DC's Pride Anthology Celebrates 5th Anniversary With All-New Format - The Aspiring Kryptonian

DC’s award-winning DC Pride anthology is celebrating its 5th anniversary with an all-new special in an all-new format!

This year, for its 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 a range of fantastic comic book creators. Stories will be written by Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujillo, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, Max Sarin, and more.

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, and Midnighter and Apollo’s story by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm

Here’s a look at the covers by Kris Anka, Jack Hughes, Julia Reck and Sozomaika:

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?

In addition to ‘DC Pride 2025’, DC will continue to highlight pride-themed variant covers on the series that feature queer characters in regular and lead roles. These series and individual comic books include ‘Detective Comics #1098’, ‘Harley Quinn #52’, ‘Poison Ivy #34’, ‘Justice League Unlimited #8’, ‘JSA #6’, ‘Superman #27’ and ‘Wonder Woman #22’. Here’s a look at those covers by Stephen Byrne, Betsy Cola, Hayden Sherman, Don Aguillo, Rachael Stott and Kevin Wada.