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He did, moving up Deadpool’s second appearance by 5 issues.Ī fan asked what led Rob Liefeld to create Deadpool, and Liefeld pointed him to his Robservations podcast. But according to Liefeld, Bob Harras called him right after he sent off the pages of X-Force #2, asking him to redraw the issue and include Deadpool. He pointed to an interview in Marvel Age in advance of X-Force #1’s publication, where he said that Deadpool would be back in X-Force #7.

He rejected the notion that Deadpool only gained popularity after his tenure on the character was over. Liefeld claimed that Deadpool was in the early issues of X-Force because the fans clamored for it after New Mutants #98. “They let me introduce Cable, and the book starts soaring,” said Liefeld. I got this guy Cable.” Bob Harras wasn’t crazy about the name Cable, but Rob wouldn’t give Marvel the character if they changed his name. “Bob Harras tried to lure me in with the crack cocaine of royalties,” but Rob kept declining the offer until Harras offered him New Mutants instead. Rob described his predecessor as “Walt Simonson, a god of comics books.” Harras asked, “Would you like to follow him?” Liefeld replied, “No.” He didn’t want to follow a legend. He didn’t believe it was actually him until Harras told him to call him back, the receptionist will answer “Marvel Comics.” He did, the receptionist did, and Harras offered him X-Factor because Walt Simonson was leaving the book. When he got the phone call from Bob Harras after he worked on Hawk and Dove at DC, Liefeld thought he was getting pranked. But Gruenwald, after looking through his pages, rose from his seat, extended his hand, and said “Welcome to Marvel Comics!” Dick Giordano was the first person at the convention willing to give his pages a look, and said he’d take them back to DC with him, but didn’t promise anything. At WonderCon 1987, Rob was getting rejected left and right by publisher after publisher, none of whom would even look at his page samples. He broke into the industry thanks to Mark Gruenwald. “Marvel just kept saying “Sure, why not? Sure, why not?” Rob explained. “If Cable didn’t work, then none of it worked.” He credited his success to Marvel going along with his ideas. Liefeld was quick to say that his decades of success can all be traced back to Cable’s success right out of the gate after the publication of New Mutants #87. “My life is an inspiration because I should never have achieved the wife that I have, the children that I have, the career that I have or the life that I have.” After fiddling with the record button on his iPhone, he went into a one-man show retrospective on his career in comics. Rob Liefeld hit the stage of his Deadpool and X-Force 30th Anniversary panel with the fire and energy you’d expect from someone 30 years his junior.