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Hello! My name's Alanna and I'm the lead editor of LOVE UNLIMITED, Marvel Unlimited's romance comic line. This week we finished a story about Gwendolyn Poole, AKA Gwenpool, coming to the realization that she's aromantic and asexual--and though I usually prefer to let the stories speak for themselves, I wanted to talk a bit about this one.
There was basically no awareness of the asexual spectrum when I was growing up--I went through both high school and college secretly feeling like I was some kind of alien in a world that made no sense to me. Finding out that other people experienced the same thing, and that I wasn't weird or broken, was a big moment in my life.
I know how much it would have meant to me to see a character grappling with the same questions I was. I searched desperately for myself in stories as a kid even though I couldn't quite define what I was looking for yet. I'm so glad that there are more ace stories now, and honored that we were able to bring one more into the world.
I was inspired and emboldened to pitch this story by the work my friends Andrea Shea, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt did on Connor Hawke's story at DC, by Latoya Raveneau's ace advocacy within Disney, and by my erstwhile assistant editor and co-conspiritor Kaitlyn Lindtvedt, who, I discovered after a few months of working together, was also ace! We were helped and supported at every step by other aces at Marvel as well--there are more of us than you might think! It's also amazing that our EIC and Marvel greenlit this story and gave us the freedom to tell it the way we wanted.
I'm so grateful to @jeremywhitley, @bailiesartblog and Kelly Fitzpatrick for bringing this story to life. Working with an all-ace team has been so special--there's just something magic about knowing that even though our individual experiences differed, we had something fundamental and formative in common. There are pieces of all of us in this story, if you know where to look.
Anyway! Like many aces, this is something I get shy talking about, haha--so that's all I've got for you! (Unless you want to read more here!) Thank you all for reading and loving the story, and congrats to aroace icon Gwenpool!
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Since Gwenpool came out as aroace I've been trying to find a place to buy the Love Unlimited comics which are where she figures it out, but I have no idea where to find them. Anyone know where I can buy them? I'm not in the United States...
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Find Love with Gwenpool and Marvel Unlimited
Gwenpool’s back and ready for love! What’s a girl to do when she finds herself the star of a romance comic? #comics #comicbooks #digitalcomics #gwenpool
LOVE UNLIMITED: GWENPOOL #43
Writer: Jeremy WhitleyArtist: Bailie RosenlundColorist: Kelly FitzpatrickEditor: Alanna Smith6-issue arc launches on Thursday, March 30
Gwenpool’s back and ready for love! What’s a girl to do when she finds herself the star of a romance comic? First stop–a tragic affair with a boy she can never touch!
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#alanna smith#bailie rosenlund#digital comics#gwenpool#jeremy whitley#kelly fitzpatrick#love unlimited: gwenpool#marvel#marvel unlimited
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The final issue of Love Unlimited: Gwenpool is out today!
The complete series is available through Marvel Unlimited.
This comic is currently a digital exclusive but hopefully with enough interest there will be a print version in the future!
Here’s the announcement from last week in case you missed it:
#gwenpool#gwendolyn poole#marvel#marvel comics#queer comics#lgbtqia+ comics#asexual#ace#aromantic#aro#aroace#asexual representation#aromantic representation#aroace representation#comic books#comics by acespec creators#comic: love unlimited: gwenpool#comics with ace characters#comics with aroace characters
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Here we are, six weeks later...
HEY!
So, in case you haven’t heard, our six week run on Love Unlimited following Gwenpool wrapped up today and...
and as much as I did write all of this and it is extremely important to me, I feel I really need to make sure you all know that this didn’t start with me.
To be completely accurate, it started with Chris Hastings and crew for creating such an amazing and nuanced character out of what could have only ever been a high concept and a cover gag. Not that the cover gag wasn’t good, but the statue that is revealed from that piece of marble over the course of The Unbelievable Gwenpool is truly astonishing.
Then, of course, there’s you. An audience of fans with an incredible love and passion for a character who also saw a lot of the quirks and experiences that we as people on the asexual spectrum experience and talked about it online.
Which is where the incredible @alannawrites, my editor, comes in. Alanna had been looking for an opportunity to tell a story about being ace in Marvel comics. We had kind of skimmed around the edges during Unstoppable Wasp, but ultimately being a character who owed so much to a movie franchise, there were a lot of nerves there. Gwen was not only a great opportunity to tell a story of a person hyper aware that they are in a story struggling with the tropes that affect their actual life, it was a chance to bring about this story for a character a lot of the fandom already saw as ace. Obviously, not everybody, but still a lot.
