DC announce their June Pride event

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Rather than a series of unconnected stories, this fifth annual DC Pride book will feature a framing story, with different characters having their own episode within it.



From the Press Release:

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?


(I have to say it's nice that, in this currently tense atmosphere in the US, with the administration excising references to being trans, gay, or anything other than cis and straight, DC are keeping going with this.)

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 and Alex Moore
• Renee Montoya’s story by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge
• Midnighter and Apollo’s story by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm.

So the usual suspects, and some new ones, like the new take on the Golden Age Wonder Woman villain Blue Snowman. In the Golden Age she was a female character who simply adopted male guise to divert suspicion from her identity, but when they was reintroduced in 2021 they were genderfluid, and is now confirmed as trans.



I'm not sure which might be the bigger risk, therapy from Harley, or dating advice from Tim Drake, but.....



Okay this is extremely cute, and Bernard does cut a stylish figure in a tux! (I guess Tim now knows Bernard figured out his identity?)



Obsidian always had a great visual and this is awesome



This can only end well....



Super-Allies unite!



I confess I am uncertain who these ladies are....