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" Deadpool was introduced as a mercenary and a bounty hunter... because I was so crazy for Boba Fett when I was a kid. "
Rob Liefeld
Kid
Because
Crazy
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" I've loved Hawkman since I was really young. "
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" Deadpool does not exist in any way, shape, or form without me. "
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" I'll be on the street and go up to people - 'Have you read a comic book before? Well, here's one.' You've got your pro-life people, your pro-choice people, your feminists. I'm a comicbooks activist. "
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" If you spend 90 seconds with Ryan Reynolds, you know he's Deadpool. There is no one else on the planet that has any business being that character, ever. "
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" 'X-Force' #1 sold 5 million copies. By default, the second issue dipped and did 1.3 million copies. But the cover of 'X-Force' #2 is Deadpool. It's not X-Force, It's Deadpool. "
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" 'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves. "
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" I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic. "
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" Domino is all about... as an actress and as the character that is going to be on the screen, you already allude to it: it's all about the sass. "
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" My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent. "
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" We've gotten into this 'family friend' space, and 'Deadpool' trashes it. "
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" I ended up making my name at Marvel, but I've always desired greater access to the DCU characters. Bottom line: I'm a huge fan. "
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" You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters. "
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" Unapologetically, absent me, there is no Deadpool. Period. I am the name, the costume, the look, the origin, and the attitude. Great one-liners are the result of other writers. But there's no Deadpool at all in existence without me. "
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Attitude
Great
" I truly believe there's all the Deadpools that have existed, and there's Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool, who is now the Deadpool for the world. He owns that voice. "
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Believe
" 'Deadpool' took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and my patience more than anything I could've imagined because the screenplay was so good. "
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" Give me a celebrity, I'll give you your haters. Some people shine, and some people don't like when they shine. Ask Barack Obama - he'll tell you. "
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Shine
People
Me
" I've been as much a DC guy as anything else my entire fan life. "
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Fan
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" I started thinking, 'What if Superman or Batman really existed?' Superman would be doing Nike commercials. The members of Youngblood take the genre of super-heroes and turn it into a business. "
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Doing
" I am a huge fan of all things Mondo, and when the opportunity to illustrate a Mondo print celebrating the 'Deadpool' film presented itself, I leapt at the chance! "
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" I know, for some people, 2016 was entirely miserable. And I'm like, 'Does it have to end?' Because over here in the Liefeld corner, it's been phenomenal. "
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Weaponry
Lot
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" My role as an artist helps me tremendously in breaking down each story. Pacing, layout, movement - having drawn a few thousand pages, I understand the language of comic books very well. "
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Dog
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" Long before it was 'Raided' and 'Lost' with Indiana Jones, the Ark of the Covenant was originally stolen from the Israelites by The Philistines; The Ark of the Covenant was the nuclear bomb of its age: when activated, it was devastating. "
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