Skip to main content
GamesRadar+ GamesRadar+
US EditionUS CA EditionCanada UK EditionUK AU EditionAustralia
Sign in
  • View Profile
  • Sign out
  • Games
    • Game Insights
      • Games News
      • Games Features
      • Games Reviews
      • Games Guides
      • Big in 2026
      • The Big Preview
      • On The Radar
      • Indie Spotlight
      • Future Games Show
      • Golden Joystick Awards
    • Genres
      • Action Games
      • RPGs
      • Action RPGs
      • Adventure Games
      • Third Person Shooters
      • FPS Games
    • Platforms
      • PS5
      • Xbox Series X
      • PC
      • Nintendo Switch
      • Nintendo Switch 2
      • Tabletop Gaming
    • Franchises
      • Grand Theft Auto
      • Pokemon
      • Assassin's Creed
      • Monster Hunter
      • Fortnite
      • Cyberpunk
      • Red Dead
      • The Elder Scrolls
      • The Sims
  • Entertainment
    • TV Shows
      • TV News
      • TV Reviews
      • Anime Shows
      • Sci-Fi Shows
      • Superhero Shows
      • Animated Shows
      • Marvel TV Shows
      • Star Wars TV Shows
      • DC TV Shows
    • Movies
      • Movie News
      • Movie Reviews
      • Big Screen Spotlight
      • Superhero Movies
      • Action Movies
      • Anime Movies
      • Sci-Fi Movies
      • Horror Movies
      • Marvel Movies
      • DC Movies
    • Streaming
      • Apple TV Plus
      • Disney Plus
      • Netflix
      • HBO
      • Amazon Prime Video
      • Hulu
    • Comics
      • Marvel Comics
      • DC Comics
    • Toys & Collectibles
    • Lego
    • Dungeons and Dragons
    • Merch
  • Hardware
    • Insights
      • Hardware News
      • Hardware Reviews
      • Hardware Features
    • Computing
      • Desktop PCs
      • Laptops
      • Handhelds
    • Peripherals
      • Headsets & Headphones
      • TVs & Monitors
      • Gaming Mice
      • Gaming Keyboards
      • Gaming Chairs
      • Speakers & Audio
    • Accessories & Tech
      • Gaming Controllers
      • Tech
      • SSDs & Hard Drives
      • VR
      • Accessories
      • Retro
  • Deals
    • Game Deals
    • Tech Deals
    • TV Deals
    • Buying Guides
  • Video
  • Newsletters
    • Quizzes
    • About Us
    • How to pitch to us
    • How we score
    • Newsarama
    • Retro Gamer
    • Total Film
  • home
  • Games
    • View Games
      • Games News
      • Games Features
      • Games Reviews
      • Games Guides
      • Big in 2026
      • The Big Preview
      • On The Radar
      • Indie Spotlight
      • Future Games Show
      • Golden Joystick Awards
      • Action Games
      • RPGs
      • Action RPGs
      • Adventure Games
      • Third Person Shooters
      • FPS Games
    • Platforms
      • View Platforms
      • PS5
      • Xbox Series X
      • PC
      • Nintendo Switch
      • Nintendo Switch 2
      • Tabletop Gaming
      • Grand Theft Auto
      • Pokemon
      • Assassin's Creed
      • Monster Hunter
      • Fortnite
      • Cyberpunk
      • Red Dead
      • The Elder Scrolls
      • The Sims
  • Entertainment
    • View Entertainment
    • TV Shows
      • View TV Shows
      • TV News
      • TV Reviews
      • Anime Shows
      • Sci-Fi Shows
      • Superhero Shows
      • Animated Shows
      • Marvel TV Shows
      • Star Wars TV Shows
      • DC TV Shows
    • Movies
      • View Movies
      • Movie News
      • Movie Reviews
      • Big Screen Spotlight
      • Superhero Movies
      • Action Movies
      • Anime Movies
      • Sci-Fi Movies
      • Horror Movies
      • Marvel Movies
      • DC Movies
    • Streaming
      • View Streaming
      • Apple TV Plus
      • Disney Plus
      • Netflix
      • HBO
      • Amazon Prime Video
      • Hulu
    • Comics
      • View Comics
      • Marvel Comics
      • DC Comics
    • Toys & Collectibles
    • Lego
    • Dungeons and Dragons
    • Merch
  • Hardware
    • View Hardware
      • Hardware News
      • Hardware Reviews
      • Hardware Features
      • Desktop PCs
      • Laptops
      • Handhelds
    • Peripherals
      • View Peripherals
      • Headsets & Headphones
      • TVs & Monitors
      • Gaming Mice
      • Gaming Keyboards
      • Gaming Chairs
      • Speakers & Audio
      • Gaming Controllers
      • Tech
      • SSDs & Hard Drives
      • VR
      • Accessories
      • Retro
  • Deals
    • View Deals
    • Game Deals
    • Tech Deals
    • TV Deals
    • Buying Guides
  • Video
  • Newsletters
    • Quizzes
    • About Us
    • How to pitch to us
    • How we score
    • Newsarama
    • Retro Gamer
    • Total Film
Trending
  • Pokemon Winds and Waves
  • New Games for 2026
  • GamesRadar+ Replay
  • Mario Day deals
Don't miss these
Spider-Man, Hulk, and Punisher posing in the jungle alongside a carved stone head
Marvel Comics Writer Jonathan Hickman is bringing Spider-Man 4 stars Spidey, Hulk, and Punisher together just in time for the movie
Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
Marvel TV Shows New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 TV spot is packed full of new footage, including another look at villain Bullseye
Superman in a battle-damaged costume brandishing both Mjolnir and Captain America's shield
Comics The best Marvel/DC crossover returns to pit the Avengers against the Justice League in the biggest superhero fight ever
Dario Agger charging at Thor/Sigurd Jarlson
Marvel Comics Thor has "nowhere to go but down" as Dario Agger the Minotaur returns to kill him in The Mortal Thor #11
Charlie Cox suits up in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
Marvel TV Shows Daredevil: Born Again season 2 release date, cast, trailer, and everything else we know about the Marvel series
Spider-Man: Brand New Day suit
Marvel Movies Spider-Man: Brand New Day official synopsis confirms a 4-year time jump and Peter Parker's largest mystery yet
Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Resurrections
Action Movies Matrix 5 gets a brand new update from writer and director Drew Goddard
Marvel's Wolverine
Action Games Marvel's Wolverine PS5: Everything we know so far
Chris Evans as Cap in the first Avengers: Doomsday trailer
Marvel Movies Avengers: Doomsday release date, cast, plot, trailer, and more news
An eye showing the reflection of two silhouettes looking down at it.
Thriller Movies A comic book series that’s been compared to Seven and Zodiac is getting adapted for the big screen
Daredevil: Born Again
Marvel TV Shows Daredevil: Born Again showrunner has "mixed feelings" about season 2's timely political focus
Spider-Man swinging through New York City
Marvel Comics Marvel brings back the most prolific Spider-Man comic writer of all time to revive Brand New Day before Spider-Man 4
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars Movies 10 years after Rogue One was released, the Star Wars movie is getting a series of new prequel comics
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer grabs
Streaming Services 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (January 16-18)
GamesRadar+ Best of 2025 Best Comics of 2025 featured image
Comics The 25 Best Comics of 2025
  1. Comics
  2. Marvel Comics

