There are a decent number of openly gay and bisexual superhero comics writers.
Steve Orlando has done a lot of superhero comics, including a thirty issue run on Justice League of America.
Marc Andreyko had a thirty issue run on Manhunter. He currently writes Supergirl.
Allen Heinburg wrote Young Avengers.
Robert Rodi wrote Elektra, Rogue and various Thor projects.
There are also several openly bisexual writers who have worked for Marvel and DC, including Kieron Gillen, James Tynion IV, Devin Grayson and Kate Leth.
Relevant to Spider-Man, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is openly gay and has had runs on Marvel Knights 4, Nightcrawler and The Sensational Spider-Man.
A bisexual man is the next Batman writer, and it's so not a big deal, you haven't even heard about his sexual orientation.
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Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
I doubt Marvel cares that much, but there will be some idiots online complaining about it.
I agree with you, but it is easy for writers to be pigeonholed. It is also worth noting that Saladin Ahmed currently writes books about a Muslim protagonist (Ms. Marvel) and a brown protagonist (the Miles Morales Spider-Man) although that doesn't suggest that if he had refused those books, he'd be offered Daredevil (just to give an example.)
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Though Ms. Marvel is a case of write what you know, since, like her first writer, G Willow Wilson, he's a Muslim. Bear in mind, the book that ended to make room in his schedule for Magnificent Ms. Marvel was Exiles - which featured an AU Kamala.
Hickman has said X-Men was the last thing on his bucket list at Marvel - it's likely that once he's done with that, he'll go over to DC. DC were already trying to get him to come over to do Legion of Super Heroes, but then X-Men came up, and at around the same time Bendis went over to DC (with Legion being one of his books).
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I don't think writers like Hickman, Morrisson, or King would be good fits for Spider-Man.
Kelly Thompson...I think I could see her writing a satellite or a book spotlighting the female cast/characters more then I do the flagship. Not to say I'd be against it though.
Keep King the fuck away from Spider-Man.
I remember a time when Tom King was the great hope of comics. He wrote Grayson and fans campaigned that he write Batman. He had much love for The Vision, and his Mister Miracle series was super-anticipated. People were even wondering if he was Alan Moore 2.0. These days he's Electric Boogaloo. I must admit that his overuse of the 9-Panel Grid feels pretty amusing unintentionally so...though it fit well with Mister Miracle.
I still think he's a pretty solid writer and I'd take a look at stuff he does. And you know War of Jokes and Riddles was a cool Batman story with great scenes and ideas, Riddler finally became a thing again, and of course "Ballad of the Kite Man" was a cool story (though I think Spencer's Gibbon HU story is maybe better).
Is there anything in his Batman/DC run you like/enjoy?
I love The Vision and liked Grayson so I was happy King got the flagship Batman book. The only thing I really liked was Batman Annual #2, his best Batman story. I also liked I Am Bane. Those are the ones that come to mind. I LOVE Grant Morrison's Batman run and Scott Snyder's was mostly great but King's, no. Heroes in Crisis sucked.
To King's credit, he's done right with Bane in making him work outside of Knightfall which a lot of writers had problems with.
Same here. That to me is the last great run on Batman's. Really weird, funny, bizarre, and so on. I am far less enthused on Snyder though.I LOVE Grant Morrison's Batman run
Well, I'm not a fan of Jessica Jones and I found her mini to be good, although I may be noticing a pattern here, her Captain Marvel run didn't have any interesting villains, and the villain in Jessica Jones was wack, perhaps she struggles with villains.
But then again, there's more to read until I can confirm if such a pattern is there, maybe those two are just bad days when it comes to villains.