Warning: Contains spoilers for Love Unlimited: Gwenpool #43 - #48Marvel Comics is breaking incredible ground in the world of queer representation, as the iconic disaster reality-warper Gwenpool comes to terms with her asexual and aromantic identity in the pages of the beautiful Love Unlimited: Gwenpool Infinity Comic #48, becoming Marvel's first character to canonically identify on the ace spectrum on panel.

Gwenpool, or Gwendolyn Poole, is a fascinating fourth-wall breaking antihero. She first appeared on a Gwen Stacy-themed variant cover for a Deadpool comic. After positive fan reaction, she was introduced into the Marvel Universe proper, quickly becoming a unique and fully fleshed out character. Her powerful reality-warping powers have allowed her to "retcon" herself into being a mutant, among many other parts of her complex origin story.

Much of Gwenpool's publication history has involved the young woman attempting to stay "relevant" and appear in comics, which is how the six-issue...