"Bugs Bunny as an assassin?" So Deadpool is the Ambush Bug rip-off I always suspected he was, eh?

Cei-U!
I knew it!!!

 Dare Devil has seldom been any where near as popular as Spider-Man or the X-Men, so why wasn't he shelved when he was at Fox? What about Ghost Rider?

It's a stone cold fact, despite the persistent rumors online Marvel has never shelved a character in order to try and get movie rights back. And with good reason; as in the end it would be futile. Just as there are rarely, if ever, any sales bumps for books after their respective films come out there has never been a film that failed due to lack of interest from comic book fans. We are but the smallest fraction of the general movie going population so no film is going to suffer even if every single one of decided not to go.

Sticking Deadpool in the Avengers is weird, I'll grant you, but it's no different than putting Batman on every cover for a month because the reason is simple: these characters sell books.

Except nowhere near as good.

I think the standards for Avengers membership have always been pretty lax, but if we're complaining about Deadpool... That I am down with.  

I think it is extremely telling that our popular superheroes have gone from being idealized adult figures to characters with the mentality of childhood, and that one of Marvel's most popular characters is now an escapist fantasy for people who want to ignore moral decisions.  

It's not just that Deadpool is a bad character -  Although I certainly wouldn't count him among Rob Leifeld's most inspired rip-offs creations -it's that he's really saying a lot about the mentality of comic fans in the 21st century as well.  None of it good.  

And I'd say the current version of Harley Quinn is just as bad, although I consider the  Ambush Bugisation of Harley even more of a tragedy because there was actually a strong character there in the beginning.  

You're assuming someone would date D-Man. Aside from the smell, because well he's been living in a sewer and wearing the clothes other super-heroes discarded after they were done with them without the benefit of laundering them, there is the fact most people would be embarrassed to be seen in public with him. As for resourcefulness, Hawkeye has a quiver of resourcefulness most heroes couldn't come close to devising. And Widow wouldn't be a very good secret agent if people could figure out her cover now would she. The only cover D-Man ever figured out was made of cardboard...At least Hawkeye is smart enough to change his clothes once in a while (even if his fashion choices for some of them might be suspect (purple toga skirt we're looking at you). Besides, who hasn't done dumb things to impress a pretty girl...oh yeah D-Man, because the pretty girls wouldn't talk to him (or the plain girls, or the ugly ones or any of them who had any olfactory ability or a modicum of a standard).

-M

D-Man is the kind of wrestler the Rock used to call the jobbroni. He's brought onstage (i.e. in the ring) to be the punching bag for the popular guys. I mean no one even knows his name they just call him D-Man for defeated man because that's his only purpose. The only play those guys get is the replay of them getting their face smashed in by the popular wrestlers people pay to come see. The only reason Cap hand selected him was to make the rest of the guys on his Captain America team feel better about themselves (and because the good wrestlers were tired of beating on D-Man so his stumblebum wrestler contract wasn't renewed and Cap felt sorry for him, because Cap is usually a good guy). Hey I may only work on the call center of the Captain America hotline, but I still got it better than D-Man, at least I can take a hot shower and own my own clothes...and Cap doesn't let villains like Mr. Hyde beat on me like he does D-Man while he mops up the other lesser villains then takes down the big gun because he's having too much fun beating D-Man to notice Cap coming.Because that's D-Man's only real super-power to take a beating. That's his wrestling prowess too. No skill, no appeal just a lot of stinky sweat and "dain bramage" from the juice (see below) and the beatings.

And by D-Man's super-powers you mean he used illegal steroids to juice (which explains why his head is so big), ok, but I am not a fan of the A-Frauds of the world either and they shouldn't be Avengers either.

-M

I wanted so much to like Kelly's run, but I couldn't get into it.  The art put me off to begin with, but the "breaking the 4th Wall" piece really drove me away.   

My problem is that Marvel doesn't know how to use him (other than shove him into every book whether he has a purpose there or not).  If he's a bad-ass mercenary, then he can't be having cutesy conversations with the readers about knowing he's a comic book character, and if he's going to be "Bugs Bunny as an assassin", then folks like Steve Rogers and Scott Summers shouldn't have to treat him as though he's a serious threat.  Playing up his insanity and letting him be random as all get out is one thing,  but once you break the 4th Wall in a "serious" comic book, you've gone somewhere that is really hard to come back from. 

Well, well, well. Look who's back and looking well groomed and hygienic.