Another year has passed, and DC Comics has officially announced its 2024 line-up for its award-winning DC Pride series. Launching with a new anthology at the end of May, DC will be celebrating its LGBTQ+ heroes and creators throughout June with special one-shots, a variant cover series, and more — all listed below.
DC Comics has announced the full line-up for the publisher’s Pride offerings, which celebrate its queer heroes, villains, and creators. As always, the centerpiece of DC’s Pride month is its annual and award-winning anthology. DC Pride 2024 #1, organized around the theme of “journeys and destinations,” features a massive range of characters and creators, including industry icon Phil Jimenez writing an autobiographical story “about the fantastical worlds that shaped him.”
DC PRIDE 2024 #1 | |
|---|---|
| |
Release Date: | May 28th, 2024 |
Writers: | Various |
Artists: | Various |
Cover Artist: | Kevin Wada |
Variant Covers: | David Talaski, Babs Tarr, Kevin Wada |
In DC Pride 2024, DC will host an unmissable autobiographical story written by industry legend Phil Jimenez about the fantastical worlds that shaped him, brought to life by Giulio Macaione. This heartwarming story is a can’t-miss highlight, plus Dreamer makes a first-time pilgrimage to her ancestral planet, Naltor, in a story by Nicole Maines and Jordan Gibson; Poison Ivy and Janet from HR go spore-hunting on Portworld in a story by Gretchen Felker-Martin and Claire Roe; Superman (Jon Kent) gets Jay, Bunker, and the Ray together for a boys’ night out in A-Town in a story by Jarrett Williams and D.J. Kirkland; Steel (Natasha Irons) works up the courage to face Traci 13 at the Oblivion Bar’s Pride party for the first time since they broke up in a story by Jamila Rowser and ONeillJones; Aquaman (Jackson Hyde) catches an unexpected ride to the Fourth World just in time for their annual Love Festival in a story by Ngozi Ukazu; Circuit Breaker’s unstable powers fritz him into the Phantom Zone in a story by Calvin Kasulke and Len Gogou; plus a Blue Starman story written by Al Ewing and character pinups, in a volume celebrating how the LGBTQIA+ community is everywhere and belongs anywhere—even the farthest reaches of the known and unknown worlds! | |
As an additional DC Pride teaser, this year’s anthology features a special preview of DC’s upcoming YA OGN The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley by New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Lovely Melissa Marr, teamed up with celebrated artist Jenn St-Onge. | |
Along with the new DC Pride anthology, the publisher is also offering Pride-themed variant covers for a range of popular titles, a special DC Pride: Uncovered one-shot, and — perhaps most poignantly — a special one-shot celebrating the life and work of the late Doom Patrol writer Rachel Pollack. The full DC Pride line-up, including release dates, is available below.
Related
DC Heroines Shine in Ramona Fradon’s Final Covers in Her Legendary 74 Year Career
Comic artist legend Ramona Fradon dies at 97 with some of her final art celebrating DC heroines in variant covers for Women’s History Month.
DC PRIDE 2024 Celebrates Real-Life Comics Heroes Alongside Iconic LGBTQ+ Superheroes
DC PRIDE 2024 Full Line-up | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
Issue Name | Creative Team | Release Date |
DC Pride 2024 #1 | Various (see description above) | May 28th |
DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 | Rachel Pollack, Scot Eaton, Michael Allred, Joe Corallo, and Rye Hickman | June 6th |
DC Pride: Uncovered #1 | Jen Bartel, Phil Jimenez, Jim Lee, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, David Talaski, Babs Tarr, Kris Anka, and more; Scripted by Andrea Shea | June 11th |
DC PRIDE 2024 Young Adult Graphic Novels | ||
Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story | Nicole Maines, Rye Hickman, Bex Glendining and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou | April 2nd |
The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley | Melissa Marr, Jenn St-Onge, Jeremy Lawson, and Lucas Gattoni | September 3rd |
Since debuting in 2021, DC’s annual Pride anthology and related releases, including special one-shots and variant covers, have become a critically-acclaimed highlight of the comic-reading year. In past years, DC Pride anthologies have included now-essential stories about fictional characters and real heroes both, from Connor Hawke coming out as asexual in DC Pride 2022 #1 to Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy’s moving autobiographical story in the same issue. DC’s 2024 Pride program seems to offer the same kind of range.
By embracing real stories about real queer people alongside its beloved (if fictional) superheroes, the annual DC Pride anthology stands out from other corporate Pride celebrations. Fans of the Superman Family, Poison Ivy, and more will certainly be thrilled by the stories and art offered this June, but the features that show real promise are Jimenez’s autobiographical story and the Pollack one-shot, which will celebrate the life of a beloved trans writer along with her original Doom Patrol character, Coagula: DC’s first transgender superhero.
DC PRIDE 2024 Spotlights Queer Characters in Special Variant Cover Series
DC PRIDE 2024 Variant Cover Line-up | |
|---|---|
Issue Name | Variant Cover Artist |
Action Comics #1066 | Betsy Cola |
Batman #148 | Skylar Patridge |
Green Arrow #13 | A.L. Kaplan |
Nightwing #115 | Bruka Jones |
Outsiders #8 | Don Aguillo |
Suicide Squad: Dream Team #4 | Fatima Wajid |
Superman #15 | Angel Solorzano |
The Flash #10 | Nick Robles |
Wonder Woman #10 | Phil Jimenez and Arif Prianto |
Poison Ivy #23 & Harley Quinn #41 | W. Scott Frobes |
Along with the stories included in DC Pride 2024 #1 and DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1, DC’s LGBTQ+ characters and artists get the spotlight in the above variant covers as well as the DC Pride: Uncovered one-shot, which will collect past DC Pride covers alongside an original script by editor and DC Pride mastermind Andrea Shea. With this massive scope, DC Comics’ Pride month promises to be another joyful celebration of everyone from Superman to Circuit Breaker.
DC’s Pride celebrations begin with DC Pride 2024 #1, which is available May 28th from DC Comics.
