Deadpool / Wolverine #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIssue #5 of the 2025 Deadpool/Wolverine ongoing delivers the central narrative gut-punch of the entire series: what readers believed to be a Stryfe-driven apocalypse plot is revealed at the issue's close to be Apocalypse himself, operating from within Stryfe's body — a twist that recontextualizes every scene of villainy across the preceding four chapters. By positioning two of Marvel's most durable '90s X-villains in this nested-identity reveal, Benjamin Percy builds a deliberate conceptual bridge to classic X-Men event storytelling, particularly the 1992 crossover 'X-Cutioner's Song' and the mythology surrounding Apocalypse's history of consuming host bodies. The issue also deepens the nanite-based mind-control framework that enslaves both Wolverine and Deadpool as Horsemen, making it the pivot point of a ten-issue story designed to serve the post-Krakoa 'From the Ashes' editorial era and bring new readers into the X-line's continuity through an accessible but mythology-rich action thriller.
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The Deadpool/Wolverine series launched in January 2025 as part of Marvel's X-Men: From the Ashes publishing initiative, which rebuilt the X-line after the conclusion of the Krakoa era. Writer Benjamin Percy — who had already steered Wolverine and X-Force through the Krakoan period — was paired with artist Joshua Cassara, his former collaborator on X-Force, making this a reunion of a well-established creative team. Percy publicly teased the series as a 'cousin' to a '90s X-Men storyline, with issue #1 strongly implying a spiritual kinship with 'X-Cutioner's Song,' and the Apocalypse connection confirmed at issue #5's conclusion revealed that the series also ties into the concurrent Age of Revelation crossover event.
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- Published May 28, 2025 (cover-dated July 2025); FOC date was April 28, 2025.
- Story titled 'Soldiers of Misfortune'; written by Benjamin Percy, pencilled and inked by Joshua Cassara, colored by Guru-eFX, lettered by VC Joe Sabino, edited by Mark Basso.
- The issue's closing reveal discloses that Apocalypse has been inhabiting Stryfe's body — reframing the villain's identity and motivation for the entire series to that point.
- Wolverine is formally brought under nanite-based mind control in this issue, completing the process that made Deadpool his X-Cutioner earlier in the run; Wolverine addresses the villain as 'Apocalypse' upon recognizing him.
- The series is set within the X-Men: From the Ashes initiative, Marvel's post-Krakoa editorial relaunch, and issue #5 also ties into the concurrent Age of Revelation crossover event.
- Percy described the overall series as a 'cousin' to the 1992 X-Men crossover 'X-Cutioner's Song,' with the Apocalypse reveal adding a further thematic link to 'Age of Apocalypse' mythology.
- The complete 10-issue series was later collected in trade paperback as Deadpool/Wolverine: A Time of Stryfe (2026).
- The series ran from January 2025 through October 2025, totalling 10 issues, and is not a continuation of or tie-in to the 2024 Deadpool & Wolverine film.
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Reprinted in Deadpool / Wolverine: A Time of Stryfe #[nn] (2025)
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