DEADPOOL EPIC COLLECTION FUNERAL FOR A FREAK TP

An action-packed era for the Merc With A Mouth!It's a cruel summer when Deadpool takes on the mob! Hired by a dirty cop to kill six Mafia dons, Deadpool soon falls for his contact: a beautiful tattoo artist. But all is not as it seems. Then Wade Wilson gets an unwelcome sidekick - the youthful Pool Boy - and his shapeshifting ex-girlfriend Copycat returns, insane with jealousy! And blood and bullets fly when Deadpool accepts a contract on the Punisher's life! But when the new Weapon X Program comes knocking, they won't take no for an answer! So it's a good thing Deadpool's okay with becoming a secret agent - even alongside a cutthroat band of villains and lunatics - because they've offered him the one thing he wants most in the world: a cure for his ravaged face! How far will Wade go to hold on to his good looks? And what happens when Weapon X starts crossing lines even he isn't comfortable crossing? The funeral of Deadpool, that's what! All that plus the final showdown with T-Ray!COLLECTING: Deadpool (1997) #46-64, material from X-Men Unlimited (1993) 28.Written by Jimmy Palmiotti, Buddy Scalera & Frank TieriPenciled by Paul Chadwick, Michael Lopez, Darick Robertson, Anthony Williams, Georges Jeanty, Karl Kerschl, Jim Calafiore & Liam Sharp Classically trained at New York's prestigious High School of Art and Design, Jimmy Palmiotti began his career as a comic-book inker, gaining a reputation as not only talented, but fast. Collaborating with fellow artist Joe Quesada, Palmiotti lent his skills to such projects as Batman: Sword of Azrael, The Ray and Ninjak. In 1995, Palmiotti and Quesada founded Event Comics, creating the memorable titles Ash and Painkiller Jane. This led to an offer from Marvel Comics to revamp several heroes under the Marvel Knights banner. With writer Kevin Smith and Quesada, Palmiotti's work on Daredevil became a monumental success. Palmiotti later began to take on comic-book writing chores with a lengthy run on Harley Quinn along with his creator-owned books.After co-creating Image Comics' Hyperkinetic with Howard M. Shum, Matteo Scalera moved to Marvel to pencil and ink issues of Deadpool Corps, Deadpool Team-Up and related titles before shifting to such team books as Secret Avengers and Wolverine & the X-Men. At Boom! Studios, he has provided art for Chris Roberson's Starborn and Michael Alan Nelson's Valen the Outcast, as well as covers for Mark Waid's Irredeemable and Incorruptible.Frank Tieri entered the early part of the new century as writer on diverse titles such as Wolverine, Iron Man and Weapon X. His Hercules limited series cast the Avenger as a reality-TV star reliving his twelve trials, continuing the lighthearted legacy of Olympus' favorite son. Tieri's Underworld and Civil War: War Crimes explored the effects of the heroes' registration fight on Marvel's criminal element. World War Hulk: Gamma Corps followed the next generation of gamma-irradiated superhumans as they sought to kill the Hulk. And Dark Reign: Lethal Legion charted the crash-and-burn exploits of an ad hoc team of bad guys as they vainly sought to topple Norman Osborn from power. Tieri, whose Marvel credits also includes New Excalibur, explored Weirdworld in the pages of Black Knight.Artist Darick Robertson illustrated all sixty issues of Transmetropolitan with writer Warren Ellis. In the Fury limited series for Marvel, Robertson and Garth Ennis presented a graphically realistic vision of what it means to be the leader of the world's biggest spy organization. He and Ennis next collaborated on the Marvel Knights Punisher series and later launched the controversial creator-owned series The Boys, now a smash-hit streaming series. In addition to his lengthy run on New Warriors, Robertson's other Marvel credits include Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Toxin.After his start on Action Force and Transformers for Marvel UK, Anthony Williams penciled Marvel's Squadron Supreme: New World Order one-shot, Hokum and Hex (a Clive Barker creation), and DC's Fate. In the pages of 2000 AD, he collaborated with Dan Abnett, Garth Ennis, Mark Millar and Grant Morrison, among other noted British writers.Georges Jeanty helped build the popularity of mutants Bishop and Gambit on their respective solo series in the 1990s, and went on to further acclaim with The American Way for DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. Hi other Marvel credits include Deadpool and Weapon X. Jeanty demonstrated his flair for media tie-in work as the artist for the comic-book continuation of the beloved TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a skill set he utilized to great effect on Marvel's adaptation of Star Wars: The Mandalorian.In addition to Deadpool, multitalented penciler, inker and writer Jim Calafiore has worked on many issues of Exiles during its lengthy run, and has an extensive list of credits for both Marvel and DC Comics.