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UNBELIEVABLE GWENPOOL Series Announced for April

Because YOU demanded it!

Looks like Marvel has another new 'hot' character to bestow upon us. In case you feel you're not getting enough Gwenpool, she's getting her own series. People are buying her appearances so you can't blame Marvel for giving the people what they want.

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2015’s overnight sensation is taking center stage next year and slicing and dicing her way into her very own ongoing series! That’s right world, get ready for THE UNBELIEVABLE GWENPOOL #1 – coming at you in April from Gwenpool Holiday Special creators Christopher Hastings and Gurihiru! Strap in True Believers, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

Gwen Poole used to be a comic book reader just like you…until one day she woke up INSIDE the Marvel Universe! Now the characters she read about are all real! But they can’t be really real, right? This must all be fake, or a dream or something right? You know what that means – NO CONSEQUENCES! First order of business, get a costume and start fighting crime. Why? Because that’s what everyone who has a solo series does!

“The series is a lot about her believing she’s in a fictional world with no consequences,” says series writer Christopher Hastings, speaking with Entertainment Weekly. “She’s seen everyone come back to life at some point, and it sort of seems like she’s living in a video game. And then the book is going to be the universe fighting back at that. Like, ‘you can’t really get away with everything’ is kind of the struggle there.”

No power. No responsibility. No rules. No limits. The Marvel Universe has a new player, and she’ll shoot and slice her way through friend and foe alike. Could she truly be Marvel’s least role-modely and least responsible character to date? She can if she tries! Be there this April as this marvelous mercenary makes her explosive entrance in THE UNBELIEVABLE GWENPOOL #1!

THE UNBELIEVABLE GWENPOOL #1

Written by CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS

Art & Cover by GURIHIRU

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100% not surprised that this is a thing. Marvel is more gimmicky than ever nowadays. Interesting enough concept, though, and I enjoyed the art in the Holiday special. Might check it out.

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You've gotta be kidding me...

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I can promise you it wasn't me who demanded it

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Eh... why? Replace her with Deadpool and you get the exact same thing.

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No. I did not demand this.

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Man I should have put some money on this because I knew they'd probably make a series for the character.

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The concept is sorta cool, but you could've just done it with deadpool or an original character instead of this gimmick.

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Well at least it's not Gwen Stacy

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Who demanded it though

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I can promise you it wasn't me who demanded it

As someone who is a Deadpool fan, I am in the same boat

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Interesting idea for a character. Wonder if she'll break the fourth wall like Deadpool, probably, as it 'd make sense if she thinks it's a dream or something.

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WHO?! WHO DEMANDED THIS?!

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@outside_85 said:

Eh... why? Replace her with Deadpool and you get the exact same thing.

Not exactly. Deadpool can see trough fourth wall.
This girl literally breaks trough fourth wall from other side. From outside. So techincally she is kinda Reverse Deadpool.

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@the_stegman: I DID!!!!! BECAUSE I LIKE HEARING LOUD NOISES AND WATCHING PEOPLE WASTE KEYBOARD IN FITS OF RAGE ABOUT THINGS THAT DON'T REALLY MATTTTTTEEEEEEERRRRR.

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Sounds like an interesting concept. Might give it a try.

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Eh... why? Replace her with Deadpool and you get the exact same thing.

Its early days, but this could end up being more about Marvel trying to get some of the old Harley Quinn market to be honest.

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Who demanded it exactly? They need to be smacked

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100% not surprised that this is a thing. Marvel is more gimmicky than ever nowadays. Interesting enough concept, though, and I enjoyed the art in the Holiday special. Might check it out.

Gives a slight diss at marvel, still goes for the gimmick.

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@vox bosh: I'M NOT IN A RAGE, I JUST HAVE A PROBLEM CONTROLLING THE LEVEL OF MY VOICE, AND I DON'T APPRECIATE YOU MAKING LIGHT OF IT!!!

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was this really necessary? was anyone actually asking for this??

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It's a somewhat interesting concept, i'm not gonna lie, but I honestly doubt that people demanded this.

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Can we stop 'demanding' things? Please? ._. I'm literally behind two weeks worth of comics because i can't buy them all because so many freaking series are coming out. Just gimme some air, Marvel. PLEASE. BECAUSE I DEMANDED IT PLEAASE.

