Friday Flashback: New Mutants #98 - Deadpool's Debut
by Lucas Siegel
Date: 05 September 2008 Time: 03:20 PM ET
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The Merc-With-A-Mouth is back this month, in his all-new, all-solo ongoing series at Marvel. He’s had an ongoing before, most recently sharing the spotlight with fellow Liefeld-creation Cable, but we’re going to keep the focus on the addle-brained assassin, Deadpool.
Deadpool showed up just at the tail end of New Mutants. After Cable’s first appearance about a year earlier, the book had started to drift towards its eventual re-launch as X-Force. In New Mutants #98, a new player entered the fray. Well, three new players, actually, as Domino, Gideon, and Deadpool all made their first appearances in this issue. The book started with a nice cheesy workout sequence featuring Gideon. As he kicks robot butt, he mentions Sebastian Shaw, and Roberto DaCosta’s dad, both Hellfire Club bigshots, in a nice bit of foreshadowing for both this issue and his future. We progress into another training sequence (this is pretty much every issue of New Mutants from Cable’s first appearance on), before instant payoff on that foreshadowing, as DaCosta the elder is killed. Boom Boom and Rictor argue about Rahne’s fate in front of a random poster of Bart Simpson. Finally, it’s the moment everyone didn’t know they were waiting for, the arrival of the man in black (and red).