I've found a deep appreciation for a comic book character in the last few year. This character is crazy, funny, a highly effective killer, has an inferiority complex to Wolverine, and is even aware that he is in fact a comic book character. Yet, I have never read any of this character's comics. Instead, my experience has been with him inside of video games and the Hulk Vs Wolverine cartoon. This character is of course Deadpool, and though I have not read any of the comics (although I have looked up information upon them) I've developed a strong liking for the character.

I don't have a typewriter, but I do have a keyboard

This past weekend, came a new reason to take an interest in the character. At San Diego Comic-Con, High Moon Studios had teased that they were going to be a making a Hit Monkey game. They managed to play this up through a web image implying that Hit Monkey was indeed the game they were making, as well as saying that their panel would be about making the Hit Monkey game. That was when HE struck.

"I am not Kanye West. I'm really happy for you, but I will not let you finish"

So, the Hit Monkey game was a hoax and High Moon is really working on a Deadpool game. Not a whole lot was shown of how the game might actually play, but what was shown looks to have the same level of off the wall humor that I have come to expect from anything featuring the merc with the mouth. As for the look of the game, it looks a lot like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was a solid game, if not a technically challenged one. There is a lot left to be seen with this game, but if it manages to deliver a comedic experience, along with the playability of a game like Wolverine, I will gladly purchase it.

The unedited trailer

This does bring up a good question though. Do you have to be familiar with the source material of a character to be able to fully appreciate the character. Recently, I read a review of the Amazing Spider-Man by Enigma on this site. In it he talked about how he had minimal exposure to the comics or cartoons, but had greatly enjoyed the Sam Raimi directed Spider-Man movies. Yet, he did not enjoy the portrayal of the character in the latest movie, which was more akin to how the character is represented in the source material. Initially, this seemed blasphemous to me, but is it any different than reading comics about a character by different writers/artists that change the character's personality, however slight? Characters in long running formats such as comics, movies, TV shows, and even video games have a tendency to change over time and this change is often more noticeable with a switch in format. Though despite these changes, if the spirit of the character remains intact, why shouldn't a person be fully capable of appreciating a characters?

My own lack of exposure to Deadpool comics is a direct result of there being only one comic store in Lincoln. That should not prevent me from appreciating what the character is about. Rather, it only serves to feed my desire to take in anything I can get my hands on relating to the character. So, here's to Deadpool. May he ever entertain.