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DC Pride is going big and completely reinventing itself for the fifth anniversary of the event spotlighting DC’s LGBTQIA+ characters. Not only will there be a revamped approach to the annual anthology, reprints, and variant covers… But the previous four anthologies will be adapted to the vertical DC GO! format, and released daily for the entire month of June.
As in previous years, the cornerstone of the event is DC Pride 2025, which will be published on June 4, 2025. While previous years had a straight (no pun intended) anthology format, this year will shake things up a bit to tell an overarching story focusing on Alan Scott, the Green Lantern.
In the story by Tim Sheridan, Emilio Pilliu and Giulio Macaione, Scott will return, per a press release provided to Comic Book Club, to a “century-old tavern, the center of queer life in Gotham City,” which is unexpectedly closing. As Alan returns to “the place he fell for his first love, Johnny Ladd,” and touches the spot on the wall where they carved their symbol of love, it somehow sends people to “strange, alternate worlds where everything they ever thought they wanted can be theirs…but at what cost?” That includes heroes, villains, and regular folks, including The Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman.
“DC Pride 2025 is a celebration of life, love and the power of community—even and especially in uncertain times,” said Sheridan. “The roster of talent shaping this story is as epic as the story itself—so all I can say is buckle up for big action, bigger fun, and the biggest stakes yet. This book, as it has been in years past, is a way to reach out to our community and remind them we’re all in this together.”
Alongside the Alan Scott framing device, the book will also feature:
Jo Mullein’s story by Vita Ayala, Maya Houston and Vincent Cecil.
New character Ethan Rivera’s story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Josh Trujillo and A.L. Kaplan.
Connor Hawke’s story by Sam Maggs and Phillip Sevy.
Bunker’s story by Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo.
Harley Quinn’s story by Maya Houston and Max Sarin.
Blue Snowman’s story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Alex Moore.
Renee Montoya’s story by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge.
Midnighter and Apollo’s story by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm.
DC Pride 2025 main cover by Kris Anka
The whole team worked together with a “writer’s room approach” which DC hopes “builds towards a common goal: a comic book that’s all in on hope, empowerment, community, and chasing light in the dark.”
Added Doyle, “It is such a huge honor to be part of the story DC has been telling, and to help Josh Trujillo bring new character Ethan Rivera—along with my own personal soulmate and/or best friend, trans icon Blue Snowman—into this universe. It’s also my first chance to work with A.L. Kaplan since Maw, and he’s a future legend who continues to awe me with his work. It was just really great, and healing, to hang out with a bunch of queer people and make some comics, and I could not have hoped to meet a more talented group of people.”
“What made this project extra special to me,” said Ayala, “was the way that the collaboration of creating the anthology almost mirrors the framework and ultimate solution of the metaphor at the heart of it. We got together in a (virtual) room, each with ideas for our own piece of the narrative, and at the end of the time we had interwoven our stories in ways that make it hard to tell where one person’s contribution ends and another begins. We approached the work as collaborators, and ended up creating a community space that (we hope) welcomes everyone in from the cold, no matter what door (or which individual short story) people came through.”
The 96-page Prestige format comic will hit stores on June 4, 2025 with a man cover by Kris Anka, and variant covers by Sozomaika, Julia Reck and Jack Hughes.
Hey, you know who else could be in the book? You! That’s right, from March 3 through March 28, submissions are open in the DC Official Discord Server for fans to submit letters, cosplay and fan art reflecting how “DC’s storytelling has impacted, or reflected, their LGBTQIA+ identity, journey or experience.” Select entries will be published in the letters page of DC Pride 2025.
Not forgetting about the previous, award-winning anthologies, DC will also offer a reprint of last year’s special, now labeled DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches. Priced at $19.99, the hardcover book will hit stores on May 27, 2025, and features a cover by Kevin Wada. And on the same day, DC will also publish the DC Pride Box Set, which at $39.99 will collect the first three DC Pride collections in hardcover: DC Pride: Love and Justice, DC Pride: The New Generation, and DC Pride: Better Together.
Alternately, if you have a DC GO! subscription, you’re in luck. The publisher is adapting the first four DC Pride anthologies for the vertical scroll format, and will roll out two episodes a day, Monday through Friday, throughout the month of June. By the end of the month, all 42 episodes will be available to read on the platform.
In addition, the previously announced Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition by Greg Rucka, with art by J.H. Williams III, Jock, and Scott Kolins will hit stores on June 17, 2025.
And to round out the celebration, DC will highlight their queer characters on variant covers, including Detective Comics #1098 (Stephen Byrne), Harley Quinn #52 and Poison Ivy #34 (Betsy Cola), Justice League Unlimited #8 (Hayden Sherman), JSA #6 (Don Aguillo), Superman #27 (Rachael Stott), and Wonder Woman #22 (Kevin Wada). You can check some of those out below, and click for larger versions.
Wonder Woman #22 variant cover by Kevin WadaSuperman #27 variant cover by Rachael StottJustice League Unlimited #8 variant cover by Hayden ShermanSA #6 variant cover by Don AguilloDetective Comics #1098 variant cover by Stephen Byrne
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