There was a time when meta humor was considered the mark of a smart comedy. If a writer was able to successfully poke fun at the idea of making a joke, thereby adding a second layer to an already existing joke, savvy audiences felt like they being welcomed into a special club. They were the ones who really “got it.”…

Ryan Reynolds seems like one of those rare Hollywood types who might actually be as nice as his publicist wants you to believe. He’s very cute with his wife Blake Lively, he does nice things for his fans, and he even—wonder of wonders—seems to like the movies that he makes. (Uh, most of them.) And now he’s even got a…

Today, Fox announced that it was delaying the big-eyed androids of Alita: Battle Angel from December 21 to February 14, with an “untitled Deadpool movie” replacing it on the schedule. That’s crazy, of course, because Deadpool 2 just came out earlier this year and December is way too soon to have a brand new Deadpool …

After a troubled production and a relatively soft box-office for Solo, rumors began to emerge that the full-steam-ahead Star Wars franchise might take a quick breather. That sort of made sense, given the amount of rods they’ve got in the fire, so to speak: the J.J. Abrams-helmed flagship trilogy, the ongoing…

One of the nice things about a big, media-friendly event like the TCA press tour (currently rounding the corner into its final week of press release-unleashing hell) is that you can sometimes directly ask the people who make decisions about the TV you love why they did all those terrible things to the TV that you…

Donald Glover’s aborted Deadpool animated series continues to tantalize us with its permanently untapped potential, existing as a never-to-be-realized mash-up between one of the world’s most popular comic book characters and one of its most meteoric modern talents. The show’s sudden abandonment earlier this year feels…

Anyone who has been on a comic convention floor in the past 20 years knows there are a lot of superhero fans who wish they could be Deadpool. Marvel gives them the opportunity to step into Wade Wilson’s shoes in You Are Deadpool, an interactive weekly miniseries that combines a choose-your-own-adventure story with a…

[There are no plot spoilers for Deadpool 2 below, but it does spoil a couple of jokes, if that concerns you at all.]

It’s easy to think that anything goes in a vulgar series like Deadpool, which has distinguished itself within the Marvel universe by spraying the screen with gobs of gore and blush-worthy dialogue. Believe it or not, however, there were some bits that definitively crossed the blurry line that star Ryan Reynolds and…

There’s a profane, adolescent energy to the Deadpool franchise, and the forthcoming sequel’s bizarre marketing campaign reflects that juvenile unpredictability. Over the past few weeks, star Ryan Reynolds has danced with Celine Dion, “spoiled” his own movie, and dressed up like a unicorn on South Korean TV, and now…

Openly trolling the ambitions of other modern comic-book movies, the sequel to Deadpool, the surprise hit that cast Ryan Reynolds as the self-destructive and puerile Bugs Bunny figure of the present superhero blockbuster landscape, mostly outdoes its predecessor in terms of style and satirical intent: Now that he’s…

The Deadpool sequel looks like it’s going to have more of the wacky, self-referential superhero action that fans loved in the first movie, but the original plan for Deadpool 2 involved a different kind of superhero action: fatherhood. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, star Ryan Reynolds said that he and co-writers…

Given how many Deadpool miniseries there have been over the years, it’s surprising that it’s taken so long for the fourth-wall-breaking mercenary to star in a choose-your-own adventure comic. These stories require a lot of organization because the story structure is so complex, but writer Al Ewing has proven time and…

If the proliferation of shared cinematic universes has taught us anything, it’s that no superhero is an island. To beat the bad guy, you need some sidekicks. That’s even true for a lone wolf like Deadpool who, in the final trailer for his new film, introduced audiences to some members of his anti-Cable squad, X-Force.…

In the year since his Deadpool animated series was announced, Donald Glover has picked up a Grammy, wrapped Solo: A Star Wars Story, and debuted the second season of his Emmy-winning dramedy, Atlanta. But the actor-rapper-producer insists his other projects didn’t get in the way of his work on the cartoon—he even…

One of the more intriguing pop culture collaborations of the last year has officially run its course, sadly, as Variety reports that a Deadpool cartoon slated to air on FXX—with Atlanta mastermind Donald Glover at the helm—has fallen apart. It sounds like the project, which was set to be animated by Archer studio…

The box-office success of Deadpool despite its R rating has given Ryan Reynolds enough clout to secure a three-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. But, as Deadline reports, the actor-producer isn’t straying too far from that franchise for the first film in that arrangement. Reynolds is reuniting with Deadpool scribes…

It’s time to take a deep breath and relax, you bitch-ass shitbags, because the merc with a mouth may belong to Disney now, but he’s still going to say whatever the fuck he wants, and you’re going to love the shit out of it.

Marvel has been steadily releasing miniseries pitting Deadpool against various characters for the last few years—including two books where he kills the entire Marvel Universe—so it was only a matter of time until the Merc With A Mouth faced off against the grizzled future version of Wolverine. As the two most…

Joe Kelly’s Deadpool comic-book run is arguably the definitive version of the character and played a major role in influencing future Deadpool directions. A lesser-known side character at the time, Deadpool was given his own title in 1997, helmed by Kelly, who transformed him into the wisecracking, fourth-wall…