Um, Deadpool is mentally ill too. The fact that his illness manifests with a bunch of wacky catchphrases and jokes about the fourth wall doesn’t change that. In the hands of a skilled writer (check out Rick Remender’s X-Force run, for instance) Deadpool is both funny AND tragic, just like Harley has always been.

It’s called a character arc, look it up some time.

What a horribly written tweet.

I think the author thought, “Hey, I covered this guy for years and now he’s in the news! I’m going to go look at all my old reporting and talk to my sources who knew him and write something.” And then when he talked to Holtzclaw’s friends and family — and they were pretty sure he didn’t do it — he thought about Serial…