2010 might be the year of Spider-man, but March is definitely Deadpool appreciation month. But is he really that interesting a character to warrent this kind of exposure?
Yes, I'll grant you that deadpool is cool, and people do love Deadpool, and for good reason; He’s a funny character and when he's well written he's an amazing post-modern critique of the comic book genre. The only problem is that now Marvel knows just how much the fans like him they seem like they are going to take the ball and run with it… for miles and miles past the end zone, straight through the stadium wall, down the highway all the way to the end of the earth itself.
I mean, the solicits are in, and in March we’re going to be seeing FIVE separate Deadpool comics released.Five of them. That's a lot. and it's not just the merc with the mouth we'll be seeing either, we're also getting he Deadpool Corps. Deadpool, Lady Deadpool, the head of Zombie Deadpool, Kidpool, and an as-of-yet unnamed dog with a Deadpool costume (Dogpool, perhaps. Maybe Deadpup.)
Marvel is flooding the market with Deadpool in a most biblical fashion. At the rate we're going the only people who will be left reading the books will be Noah his three sons and a boat load of animals. Meaning not-good sales. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Deadpool. But I fear the fans are going to get sick of this really quick. It’s been hard enough getting people to care about the three on goings that Marvel has already been putting out, how many more books can Marvel put out before people stop reading?
Let’s look at it this way: We know the more resilient fans are going to hang in there. But the less resilient, i.e. normal fans, will likely get a little irritated with this and decide to take a little break from the Deadpool surge.
You can only stretch some characters so thin before they snap. Maybe that’s why Marvel does this with Wolverine and Deadpool: choose the characters with the healing factors because they can survive it.