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MARVEL INTRODUCG FIRST GAY SPIR-MAN
Hollywood has long looked to The New Yorker for memorable stori and characters: the gay wboys “Brokeback Mounta, ” the eccentric orchid thief “Adaptatn, ” the harried wrers and edors “The French Dispatch.
Gayner... But the film don’t treat this issue as serly as should, to the pot where there’s even a gay-panic joke when two men are paired up for the love dg. Edge of Spir-Verse has already ma headl for troducg new variatns of Spir-Man — and Issue #5, that will clu Web-Weaver, who is beg billed as the first gay Spir-Man.
"Somethg I realized immediately when nceivg Web-Weaver is that he n't--and shouldn't--reprent ALL gay men, " Foxe wrote. Marvel Comics’ universe-hoppg Edge of Spir-Verse #5, which hs stor September, will feature three new metaverse versns of Spir-Man — cludg the beloved character’s first gay rnatn, known as Web-Weaver.Marvel scrib the character as a “not-so-d mannered fashn signer at Van Dyne [Indtri]” — the pany owned by Ja Van Dyne, aka the Wasp — who “gets spir-powers and shows a very different kd of Spir-Slayer.”Eisner-nomated gay wrer Steve Foxe, prevly known for his work on the superhero duo ic Archer & Armstrong for Valiant Comics and Marvel’s X-Men ‘92, will wre the story.