So when editorial game to okay to tell this story, Alanna reached out to me - somebody she’d worked with but also specifically had just had their own little coming out as demisexual a little while back. I was thrilled by the idea and before long we brought on @bailiesartblog and Kelly and had a full creative team of people on the ace spectrum. This is easily the first time that’s ever been a thought.
For me it was important that it not just be a story of coming out, but that it be a Gwenpool story. A story of knowing how stories work, what tropes you can play with, trying to direct the story where you think it should go, and ultimately finding that the story just won’t comply. And for people who have experienced being on the ace spectrum or a lot of other marginalized genders and sexualities - that’s a very familiar problem.
Ultimately, it’s different from a lot of other Gwenpool stories because it’s not the world around her. She has 2-3 real working possibilities for romantic relationships in this story and one that is about to become a fully adult sexual relationship with a woman whom she really loves before it skips the tracks. Ultimately, it’s not a thing from the 616 that’s holding her back, it’s a thing she brought with her from the real world - her sexuality - and no matter how worthy you are, you can’t beat that with a hammer.
There’ll be lots of time to talk about this later, but along with her actually saying the words and waving the flags above, one of the sequences that’s most important to me is the opening sequence of issue 6
This is the problem sometimes with being story tellers. When you think you know the story, realizing you’re not who you thought you are can feel like maybe you’re a villain. Maybe you’re a monster. Maybe you don’t belong here.
Some people on the internet seem to have decided to misinterpret this sequence as us comparing being asexual to being a monster, when very clearly that’s Gwen doing it. I’m just going to assume they’ve never had the experience of struggling to understand themselves and where they fit. Sounds fake, but whatever.
I love this FF story. I love Ben Grimm. I love this cover and that was why I gave my art team the truly unenviable task of recreating it. Like, I don’t know if you’ve been there, but I certainly have and I’d wager that most of us have at some point.
But perhaps the most important image in this scene is the next one:
Julie sees her friend, her girlfriend, the person that she cares about spiraling and literally yoinks her right out of the frame.
And sits her down and talks to her about it. And listens to her about it. And when she starts asking questions that Julie can’t answer, she finds Gwen somebody who can.
And that is an incredible gift to give to someone. And yeah, maybe we should all do that for each other, but man is it hard. Julie for one is in a multi-month relationship with this girl that just told her that not only was she lying about being ready to have sex with her, but that she didn’t actually like kissing her and has been faking enjoying some aspects of their relationship. You wanna think you would still be there for this person, but that’s a lot to handle and it takes a lot to be the person Julie is in this moment. But, personally, I love Julie Power and I think she’s the kinda person to stick with it.
And ultimately I think this scene is so important to me because I hope this book is our opportunity to be Julie Power to somebody reading this story. I hope someone who is going through a hard time or struggling with how to define themselves will find this story and it can be the hands that pull them out of the cover of Fantastic Four 51 when they need it. Maybe that’s a lot to hope for a comic, but it’s really the ambition I think the team went into this comic with. We want to tell a story about an aroace character coming to terms with who they are and learning to accept and be comfortable with it, but ultimately we hope this story gets to someone out there when they need it and makes the difference.
Well, this has gone really long and I’m sure there will be other things I wanna say about it later, but until then take care of yourselves and hopefully you’ll get the chance to be someone’s Julie Power.
P.S. - Julie, you’re amazing and I’m sure we will find a romance for you that works out eventually. Sorry that we’ve collectively now put you through three breakups.
#gwenpool#julie power#comics#marvel#power pack#deadpool#lgbtqia comics#asexuality#lgbtqia+#love unlimited#jeremy whitley
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might be niche or not but I think about this a lot — spideypool with gwenpool as wade’s tag-along little sister figure that won’t stop freaking out because wade is dating SPIDER-MAN
Gwen: You’re dating SPIDER-MAN?? SINCE WHEN??
Wade: We’ve been dating for a while, you know —
Gwen: Ohmygod my big brother is dating Spider-Man
Wade: We’re not related, you literally deny our dynamic every time I—
Gwen: THAT WAS BEFORE YOU WERE DATING SPIDER-MAN. WE’RE SIBLINGS NOW
Gwen: …
Wade: What?
