Marvel Collects Deadpool's First Original Graphic Novel in New Hardcover Edition

Deadpool: Bad/Badder Blood collects some of co-creator Rob Liefeld's final Deadpool stories.

By Cameron Bonomolo - August 18, 2024 05:20 pm EDT

Rob Liefeld's Deadpool is going out with a bang. 35 years after the Merc with a Mouth debuted in the pages of 1990's New Mutants #98, Marvel Comics will collect Deadpool: Bad Blood — Deadpool's first-ever original graphic novel co-written and penciled by Liefeld — and Deadpool: Badder Blood in one hardcover collection next year. The co-creator returned to Deadpool for 2017's Bad Blood, which was serialized in comics form as a four-issue limited series in 2022, and its 2023 sequel that introduced Mojoworld mercenary Shatterstorm.

Out March 25th, 2025, the Deadpool: Bad/Badder Blood hardcover collects Deadpool: Bad Blood (2022) #1-4 and Deadpool: Badder Blood (2023) #1-5. The 264-page collected edition retails for $49.99.

(Photo: Deadpool: Bad/Badder Blood cover artwork by Rob Liefeld.
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Marvel Comics is also set to publish a new printing of the X-Force Omnibus Vol. 1— featuring the works of Liefeld, Fabian Nicieza, Todd McFarlane, Mark Pacella, Mike Mignola, and John Romita Jr. — in December. Both releases coincide with Liefeld's final Deadpool comic, Deadpool Team-Up, written and drawn by Liefeld and guest-starring Wolverine, Hulk, Crystar, Ghost-Spider, and Liefeld creation Major X. The five-issue series hits stands August 28th and runs through December.

"I 1000% believe it," Liefeld told ComicBook at 2024 San Diego Comic-Con when asked if Deadpool Team-Up is his final Deadpool project. "I'll be 60 in four years. I don't know how long the hand and eye coordination is going to take. I've had a great last solid 10 years giving great Deadpool stories that fans love. Deadpool charted No. 1 for the first time in 2017 with my Deadpool: Bad Blood. That was huge. I didn't see that coming."

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Deadpool Team-Up #1 (2024) cover by Liefeld.
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Deadpool Team-Up "is a crazy goodbye," the Image Comics co-founder added. "If I pitched this, [Marvel would be] like, 'Next.' But because I'm Rob, they're like, 'Go ahead and do it, it's your last one.' It's so far from trying to be cool or trying to be hot. It's just a blast. It's weird, it's strange, don't miss it. That's it. I have nothing more to say with this character. I love him. [After] 33 years, now I'll just watch other people do what they're doing."

Deadpool: Bad/Badder Blood Hardcover Collected Edition

Wade Wilson has been shooting, stabbing and otherwise annoying people for a long time. He's made a lot of enemies. But one he can't quite place is the brutal Thumper, who keeps showing up out of the blue to pound him into jelly! What is Deadpool's past connection to this beefy face-masher? Wade has as much of a clue as you do! Maybe Domino can help uncover Thumper's secrets before Wade gets his keister kicked again? Or perhaps answers can be found in a secret mission from years ago that brought Deadpool and X-Force together! But when Thumper returns for the rematch, Wolverine and Cable step in for a daring rescue mission. Who is the mysterious, blade-brandishing Shatterstorm?! And is that…Venompool?!

Hardcover
$49.99 US
Marvel | Marvel Universe
7-1/4"W x 10-7/8"H | 20 oz | 18 per carton
On sale Mar 25, 2025 | 264 Pages | 9781302961190
Rated T+

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