Deadpool
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Includes dusk jacket. Read once, then sat on bookshelf. Looks like it did when I bought it.
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Deadpool is superhero comics', and perhaps literature in general’s, most consistently challenging fictional engagement with cancer. Deadpool’s healing factor prevents his cancer from ever being cured, which traps him in a never-ending cycle of remission and relapse.
Unlike a superhero who responds to a bodily transformation by self-sacrificingly upholding the status quo, Deadpool is a mercenary and anti-hero. In this collection, writer Joe Kelly creates much of the narrative infrastructure that eventually made the character one of Marvel’s most popular.
Kelly also crafts a story where Deadpool is offered a heroic transformation that—through personal weakness, history, bad luck,…
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