Dennis Hopeless

Dennis Hopeless
Hopeless at the 2012 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo
Born	Kansas City, Missouri
Occupation	Comic Book Writer
Nationality	American
Period	2007–present
Notable works	LoveSICK X-Men: Season One Avengers Arena Spider-Woman Vols. 5 & 6 Cable and X-Force
Website
dennishopeless.com

Dennis Hopeless is an American comics writer from Kansas City, Missouri who has written for Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Studios, Arcana Studio, and Oni Press.

Hopeless has written multiple series starring teenage superheroes and has said that he "tend[s] to write about the challenge of growing up." He's been praised by critics for including a female point-of-view in his comics. After finding success with two creator-owned comics, Hopeless began writing for Marvel in 2011. In 2015, Hopeless wrote two limited series as part of Marvel's Secret Wars event. The following year, Hopeless began scripting Marvel's relaunched ongoing series All-New X-Men. That same year, he resumed his writing duties on Marvel's Spider-Woman comic, the sixth volume of the character's ongoing series. The series earned Hopeless some of the best reviews of his career, as he and his creative team received praise from feminist critics for showing the realities of motherhood. In 2017, Marvel began publishing a Jean Grey ongoing series, the character's first, with Hopeless and artist Victor Ibanez at the helm.

Dennis Hopeless worked in a comic store in the mid-2000s while trying to break into the comics industry. In 2007, he created GearHead (with penciller Kevin Mellon), a four-issue comic about a female auto mechanic searching for her lost brother. The series was published by Arcana Studio. His next notable work didn't hit shelves until 2011 when Hopeless reunited with artist Kevin Mellon to create LoveSTRUCK, a supernatural graphic novel inspired in part by Frank Herbert's Dune and Garth Ennis's Preacher that was published by Image Comics. That same year, Hopeless began working with Marvel Comics, writing the second volume of Legion of Monsters (with penciler Juan Doe). The series starred the titular Legion and monster-hunter Elsa Bloodstone.