Dark Horse and James Tynion IV’s Tiny Onion are collaborating on Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology, a one-shot collecting ten standalone stories by a range of LGBTQ+ creators, including Tynion himself, Tate Brombal (House of Slaughter), Jadzia Axelrod (Galaxy: The Prettiest Star; see “DC Adds Two Young-Readers Graphic Novels for Spring 2026”), Vita Ayala (Finders//Keepers), Zoe Tunnell (see “Sister Wives”), Josh Trujillo (Blue Beetle, and see “Marvel to Combine the Marvel Universe and Planet of the Apes”), Lee Knox Ostertag (see “Graphix to Publish ‘The Deep Dark’”), Kenny Wroten (Everyone Sux But You), Jacoby Salcedo (This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story), Lilah Sturges (Blue Beetle: Jaime Reyes, Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel), and Vash Taylor (Galaxy: The Prettiest Star).
The anthology will have a framing tale by Tynion IV, Brombal, and Isaac Goodhart, the creative team of The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos (see “James Tynion IV Takes His ‘True Weird’ Comics to Dark Horse”), which was nominated for a 2025 Eisner Award. Monsters in Love is the title character’s favorite comic in that series, and some issues include Monsters in Love backup stories.
Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology will have covers by V. Gagnon, Bradley Clayton, and Rian Sygh, and a back cover by Goodhart and Miquel Muerto. It will be released on June 6, 2026, with an MSRP of $9.99.
“Love takes many shapes, and so do monsters,” Tynion said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “These ten stories represent some of the most exciting creators in the industry as well as the love and hope we need now more than ever.”
“My story, Every Witch Way, illustrated by Bailie Rosenlund, takes the classic trans person fear of ‘what if I transition and nobody likes me anymore?’ and turns it on its head,” said Axelrod. “What if you transitioned and were such an incredible smoke show that you started to give your best friend feelings she didn’t know she had? So often we see witches in fiction using magic to make themselves hot as a sign of their descent into evil, but what if that is just self-care? Better living through sorcery. And if it gets you a gay make-out in the bargain, so much the better!”
“The Monsters in Love one-shot is a perfect showcase for the kind of story I like to tell,” said Sturges. “It’s fun and dark and tongue-in-cheek, but it also says a little something about the way that queer communities can form as pearls from the sand grains of heteronormativity.”
Cligk Gallery below for covers!
Source: ICV2
