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Bob Layton Just Discovered He Created a Character in Deadpool 2

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Bob Layton is a comic book artist best known for his work on Iron Man in the seventies and eighties, co-creating the X-Factor series, and launching the Valiant Universe, including co-creating X-O Manowar.

He has created so many characters in his long history in the medium, he would be forgiven for forgetting one or two.

Such as Firefist in Deadpool 2, played by Julian Dennison.

Bob Layton Just Discovered He Created a Character in Deadpool 2

Originally created by Layton and Jackson Guice for X-Factor #1…

Bob Layton Just Discovered He Created a Character in Deadpool 2

Firefist, Russell Collinsor Rusty is a mutant with heat-creation powers…

Bob Layton Just Discovered He Created a Character in Deadpool 2

who was abused by his uncle before being sent to join the Navy at the age of 16. He was killed off ten years later in the X-Men comic.

Bob Layton Just Discovered He Created a Character in Deadpool 2

 

Anyway, his co-creator just found out…

You did, Bob, you did…

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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