Deadpool / Wolverine #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDeadpool/Wolverine #3 (titled 'Recruits,' released March 19, 2025) is the narrative pivot of the series' first arc, delivering the unambiguous reveal that Stryfe — not some faceless psychic entity — is the force puppeting Deadpool's mind and body. By confirming this in the same issue that stages the long-anticipated Logan-vs.-Wade brawl, Percy collapses the mystery and the action beat into a single, structurally efficient chapter, a formal choice that reviewers noted as unusually disciplined for an action-comedy title. The issue also introduces Stryfe's 'Legacy 2.0' zombie-army gambit, consciously echoing the '90s Legacy Virus mythology and signaling that the series intends to do serious continuity work beneath its kinetic surface. Within the broader 'From the Ashes' X-Men era, it marks one of the first sustained attempts to rehabilitate Stryfe as a long-form antagonist rather than a nostalgia cameo.
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The Deadpool/Wolverine ongoing was developed by writer Benjamin Percy and artist Joshua Cassara — veteran collaborators from Marvel's Krakoan-era X-Force and X Lives and X Deaths of Wolverine — with Mark Basso serving as editor. Percy has stated that the series was in development months before the 2024 Deadpool & Wolverine film's release, meaning its editorial genesis predates the film's cultural wave rather than being a reactive cash-in, though the comic's January 2025 launch was timed to capitalize on heightened audience interest in the pairing. The creative team's stated ambition was an 'evergreen,' largely self-contained action thriller with an '80s and '90s genre sensibility that could welcome new readers while rewarding X-Men continuity veterans, with Stryfe chosen as the opening arc's antagonist specifically to revisit threads from 'X-Cutioner's Song.'
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- Published March 19, 2025 (cover date: May 2025); internal story title is 'Recruits' — the third chapter of the series' inaugural arc.
- Written by Benjamin Percy; pencils, inks, and cover by Joshua Cassara; colored by Guru-eFX; lettered by VC's Joe Sabino; edited by Mark Basso.
- Variant cover for this issue illustrated by Rafael De Latorre.
- The issue delivers the confirmed in-story reveal that Stryfe is the psychic force controlling Deadpool — the central mystery seeded since issue #1.
- Stryfe's plan is fully articulated here: he intends to use 'Legacy 2.0' — a reworked mutant bioweapon — to stage a controlled apocalypse, preventing what he believes will be a worse, uncontrolled extinction event.
- The issue ends with Stryfe weaponizing Legacy 2.0 to reanimate cemetery corpses, introducing an undead-army element to the arc and broadening the threat's scale.
- A key piece of retroactive continuity is disclosed: Stryfe previously had a psychic control link to Wolverine as well, but that link is no longer viable due to Logan's new body — grounding the plot in recent Wolverine continuity.
- The series, of which this issue is part, is positioned as a ten-issue limited run set within Marvel's post-Krakoa 'From the Ashes' era and consciously draws on the 1990s 'X-Cutioner's Song' storyline as a narrative ancestor.
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Reprinted in Deadpool / Wolverine: A Time of Stryfe #[nn] (2025)
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