Deadpool was the guy who the comic-book writers at Marvel created back in 1991, by setting aside the traditional superhero archetypes and letting their creativity flow, unconstrained by social mores. He was foulmouthed, awkward, amoral, diseased, and yet, somehow, a super-agile self-healing assassin. Last year, the writer Maddy Myers pointed out that Deadpool represents an “omnisexual, disabled, ‘ugly’ hero”—a subversive figure if there ever was one. Perhaps most interesting of all was his power to break the fourth wall (to be self-aware that he was inside a comic and speak directly to the reader). One Marvel writer spoke of doing “anything we wanted” because they expected the series would be canceled anyway…