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DC Comics has announced the return of its Eisner award-winning anthology comic book, DC Pride. Now in its fifth year, the upcoming book will arrive on June 4 and, as always, spotlight the publisher’s LGBTQIA+ superheroes.
The 96-page Prestige format DC Pride 2025 comic will have a singular story arc of interweaving narratives told by acclaimed comic book creators, including Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujillo, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, and Max Sarin. In addition, DC will publish a series of DC Pride-inspired variant covers for JSA #6, Wonder Woman #22, Detective Comics #1098, Justice League Unlimited #8, and Superman #27throughout June. In addition to Kris Anka’s main cover for DC Pride 2025, Sozomaika, Jack Hughes, and Julia Reck provide variant covers for the issue, while Kevin Wada, Don Aguillo, Stephen Byrne, Rachael Stott,and Hayden Sherman illustrated the DC Pride-inspired variants. In celebration of Pride Month, Gabriel Picolo designed the DC Pride Box Set cover, which collects the first three hardcover volumes of DC Pride and there will also be a Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition cover by J.H. Williams III.
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DC Pride 2025
Written by TIM SHERIDAN, VITA AYALA, JUDE ELLISON S. DOYLE, MAYA HOUSTON, SAM MAGGS, and JOSH TRUJILLO
Art by DON AGUILLO, VINCENT CECIL, DEREK CHARM, A.L. KAPLAN, GIULIO MACAIONE, SKYLAR PATRIDGE, EMILIO PILLIU, MAX SARIN, PHILLIP SEVY, and MORE
Cover by KRIS ANKA
Variant Cover by SOZOMAIKA, JULIA RECK, and JACK HUGHES
In Sheridan, Pilliu, and Macaione’s DC Pride 2025 story, DC’s heroes come together when the center of queer life in Gotham City, a hundred-year-old tavern, unexpectedly announces its imminent closure. Generations of patrons, including the Green Lantern Alan Scott, return to pay respects to a space in which they have created entire lifetimes of memories. Alan returns one last time to where he fell for his first love, Johnny Ladd, “before everything went to hell for them.”
Framed by Alan Scott’s story, DC Pride 2025 will feature Jo Mullein’s story by Ayala, Houston, and Cecil, new character Ethan Rivera’s story by Ellison S. Doyle, Trujillo and Kaplan, Connor Hawke’s story by Maggs and Sevy, Bunker’s story by Trujillo and Aguillo, Harley Quinn‘s story by Houston and Sarin, Blue Snowman’s story by Ellison S. Doyle, Renee Montoya’s story by Ayala and Patridge, and Midnighter and Apollo’s story by Maggs and Charm.
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Alan Scott: The Green Lantern writer Sheridan is happy to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community with the powerful DC Pride 2025 story. “DC Pride 2025 is a celebration of life, love, and the power of community—even and especially in uncertain times,” he said. “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.”
The Neighbors‘ Jude Ellison S. Doyle is also excited to be a part of the project and helm the brand-new character Ethan Rivera. “It is such a huge honor to be part of the story DC has been telling,” he began. “And nd 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.”
Ayala discussed the creative process for DC Pride 2025. “What made this project extra special to me 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,” the writer explained. “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.”
DC Pride 2025 will debut on June 4.
Source: DC
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