Oh how time flies… DC has at the moment introduced the return of its Eisner and Ringo award-winning DC Pride anthology comedian guide this June. This yr, for its fifth anniversary spotlighting DC’s LGBTQIA+ Super Heroes, the DC Pride anthology transforms from a set of quick tales right into a singular story arc of interweaving narratives informed by comedian guide creators Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujillo, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, Max Sarin, and extra. DC Pride 2025 will likely be printed on June 4, 2025, together with a collection of DC Pride-inspired variant covers publishing by way of the month of June. Visit your native comedian guide store to preorder DC Pride 2025 and add DC’s Pride-themed variant covers to your pull listing.
DC Pride 2025 brings DC’s heroes collectively when a century-old tavern, the middle of queer life in Gotham City, unexpectedly broadcasts its imminent closure. It’s an enormous loss to the group, and generations of patrons return to pay respects to an area they’ve endowed with complete lifetimes of recollections, needs and goals—together with Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. Alan returns, for one final time, to the place he fell for his past love, Johnny Ladd, to the touch the wall on which they carved the image of their love, to recollect the times at first went to hell for them…and to say goodbye.
But love is a sort of magic, and, in Alan’s expertise, magic can tackle a life of its personal. Before anybody is aware of it’s occurring, heroes, villains, and civilians alike from throughout the DCU with highly effective ties to this mysterious place—the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman amongst them—discover themselves spirited away to unusual, alternate worlds the place every part they ever thought they needed might be theirs…however at what value?
“DC Pride 2025 is a celebration of life, love and the power of community—even and especially in uncertain times,” mentioned Tim Sheridan, author of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated collection Alan Scott: The Green Lantern. “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.”
Framed by Alan Scott’s return to the bar, in tales by Tim Sheridan, Emilio Pilliu and Giulio Macaione, DC Pride 2025 will function 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 method to DC Pride, every artistic group collaboratively builds in the direction of a standard objective: a comic book guide that’s all in on hope, empowerment, group, and chasing mild in the dead of night.
“It is such a huge honor to be part of the story DC has been telling,” mentioned Jude Ellison S. Doyle, author of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated collection The Neighbors, “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,” mentioned Vita Ayala, author of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated collection New Mutants, “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.”
DC Pride 2025, a triumphant and well timed story of group written by Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, and Josh Trujillo with artwork by Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione, Skylar Patridge, Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, and Phillip Sevy, and extra, will publish on June 4, 2025. The 96-page Prestige format comedian will function a important cowl by Kris Anka and variant covers by Sozomaika, Julia Reck and Jack Hughes (1:25), all priced at $9.99 US (card inventory).
For the guide market, the fourth iteration of DC’s multiple-award-winning Pride celebration, DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches (ISBN 9781799501527), is offered as a hardcover assortment wherever books are bought on May 27, 2025, for $19.99 US. In this universe-spanning travelogue with a canopy by Kevin Wada, DC’s beloved queer characters take readers on a raucous tour by way of the Fourth World, Naltor, A-Town, the Phantom Zone, Portworld, the Oblivion Bar, and extra in a quantity that celebrates how the LGBTQIA+ group is all over the place and belongs wherever—even the very farthest reaches of the universe. This hardcover collects DC Pride 2024 and extra tales spotlighting queer characters as realized by DC’s huge steady of queer and allied creators, together with Phil Jimenez, Al Ewing, Ngozi Ukazu, Nicole Maines, Stephen Byrne, Claire Roe, Giulio Macaione, and extra!
Also on May 27, 2025, DC will publish DC Pride Box Set (ISBN 9781799501589), a $39.99 US shiny, daring, and lovely field set with a canopy by Gabriel Picolo amassing the primary three hardcover volumes of DC Pride! The DC Pride Box Set consists of over 70 unbelievable queer-focused tales and illustrations, delivered to you by an all-star lineup of queer and ally expertise together with Grant Morrison, James Tynion IV, Mariko Tamaki, Nicole Maines, Trung Le Nguyen, Klaus Janson, Vita Ayala, Zoe Thorogood, and many, many extra. Also that includes an in depth tribute to trailblazing author Rachel Pollack and Kevin Conroy’s celebrated autobiographical comedian “Finding Batman,” through which the person behind the beloved voice of the Dark Knight particulars his journey from childhood to hero within the hearts of followers all over the place. This three-book set options 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 an enormous catalogue of books so as to add to your TBR pile, pull listing, Pride-themed guide membership, in-store Pride show, and to share with buddies. Priced at $9.99 US and obtainable all over the place books are bought on June 17, 2025, Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition is the most recent basic DC journey to hit cabinets. Written by bestselling author Greg Rucka with artwork by acclaimed artists J.H. Williams III, Jock, and Scott Kolins,Batwoman: Elegy is a visually gorgeous landmark story which reveals the stunning origin that set the inspiration for one of the DC Universe’s most outstanding LGBTQIA+ characters.
DC additionally introduced that it’s going to add DC Pride comics to its DC GO! webcomics assortment starting in June, adapting titles from the previous 4 DC Pride anthologies into the vertical scroll format. During June, DC GO! will launch two DC Pride episodes a day, Monday by way of Friday for the whole month, with all 42 episodes obtainable to learn in the identical format as authentic DC GO! webcomics like Harley Quinn in Paradise, Nothing Butt Nightwing, and extra.