Gwen: If you and Spider-Man got married, I would be Spider-Man’s sister in law
Wade: … She makes a good point.
Peter: We’re NOT getting married.
Gwen: …
Wade: What is it now?
Gwen: If you two got married, I would be Spider-Man’s flower girl
Peter: Not happening.
Gwen: Why not?
Peter: You would kill my flower arrangement
Wade: Fully intentionally.
Gwen: ……
Wade: Oh my GOD, what is it now?
Gwen: I just want you to know that if you two get divorced, I’m 100% Team Spidey
Wade: …
Wade: You know what, me too.
Peter: WE’RE NOT MARRIED??
I rest my case
#spideypool#spiderman x deadpool#spider man#spiderman#deadpool#wade wilson#peter parker#gwenpool#gwen poole#spiderpool#incorrect quotes#thoughts#spideypool thoughts#i think about them a lot in case you can’t tell#gwen too!!#anyways who’s read the new love unlimited gwenpool issues#i am all for gay gwen#— mq ☽nshit
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gwenpool is wearing a jacket with the aro and ace flags in the preview for her story “everything’s coming up aces” in marvel’s voices: pride 2023!!!!!
#AROACE GWEN REAL!!!!!!!!!!#like i figured but didn’t wanna assume since she presumably is gonna figure it outfor herself in next week’s love unlimited#BUT OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD 💚💜#sorry for turning into a gwenpool blog it will happen again next week#gwenpool#f: marvel#marvel: comics#c: marvel's voices: pride vol. 3 (2023)#ch: gwendolyn poole#t.txt
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i never have the energy to draw her neatly and nicely. sorry gwendy....
#finally read love unlimited gwenpool....#my art#doodle#fanart#gwenpool#gwen poole#gwendolyn poole#marvel#marvel comics
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Gwenpool
Love Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #43
#marvel#avengers#marveledit#comicedit#gwenpool#gwendoline poole#love unlimited infinity comic#616#jeremy whitley#bailie rosenlund#marvel comics#avengerscompoundedit
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Gwenpool is not Gwen Stacy and she is not Deadpool how many fucking times do we have to go over this
#gwenpool#gwen stacy#deadpool#wade wilson#gwen poole#marvel#marvel comics#i love the new fans that are here from love unlimited I do#i'm perplexed by the people who found her through the spider verse movie#but like the least you can do is like read her wiki page#read her comics there are so few please if they started selling again marvel might give her a solo or put her in a print book
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Issue 46 of Gwenpool Love Unlimited is out today! A lot happens this week, so make sure you’re prepared before diving in! In the meanwhile, here are some panels I had fun drawing!
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Hey, if you want to read a story about a Marvel character realizing her asexuality, written, drawn, colored and edited by people on the asexuality spectrum, hop over to Marvel Unlimited, because today is your lucky day!
As I mention in this interview, this story means a lot to me, and I’m so proud of the creative team for working so hard to bring it to life. Everyone put so much love into it, and I’m still just so thrilled we got to do this. I have a lot more feelings about this but I don’t want to get mushy on main yet. Maybe later.
Welcome to the ace army, Gwenpool!
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combining how this used to be a marvel spoilers account and how it's currently an aroace account to share part of Gwenpool's 'Love Unlimited' series where she works out she's aroace. It just feels like really accurate representation!
#aroace posts#aroace#gwen poole#gwendolyn poole#gwenpool#love unlimited#aromantic asexual#asexual#ace#whatisgoingoninspoilers#i talk
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she’s just like me fr…….
#gwenpool#my art#marvel#love unlimited#i’ve never read a gwenpool comic in my life other than the love unlimited story but it fucked me up!!! so good i might get into her stuff#aroace
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i decided to read the gwenpool issues of love unlimited (because asexual rep) and was immediately inspired to make this
#marvel#marvel comics#gwenpool#ms marvel#red dagger#hulkling#wiccan#viv vision#marvel love unlimited#mine
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I am going to sleep but I'm so happy that Gwenpool is canonically aroace. She was one of my favorite Marvel characters when I first got into comics in 2018 because I liked Deadpool but I liked her more since her fourth wall breaking was explained as her BEING FROM OUR WORLD, and we were both chaotic wacky fangirls who loved Marvel. And now we have more in common! :D
#sky screams into the void#im not asking. read the unbelievable gwenpool and love unlimited 43 through 48.#i havent read gwenpool strikes back yet so i dont know if that ones good
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