and the ‘Mercs for Money’ will see ‘Deadpool’ hire his own mercenaries to find the most valuable object in existence.
When ‘Deadpool’ arrives in movie theatres next year, Marvel Entertainment plans to use the character’s newfound success to introduce audiences to some of its other mercenary characters via the newly announced ‘Deadpool’ and the ‘Mercs for Money’ comic book series.
Written by ‘Uncanny X-Men’ writer, Cullen Bunn, with art by Salva Espin, the five-issue series will pit a team of mercenaries hired by ‘Deadpool’ – who, as part of Marvel’s ‘All-New, All-Different’ comic book re-launch, is now rich, famous and a member of the ‘Avengers’ – against what Bunn calls “dozens of the Marvel Universe’s deadliest assassins, cutthroats, and murderers” in a hunt for “the most valuable artefact in the universe.”
If this sounds like a romp, it’s meant to; Bunn told IGN that the series is ‘The Dirty Dozen’ and ‘The Expendables’ if ‘Deadpool’ was in charge instead of Lee Marvin or Sylvester Stallone… It’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ if, instead of rescuing a soldier, they were trying to make a metric tonne of cash.”
The series will run alongside the regular ‘Deadpool’ series starring in February, with the character also appearing in ‘Uncanny Avengers,’ ‘Spider-Man’/‘Deadpool’ and ‘Deadpool & Cable’ that month.
‘Deadpool’ will hit theatres Feb. 12.
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