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You dont have to question the necessary of her series. If you don't like it, dont buying it. I for one enjpyed her part of the christmas special and will check this out.

And Thank god she isn't another gwen stacy. Gwenpool is awesome, but one is enough.

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She is much more likable then Spider-Gwen. Gwenpool reminds me a lot of the pre new 52 Harley Quinn so I will pick up her series for a bit.

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Who is buying this crap? Seriously, who?

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What? Who demanded this? When? Why?

I'm a DC fan, so I have my own set of stuff to complain about, but I still have to say this seems like it came from out of left field.

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Why?

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At first I thought it was just Gwen Stacy but now that it's technically a new character then I'm willing to give it a try. Just because it's gimmicky doesn't mean it can't be good or fun. If you're interest give it a try, if it doesn't appeal to you then leave it. If no one really buys it, it'll go away on its own, so it's not really a big deal. Also Chris Hastings is a solid writer so it'll be fine most likely.

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I can promise you it wasn't me who demanded it

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"Because YOU demanded it!"

I'm not sure who keeps investing in Marvel's gimmicks, but please stop. It's getting old, really fast. The Death of Gwen Stacy was a vintage and defining story arc for the Spider-Man franchise, and her character needs to stop being plastered everywhere for a quick cash-grab. I'm cool with Ultimate Gwen Stacy but that's because she has an actual purpose, as opposed to these alternative versions.

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good continue to make this character popular..... I have 3 extra issues of her first appearance sitting on my comic table. hopefully she gets super hot likeSpiderGwen did.

To be quite honest me personally I don't see what all the fuss is about her, she's another gimmicky character based off one of marvel's current Headlining super stars. i'll give her first issue a try, I really don't think this will do anything for me though....

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All-New, All-Gimmick Marvel

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Unbelievable. The worst part about this is that the premise sounds really cool I would be all over this book if the main character wasn't Gwen Stacey crossed with Deadpool. Hell if they had just come up with a new Lady Deadpool with the same costume and backstory I would be all over this but its the fact that they are milking the random success of Spider-Gwen for all that its worth that really puts me off.

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id rather have a scarlet spider (kaine) series....if you know what i mean

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Unbelievable!

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I wonder who's next to get their own female counterpart. So far it's Thor, Wolverine, Hawkeye, Spiderman, Star Lord and Deadpool if i recall correctly. Maybe Dr Strange because he's about to become a whole lot more popular with the new movie coming out and if they can make Star Lord into an uninteresting female variation of his character in the height of his popularity then I'm sure they can do it to Strange.

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A gimmick combined with a story is LITERALLY EVERY COMIC EVER MADE no matter how good or how shitty it is. Retired Bruce Wayne donning the mantle again was a gimmick, Jean grey dying was a gimmick, Barbara Gordon getting paralyzed was a gimmick Spiderman making a deal with the devil was a gimmick. Gimmicky is just the blanket term long time entitled comic fans are using because publishers decided to branch out and not just focus on the hetero white male demographic anymore. Is it so wrong to make a spinoff of something popular? Cause that's how we got Deadpool, Thanos, Marvel Zombies, secret wars, the MCU, the Robins, the GL corps, Flash, Arrow, Shazaam, wally west. Is a female gwen deadpool and more gimmicky than a child version of the flash or a murdering, thomas wayne batman. Its the same thing that's gone on in comics since they were created but now they are appealing to more than one market.

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Finally one step closer to what I've dreamed about for decades. An entire universe inhabited by Gwens. A "Gweniverse".

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So can someone tell me when the iron-Gwen, captian amerigwen, ant-gwen series are coming out.

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So does this take place in 616?

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I DEMANDED THIS!!!

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@stellar421: As I have read her first appearance in Howard the duck, yes it is in the 616

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cool, the holiday special parts with her were quite entertaining. hopefully its the same artist.

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@werst9: Don't even try to make Marvel's gimmicky crap some kind of white males vs. everyone else" thing, that's about the laziest argument you can make at this point.

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@prophetvivec36 said:

Whoever demanded, it sure as hell wasn't anybody with a brain and half a cup of common sense. Marvel's gimmicky garbage is poison.

Best way to describe it.

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Well I like the idea of someone from "our reality" being in a comic book world, but I don't like the rest. I would've preferred a totally new character not tied to Gwen or Deadpool.

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