User blog comment:Johnnybravo44/Deadpool... more popular than you might think!/@comment-61022-20110317001922

I have to say that Deadpool is a great character. I would attribute his current popularity kind of being like the "Wolverine boom" that happened in the late 80's early 90's when Wolverine went from being an X-Men mainstay, to being in seven or eight titles in any given year (That's not including the one-shots and limited series)

The difference with Deadpool is that he's only as funny as whoever is writing him and that in and of itself has been more or less consistent with the people who have been writing him since his first on-going series.

I think Deadpool will always be funny so long as they don't try to take him "back to basics" when Rob Liefeld first created him (Anyone ever read that story? God awful).