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FOOL; All-New All-Different Fantastic Four To Return To Marvel As Deadpool Comics Are Cancelled

Bleeding Cool was the place that broke the story that Marvel were to cancel their Fantastic Four comics, after the personal intervention of CEO Isaac Perlmutter over a fractious relationship between Marvel Studios and Fox Studios.

However, after Marvel Studios was removed from the purview of Perlmutter, and the division between Perlmutter and film chief Kevin Feige worsened, things have changed. Especially since Fox utterly flopped with their Fantastic Four movie, abandoning the sequel and replacing it with Deadpool 2.

So. Not only will The Fantastic Four return to comics as All-New All-Different Fantastic Four but, Marvel's Deadpool comic books will be cancelled. Fox's success with the character has been an anathema to Perlmutter, so the edict has come down.

Currently that includes Deadpool, Deadpool: Mercs For Money and the original Deadpool graphic novel by Rob Liefeld, Chris Sims and Chad Bowers. It was originally listed on Amazon for this year, but it now can no longer be searched for on Amazon. By URL farming, you can find the original listing but it has now been rescheduled for 2020 and no one is allowed to pre-order it until Perlmutter changes his mind.

Gwenpool will continue publication as Perlmutter doesn't know what a Gwenpool is.

But as with the Fantastic Four, Deadpool can appear in other comics, just not his own. So the plan, to get around Perlmutter's demands, is for Deadpool to return, as part of the All-New All-Different Fantastic Four. The comic will have five leads, Mr Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Thing, the Human Torch and Deadpool, and will still be called The Fantastic Four. No mention of the disconnected name will be made. That's intended to be one of the jokes.

As well as the comics, just as with Fantastic Four before it, all Deadpool merchandise, aside from the likenesses of the movie, will be withdrawn, clothing, posters, toylines, trading cards, and licensed use in games, and cartoons. The only way Deadpool can be used is in his new Fantastic Four costume, as Fantatsic Four licensing returns to the marketplace.

As with the previous Fantastic Four cancellation, the Deadpool comic cancellation is intended to be maintained as long as the Deadpool brand continues to have a competing market position with Marvel's other properties. For the Fantastic Four, that lasted for around a year. For Deadpool, it is expected that his comics will remain cancelled and he will be part of the Fantastic Four for a while longer than that.

Because, yes, it is being reinvented as a comedy R-Rated title, full of broken walls, jokes about stretching certain organs, rocky organs, flaming organs and invisible organs. And Deadpool playing an organ too probably, I don't know, I'm not making this kind of thing up. There is already one "joke" poster created with Deadpool in from of Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny titled "The F–ktastic Four".

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