Carlos Morales
DC has announced the return of its Eisner and Ringo award-winning DC Pride anthology comic book this June, marking the fifth anniversary spotlighting DC’s LGBTQIA+ Super Heroes.
The DC Pride anthology transforms from a collection of short stories into a singular story arc of interweaving narratives told by comic book creators Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujillo, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, Max Sarin, and more. Along with DC Pride 2025, published on June 4, 2025, a series of DC Pride-inspired variant covers will be published through the month of June.
DC Pride 2025 brings DC’s heroes together when a century-old tavern, the center of queer life in Gotham City, unexpectedly announces its imminent closure. It’s a huge loss to the community, and generations of patrons return to pay respects to a space they’ve endowed with entire lifetimes of memories, wishes and dreams—including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. Alan returns, for one last time, to the place he fell for his first love, Johnny Ladd, to touch the wall on which they carved the symbol of their love, to remember the days before everything went to hell for them…and to say goodbye.
But love is a Framed by Alan Scott’s return to the bar, in stories by Tim Sheridan, Emilio Pilliu and Giulio Macaione, DC Pride 2025 will 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, Renee Montoya’s story by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge, and Midnighter and Apollo’s story by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm.
By taking a writers room approach to DC Pride, each creative team collaboratively builds towards a common goal: a comic book that’s all in on hope, empowerment, community, and chasing light in the dark.kind of magic, and, in Alan’s experience, magic can take on a life of its own. Before anyone knows it’s happening, heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU with powerful ties to this mysterious place—the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them—find themselves spirited away to strange, alternate worlds where everything they ever thought they wanted can be theirs…but at what cost?
In a press release from DC Comics, Tim Sheridan, writer of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series Alan Scott: The Green Lantern said about DC Pride 2025:
“DC Pride 2025 is a celebration of life, love and the power of community—even and especially in uncertain times. 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.”
Jude Ellison S. Doyle, writer of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series The Neighbors added:
“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.”
Vita Ayala, writer of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series New Mutants, shared their thoughts,saying:
“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. 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.”
Additionally, the DC Community team wants to hear DC Pride stories directly from fans! Submissions are open from March 3 to March 28 through the DC Official Discord Server for fans to share how the legacy of DC’s storytelling has impacted, or reflected, their LGBTQIA+ identity, journey or experience. Once submissions have closed, DC’s editorial team will select a handful of letters, cosplay and fan art, to be published in a letters column within the pages of DC Pride 2025.
DC also announced that it will add DC Pride comics to its DC GO! webcomics collection beginning in June, adapting titles from the past four DC Pride anthologies into the vertical scroll format. During June, DC GO! will release two DC Pride episodes a day, Monday through Friday for the entire month, with all 42 episodes available to read in the same format as original DC GO! webcomics like Harley Quinn in Paradise, Nothing Butt Nightwing, and more.
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Throughout its line of monthly comic books, DC will continue to highlight DC Pride-themed variant covers on series that feature queer characters in regular and lead roles. This year, look for DC Pride covers on 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).
JSA #6 (Don Aguillo) Pride Variant Cover:
Wonder Woman #22 (Kevin Wada) Pride Variant Cover:
Detective Comics #1098 (Stephen Byrne) Pride Variant Cover:
Superman #27 (Rachael Stott) Pride Variant Cover:
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For the book market, the fourth iteration of DC’s multiple-award-winning Pride celebration, DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches (ISBN 9781799501527), is available as a hardcover collection wherever books are sold on May 27, 2025, for $19.99 US. In this universe-spanning travelogue with a cover by Kevin Wada, DC’s beloved queer characters take readers on a raucous tour through the Fourth World, Naltor, A-Town, the Phantom Zone, Portworld, the Oblivion Bar, and more in a volume that celebrates how the LGBTQIA+ community is everywhere and belongs anywhere—even the very farthest reaches of the universe. This hardcover collects DC Pride 2024 and additional stories spotlighting queer characters as realized by DC’s vast stable of queer and allied creators, including Phil Jimenez, Al Ewing, Ngozi Ukazu, Nicole Maines, Stephen Byrne, Claire Roe, Giulio Macaione, and more!
Also on May 27, 2025, DC will publish DC Pride Box Set (ISBN 9781799501589), a $39.99 US bright, bold, and beautiful box set with a cover by Gabriel Picolo collecting the first three hardcover volumes of DC Pride! The DC Pride Box Set includes over 70 incredible queer-focused stories and illustrations, brought to you by an all-star lineup of queer and ally talent including Grant Morrison, James Tynion IV, Mariko Tamaki, Nicole Maines, Trung Le Nguyen, Klaus Janson, Vita Ayala, Zoe Thorogood, and many, many more. Also featuring an extensive tribute to trailblazing writer Rachel Pollack and Kevin Conroy’s celebrated autobiographical comic “Finding Batman,” in which the man behind the beloved voice of the Dark Knight details his journey from childhood to hero in the hearts of fans everywhere. This three-book set features hardcover editions of DC Pride: Love and Justice, DC Pride: The New Generation, and DC Pride: Better Together.
In addition to DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches and the DC Pride Box Set, DC has a vast catalogue of books to add to your TBR pile, pull list, Pride-themed book club, in-store Pride display, and to share with friends. Priced at $9.99 US and available everywhere books are sold on June 17, 2025.
Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition is the latest classic DC adventure to hit shelves. Written by bestselling writer Greg Rucka with art by acclaimed artists J.H. Williams III, Jock, and Scott Kolins, Batwoman: Elegy is a visually stunning landmark tale which reveals the shocking origin that set the foundation for one of the DC Universe’s most prominent LGBTQIA+ characters.
Stay tuned for more DC Pride announcements from DC between now and June!
DC Pride 2025, a triumphant and timely story of community written by Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, and Josh Trujillo with art by Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione, Skylar Patridge, Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, and Phillip Sevy, and more, will publish on June 4, 2025. The 96-page Prestige format comic will feature a main cover by Kris Anka and variant covers by Sozomaika, Julia Reck and Jack Hughes (1:25), all priced at $9.99 US (card stock).
Visit your local comic book shop to preorder DC Pride 2025 and add DC’s Pride-themed variant covers to your pull list
