Deadpool Team Tackles the War on Drugs in Image Comics Satire
The talents behind Deadpool's acclaimed 2013 run are reuniting to explore America’s past with marijuana in the most hilarious way possible. The gang has come back together to write the satirical one-shot, The Secret History of the War on Weed, for Image Comics. The standalone tale promises to deliver the excitement and humor the team brought to their time writing Marvel’s Merc with a Mouth.
In 2013, comedian Brian Posehn teamed up with writer Gerry Duggan to pen Deadpool. The team was eventually joined by Scott Koblish, who provided art for several notable issues, including its 27th, which won the Guinness World Record for “Most Comic Book Characters on a Single Cover.” The series is looked back fondly on by fans of Wade Wilson, who praise the comic’s balance of humor and pathos. While the team’s run on Deadpool came to an end in 2015 after a 45-issue run, Posehn, Duggan and Koblish are getting a new chance to collaborate on a subject very suited to their particular style of humor.
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As announced by Image Comics, the upcoming one-shot The Secret History of the War on Weed will be a comic built on “Eighties references, ultra violence and high jokes per page rate”. The tale is a satirical look at America’s war on drugs, where the First Lady of the United States sends in hyper-macho soldier Scotch McTiernan to subdue marijuana farmers in Northern California. Despite the soldier’s tenacity, his mission may be in jeopardy after Scotch gets high for the first time. Duggan hypes up the story as their “funniest and most screwed up comic yet”.
The one-shot will also donate a portion of proceeds to “organizations dedicated to helping casualties of America’s
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