With Deadpool/Wolverine dominating the box office for the past several months, it should come as no surprise that this superhero Odd Couple pairing has seen a resurgence in Marvel's comic book universe as well. Marvel fans got a taste of what happens when Wade Wilson and Logan share the page in the miniseries Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII . Now it's time for the main course.
IGN can exclusively reveal Deadpool/Wolverine, a new ongoing, monthly series featuring the further adventures of these two bloodthirsty anti-heroes. The series will reunite X-Force writer Benjamin Percy and artist Joshua Cassara, as the two characters are once again brought together to deal with a returning X-Men villain and new revelations about their shared history. Check out the cover to Deadpool/Wolverine #1 below, and read on to learn more about the new series from Percy himself: As mentioned, this new series serves as a reunion for Percy and Cassara, as the two previously explored Wolverine's misadventures as part of the Krakoa-era X-Force squad.
Unsurprisingly, Percy was thrilled to be able to rekindle that partnership with Deadpool/Wolverine. "Josh and I really hit it off when we were working together on X-Force and became great friends," Percy tells IGN. "When he made the jump to X-Men, it was honestly a little traumatic for us both—but if you get the opportunity to draw a flagship title, you have to go for it.
And he drew the living shit out of that series. We never stopped texting or hanging ou.