Deadpool / Wolverine #7

History

The Deadpool/Wolverine ongoing series launched in January 2025 as part of Marvel's 'X-Men: From the Ashes' initiative, riding the cultural momentum of the blockbuster 2024 film. Writer Benjamin Percy — already deep into a multi-year Wolverine tenure that included X-Force and the Hellverine concept — was the editorial selection to reunite the pair in print, with artist Joshua Cassara, his frequent collaborator on X-Force and X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine, handling primary art duties. Percy has stated in interviews that the arc was conceived as a deliberate callback to '90s X-Men storytelling, specifically the 'X-Cutioner's Song' crossover, building on its Stryfe/Legacy Virus foundation while layering in a new, thematically resonant version of Apocalypse possessing Stryfe's body. By issue #7, interior art duties had shifted to Robert Gill — a fill-in arrangement consistent with the book's production pattern from issue #6 onward — while Joshua Cassara retained the cover throughout the run.

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• First appearance of the all-new mutant character named Legacy, introduced as the central new foe of issue #7 and a named character in the series' collected edition subtitle.
• Written by Benjamin Percy; interior art by Robert Gill (fill-in from #6 onward); cover art by Joshua Cassara; colors by Guru-eFX; letters by VC's Joe Sabino; edited by Mark Basso.
• Published July 16, 2025; 23 pages of story content; rated Parental Advisory (T+); UPC 75960621054100711.
• Stryfe regains his helmet in this issue — a plot-critical object that Apocalypse (possessing Stryfe's body) had sent Wolverine to retrieve in prior issues, and whose power shifts the balance against the heroes.
• The series belongs to Marvel's 'X-Men: From the Ashes' initiative, the line-wide editorial framework replacing the Krakoa era after the mutant nation's fall.
• Percy has described the arc as a deliberate spiritual sequel to the 1993 'X-Cutioner's Song' crossover, with the Legacy Virus (here reimagined as 'Legacy 2.0,' a mind-control variant created by Stryfe/Apocalypse), Stryfe, and Apocalypse all central to both stories.
• Two variant covers were offered alongside the main Cassara cover: a Corin Howell variant and a Walt Simonson variant.
• The complete 10-issue series (#1–10) was collected in the trade paperback Deadpool/Wolverine: A Time of Stryfe (Penguin Random House / Marvel, 2026), which includes issue #7's Legacy debut.

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