Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDeadpool & Wolverine: WWIII #3 serves as the finale of a three-issue limited series that reunited Joe Kelly — the writer whose late-1990s run is widely credited with cementing Deadpool as a marquee Marvel character — with the duo for the first time in decades, making the concluding chapter a narrative capstone to that creative homecoming. The issue delivers a canon expansion of Deadpool's mutant healing factor, establishing that Wade Wilson can regenerate from a single drop of blood absorbed into another person's body — a story beat dramatized when Deadpool literally regrows from Wolverine's back. Beyond the gross-out spectacle, the finale uses the 'born or made' thematic throughline introduced across all three issues to argue, through Logan's internal struggle against Delta's manipulations, that identity is defined by choice rather than by origin or biology — a rare moment of genuine character philosophy in an action-driven team-up format. Released the same week as the Marvel Studios Deadpool & Wolverine film, the issue functioned as the closing act of a coordinated publishing event designed to give readers a premium, creator-driven comic experience alongside the theatrical release.
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Editor Mark Basso approached Joe Kelly about the project, presenting only a title — WWIII — and inviting him to build a story around it; Kelly has said the title itself became a narrative surprise he did not want readers to take too literally. Kelly cited two primary creative draws: the opportunity to collaborate again with Adam Kubert, with whom he had worked during his early Marvel tenure on the X-Men titles in the late 1990s, and the chance to explore Wolverine as a point-of-view character for the first time. The series was deliberately timed so that its three monthly installments, beginning in May 2024, would conclude in July 2024 — coinciding with the release of the Deadpool & Wolverine feature film directed by Shawn Levy.
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- Written by Joe Kelly with art, inks, and cover by Adam Kubert; colored by Frank Martin; lettered by VC Joe Sabino; edited by Mark Basso.
- Released July 24, 2024 (cover-dated September 2024); the third and final issue of a three-issue limited series.
- The issue resolves the arc's central threat: villain Delta, introduced in issue #1 as a new character with the power to amplify a person's abilities, strength, and savagery to their ultimate limit, is defeated when Deadpool and Wolverine combine their regenerative powers against him.
- Contains a canon development for Deadpool's healing factor: Wade is shown to be capable of regenerating from blood alone after being absorbed into Wolverine's body, effectively 'growing' out of Logan's back — a story point noted by multiple reviewers as an 'important and canon revelation.'
- Deadpool deploys a fourth-wall break in the opening pages to retroactively explain the cryptic prologues of issues #1 and #2 as fragments of Delta's brainwashing — a structurally self-aware device consistent with Kelly's established approach to the character.
- Joe Kelly's formative solo Deadpool run (1997–1999) is the creative bedrock from which this miniseries draws; WWIII marks his most substantial return to the character since Spider-Man/Deadpool (2016–2017).
- Issue #3 carried a Movie Variant cover among its multiple variant editions, directly tying the release to the concurrent Marvel Studios theatrical release.
- The complete three-issue run was subsequently collected as a standalone trade paperback, Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII, collecting issues #1–3.
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Reprinted in Deadpool and Wolverine #22 (2024), Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII #[nn] (2024), Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII #[nn] (2024)
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