Wade Wilson: Deadpool #1 pays homage to an iconic Alfred Hitchcock movie moment

News
By George Marston published 9 January 2026

Cary Grant, eat your heart out

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Deadpool running from a small plane just like Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) in North By Northwest
Wade Wilson: Deadpool #1 pays homage to an iconic Alfred Hitchcock movie moment (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Flipboard
  • Email
Share this article
1
Join the conversation
Follow us
Add us as a preferred source on Google
Get the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more


By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

You are now subscribed

Your newsletter sign-up was successful


Want to add more newsletters?

GamesRadar+

Every Friday

GamesRadar+

Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.

GTA 6 O'clock

Every Thursday

GTA 6 O'clock

Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.

Knowledge

Every Friday

Knowledge

From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.

The Setup

Every Thursday

The Setup

Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.

Switch 2 Spotlight

Every Wednesday

Switch 2 Spotlight

Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.

The Watchlist

Every Saturday

The Watchlist

Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.

SFX

Once a month

SFX

Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!


An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Subscribe to our newsletter

The Merc With a Mouth is getting a new ongoing comic series titled, appropriately, Wade Wilson: Deadpool. Written by Benjamin Percy with art by rising Marvel star Geoff Shaw, the new story catches up with Deadpool following some horrible misdeed for which Wade is seeking not absolution, but punishment.

We've got a new preview of interior pages from Wade Wilson: Deadpool #1, showing Deadpool taking on a warehouse full of villainous scientists who chase him down in a small crop duster airplane, dosing him with poison.

Here's the full gallery of pages:

You may like
  • Deadpool and Wolverine Ryan Reynolds is reportedly focused on developing Deadpool 4
  • Deadpool in Marvel Rivals Deadpool finally revealed for Marvel Rivals: the first hero who can play all 3 roles, and also block ults with his ass
  • Shawn Levy Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy compares his Star Wars movie to Stranger Things
Image 1 of 4
Deadpool breaking into an enemy hideout
(Image credit: Marvel Comics)
Deadpool running from a small plane as it dusts him with poison
(Image credit: Marvel Comics)
Deadpool reeling from being poisoned as a plane circles around to attack him
(Image credit: Marvel Comics)
Deadpool shooting down a small plane that is hurtling toward him as it crashes
(Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Deadpool's race against the crop duster is reminiscent of one of the most iconic scenes famed horror/suspense director Alfred Hitchcock ever filmed. In the movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant's Roger Thornhill flees from a small airplane that pursues him across a field - the comic panel (seen above) even uses a very similar angle to the scene. The moment has been referenced countless times.

