Robserecaps Twenty Eight – episode 62 the Making of Deadpool part two
by Joe
Let’s stay motivated as the Rob continues his tales of the origins and influence of Deadpool. If you’ve never checked out the Rob’s podcast, what’s stopping ya?
- There was stuff I left off the previous episode where the Rob just reads a letter David Michelinie wrote about creator’s rights and Wizard Magazine interviews with Fabian Nicieza (who the Rob just calls ‘the plotter’) about what he added to the characters the Rob created
- the Rob also had big plans for Tollivar, being a Jabba the Hutt like character in Cable’s life, citing Bob Harris (his editor at the time) calls the Vanessa/Domino reveal bigger than the Stryfe/Cable one
- the Rob calls 2021 Deadpool’s 30th anniversary opportunity
- Bit of a digression back to the origins of Cable, claiming people always try to play ‘GOTCHA’ with the Rob in where he gets his influence from, but he claims to always be forthcoming about those things
- Todd McFarlane would taunt the Rob about how easily he could whip up a Spider-Man splash page which was the impetuous for the design on Deadpool
- “The Spider-Man of my youth was not very prevalent in 1990” because of darker comics like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns which I do not think is correct
- Iron Man was never a “funny character” until the movies
- the Joe Kelly/Ed McGuinness Deadpool solo book was a middling book, sales wise. The Rob claims he stole McGuinness away for Fighting American after three issues, but was actually nine
- If you like the ‘breaks the fourth wall’ Deadpool, that’s Joe Kelly, if you like the ‘cuts off your arms and legs and wisecracks’ that’s all the Rob
- Deadpool started to become ‘parody’ once Howard the Duck villains like Doctor Bong showed up in his book
- Axel Alonzo, then Editor in Chief at Marvel, contacted the Rob in 2009 about pitching a Lady Deadpool
- Deadpool was essentially seen as the Road Runner, not unlike Vince McMahon calling the WWF “Action Adventure Soap Opera Road Runner” at this time at Marvel and the Rob wanted to get him back to his roots
- one of Deadpool’s biggest things holding him back is he doesn’t have a dedicated, non-reverse version, arch nemesis. No Sabretooth, no Joker, no Lex Luthor. The Rob introduced such a character in the Bad Blood graphic novel, Thumper
- the Rob’s favorite Deadpool writer is Ryan Reynolds
- When the Death of Deadpool comic was announced, the Rob had to explain to Ryan Reynolds how death in comics really works
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