DC Comics Celebrates Pride Month For A Fifth Year With Specials, Variant Covers, And More
by Olly MacNamee
It’s that time of the year again when DC gears up for its annual celebration of Pride Month with a plethora of comics and covers on offer. And today, we get the announcement and details of the comic book offers for this year.
There’s the return of the DC Pride 2025 anthology comic book this June with a change in format. This year it will tell a singular story arc of interweaving stories and strips as produced by Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujillo, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, Max Sarin, and more. That, and a month-long variant cover programme that adds a bit of extra sparkle to proceedings.
DC Pride 2025 will be published on June 4th, 2025. Here’s the one-shot special’s premise:
“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 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?”
DC Pride 2025 is 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.
A 96-page Prestige format comic, DC Pride 2025, is out on June 4th, 2025 from DC Comics and features a main cover by Kris Anka and variant covers by Sozomaika, Julia Reck and Jack Hughes (1:25).
As for other comics featuring Pride variant covers, they are:
- Detective Comics #1098 (Stephen Byrne)
- Harley Quinn #52 (Betsy Cola)
- Poison Ivy #34 (Betsy Cola)
- Justice League Unlimited #8 (Hayden Sherman)
- JSA #6 (Don Aguillo)
- Superman #27 (Rachael Stott)
- Wonder Woman #22 (Kevin Wada).
Also available in book stores are the following titles:
DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches
Hardcover – May 27th, 2025
“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.”
DC Pride Box Set
3 X Hardcover box set (cover by Gabriel Picolo) – May 27th, 2025
“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.”
This hardcover collects DC Pride 2024 and additional LGBTQIA+ focused stories by creators including Phil Jimenez, Al Ewing, Ngozi Ukazu, Nicole Maines, Stephen Byrne, Claire Roe, Giulio Macaione, and more!
Additionally, the DC Community team wants to hear DC Pride stories directly from readers. Submissions are currently open until March 28th and accessible through the DC Official Discord Server. After the cut off date DC’s editorial team will select a handful of letters, cosplay and fan art, to be published in a letters column of DC Pride 2025.
Also of note is Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition, the latest classic DC comic collection from DC. Written by bestselling writer Greg Rucka with art by artists J.H. Williams III, Jock, and Scott Kolins.
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.”