"DANGEROUS. UNHINGED. DEADLY. Deadpool is a man on the brink, and that means the jobs are deadlier, the stakes are higher, and the humor is darker than ever before," reads Marvel's official description for Wade Wilson: Deadpool #1. "But Wade Wilson isn't laughing. A dark memory haunts Deadpool, as a mysterious client leads him down a troubling path. This way lies redemption? No, something far worse. Wade can never be forgiven for what he's done... the new ongoing series begins!"

What has Wade done? We won't find out until Wade Wilson: Deadpool #1 goes on sale on February 11.

Ready for more of Wade Wilson's adventures? Dig into our picks for the best Deadpool stories of all time.

Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more

By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.
George Marston
George Marston
Social Links Navigation
Entertainment Writer

I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011, and now I'm the Entertainment Writer at GamesRadar+. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)

You must confirm your public display name before commenting

Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.

Read more
Deadpool and Wolverine
Ryan Reynolds is reportedly focused on developing Deadpool 4
 
 
Deadpool in Marvel Rivals
Deadpool finally revealed for Marvel Rivals: the first hero who can play all 3 roles, and also block ults with his ass
 
 
Shawn Levy
Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy compares his Star Wars movie to Stranger Things
 
 
Spider-Man swinging through New York City
Marvel brings back the most prolific Spider-Man comic writer of all time to revive Brand New Day before Spider-Man 4
 
 
Spider-Man, Hulk, and Punisher posing in the jungle alongside a carved stone head
Writer Jonathan Hickman is bringing Spider-Man 4 stars Spidey, Hulk, and Punisher together just in time for the movie
 
 
Zazie Beetz in They Will Kill You, covered in blood and wielding a flaming axe
Deadpool star's new horror action movie trailer looks like a cross between Die Hard and Rosemary's Baby
 
 
Latest in Marvel Comics
Spider-Man, Hulk, and Punisher posing in the jungle alongside a carved stone head
Writer Jonathan Hickman is bringing Spider-Man 4 stars Spidey, Hulk, and Punisher together just in time for the movie
 
 
Superman in a battle-damaged costume brandishing both Mjolnir and Captain America's shield
The best Marvel/DC crossover returns to pit the Avengers against the Justice League in the biggest superhero fight ever
 
 
Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Colossus leaping into action in the intro sequence of X-Men: The Arcade Game
After 13 years away, all-time- classic X-Men: The Arcade Game returns to headline a new collection of retro Marvel games
 
 
Dario Agger charging at Thor/Sigurd Jarlson
Thor has "nowhere to go but down" as Dario Agger the Minotaur returns to kill him in The Mortal Thor #11
 
 
Spider-Man swinging through New York City
Marvel brings back the most prolific Spider-Man comic writer of all time to revive Brand New Day before Spider-Man 4
 
 
Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson walking together with an image of Spider-Man fighting Venom in the background
Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson come together for a "heart-to-heart" in Venom #258
 
 
Latest in News
One Piece
One Piece season 2 is a live-action adaptation to treasure as it debuts to perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
 
 
Fallout 1 power armor helmet
D&D's most annoying rule helped Fallout co-creator get big break at legendary RPG studio
 
 
A screenshot of Yoko Taro in the "Message from NieR: Automata director Yoko Taro" Square Enix video announcing Nier: Automata's Steam release.
Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro sees it "as a form of respect" when devs "say outright that they copied" his action RPG
 
 
Marathon destroyer runner shell using shield to block explosive
Overwatch lead says using Steam player counts to dunk on Marathon is "big unemployed, maidenless behavior"
 
 
Death Stranding Norman Reedus and baby
RPG legend advises new devs to be like Hideo Kojima and create their own style – or just "have a rich daddy"
 
 
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
After the first two movies were written by Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy's 3 reportedly has new screenwriters
 
 
LATEST ARTICLES
  1. One Piece
    1
    One Piece season 2 is a live-action adaptation to treasure as it debuts to perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
  2. 2
    Overwatch lead says using Steam player counts to dunk on multi-platform releases like Marathon is "big unemployed, maidenless behavior"
  3. 3
    Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro sees it "as a form of respect" when devs "say outright that they copied" his action RPG, but he's not sure "how Square Enix would feel about that"
  4. 4
    D&D's most annoying rule helped Fallout co-creator Tim Cain get his big break at legendary RPG studio Interplay after he flexed on the job interview
  5. 5
    Resident Evil Requiem director acknowledges the Leon thirst and marriage debate all in one as he jokingly lets slip a mock-up of the hot unc starring in The Bachelor: "Whoops..."

GamesRadar+ is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.

Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google
  • Terms and conditions
  • Contact Future's experts
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies policy
  • Accessibility statement
  • Careers
  • About us
  • Advertise with us
  • Review guidelines
  • Write for us
  • Accessibility Statement

© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.

Please login or signup to comment

Please wait...