When it comes to the topic of Gwen Stacy’s re-emergence, it’s imperative to ask the following question: “Why does she have to come back?”. Her death was iconic and radically changed the face of the Spider-Man mythos. In short, her death mattered.
Not only does Steve Orlando’s Midnighter comic star a gay man, it tells blunt, sex-positive stories about that character. The main cast of characters in the upcoming main Avengers comic All-New, All-Different Avengers has a small minority of white dudes.
While there is still a lot of work on the road to a utopia of complete social justice, there is a trend of progressivism in some of today’s superhero comics that is impossible to ignore.
Spider-Gwen #2 Written by Jason Latour Art by Robbi Rodriguez Colors by Rico Renzi Published by Marvel Comics Let’s be up front: Spider-Gwen #2 is good. Better than good. Right now, the creative team behind Marvel’s flashiest new Spider-character is building her world and showing it off to us. They’re setting up big things and …