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Deadpool and philosophy : my common sense is tingling / edited by Nicolas Michaud and Jacob Thomas May.

Michaud, Nicolas, (editor.). May, Jacob Thomas, (editor.).

Summary:

If you know that someone is writing the script of your life, can you really be a hero? Deadpool is the super-anti-hero who knows he's in a comic book. His unique situation and blood-stained history give rise to many philosophical puzzles. Are his actions predetermined by the writers, or does he trick the writers into scripting his choices? And what happens when Deadpool breaks into the real world to kill the writers? Deadpool challenges us to think outside the box, and this collection of essays examines the profound implications of this most contradictory and perplexing comic book character.

Record details

ISBN: 9780812699494
ISBN: 0812699491
Physical Description: x, 334 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : Open Court, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

It's about F*$ & ing time -- Breaking sixteen walls / Rhiannon Grant -- Deadpool the Dark Angel / Christopher Ketcham -- The only chapter in this book you need to read! / John V. Karavitis -- How much Deadpool is too much Deadpool? / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and Caleb Turner -- The anti-hero's journey / Andy Vink -- The accidental hero / Darian Shump -- Why Deadpool isn't a hero (yet?) / Matthew Brake -- How shitty can a hero be? / Corey Horn -- Is headless Deadpool still Deadpool? / Ben Fulman -- Always a pallbearer, never the corpse / Heidi Samuelson -- Immortality is misery / John Altmann -- Only Deadpool is sane / Chad William Timm -- Weapon X machina / Cole Bowman -- I'm an X-Man! / Daniel Malloy -- Good citizen Deadpool? / Jorge Humberto Sanchez Perez -- The beautiful face behind the mask / Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman -- Wade Wilson fights like a girl / Michael R. Berry and Christopher Natale -- Thus slaughtered Deadpool / Nicol Smith -- Deadpool can't know fear / Louis Melançon -- Deadpool's genocide of the Marvel Universe / William R. Livingston -- A naughty little puppet, but still a puppet / Shawn McKinney -- How to solve the contradictions in Deadpool Killustrated / Jamie Cawthra -- A chimichanga for the mercenary soul / Gabriel Cruz -- Won't the real Wade Wilson please stand up? / Ben Abelson -- Deadpool kills God / Nicolas Michaud -- Why we love to watch Deadpool ... play with himself / Jacob Thomas May -- The mystic with the mouth / John Thompson -- Zen and the art of Deadpool / Gerald Browning.