DC has unveiled its plans for June 2022, Pride Month, and they include several new comics series.
First up is DC Pride 2022, a new edition of what will now be an annual anthology of LGBTQ+ creators, characters, and stories. Last year’s DC Pride #1 was an 80-page comic, which DC later expanded into a 144-page hardcover (see “‘DC Pride 2021’ Hardcover Coming in April”). DC Pride 2022, scheduled for release on May 31, will be a 104-page, prestige-format comic with an introduction by transgender actress and activist Nicole Maines, who played a transgender superhero in Supergirl. The main cover will be by Phil Jimenez and Arif Prianto, and the comic will also be available with a wraparound variant cover by Joshua “Sway” Swaby and a 1:25 variant cover by Jen Bartel. The stories inside will include
- Alysia Yeoh and Batgirl by Jadzia Axelrod and Lynne Yoshii
- Aquaman/Jackson Hyde by Alyssa Wong and W. Scott Forbes
- Green Lantern/Jo Mullein by Tini Howard and Evan Cagle
- Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy by Dani Fernandez and Zoe Thorogood
- The Ray by Greg Lockard and Giulio Macaione
- Superman/Jon Kent by Devin Grayson and Nick Robles
- Tim Drake by Travis G. Moore
Other contributors will include J. Bone, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt, Samantha Dodge, and Brittney Williams, plus there will be pin-ups by P. Craig Russell, J.J. Kirby, and others.
DC will also release the graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star on May 17, with a preview comic available on Free Comic Book Day (see “DC Announces Two More FCBD Titles”). The graphic novel, by writer Jadzia Axelrod and artist Jess Taylor, is about an alien princess who comes to Earth disguised as a boy.
The Batman: Urban Legends series in which Tim Drake came out as bisexual (see “Media Lights Up with Tim Drake Reveal”) will be collected, along with a new story, in DC Pride: Tim Drake Special, a 64-page one-shot comic by Meghan Fitzmartin, Belen Ortega, and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, that will be released on June 14 with a main cover by Ortega and a variant cover by Travis Moore.
DC will launch three new series during June that will continue throughout the year.
Poison Ivy, by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara, will be a six-issue limited series in which Ivy will set out from Gotham City on a quest to restore the earth. The first issue will be released on June 7 with a main cover by Jessica Fong, variant cover and 1:100 foil variant by Warren Louw, 1:25 variant by Nick Robles, 1:50 variant by Frank Cho, and a team variant by Dan Mora.
Nubia: Queen of the Amazons will also launch on June 7. The four-issue miniseries brings back the creative team from Nubia & the Amazons, writer Stephanie Williams and artist Alitha Martinez, along with Mark Morales. The first issue will have a main cover by Khary Randolph, a variant cover by Jae Lee, and a 1:25 variant by Martinez.
Multiversity: Team Justice, by Ivan Cohen, Danny Lore, Marco Failla, and Enrica Eren Angiolini, is a six-issue limited series that will put Kid Quick (the Future State Flash) and the other teen heroes of Earth-11 in the spotlight. The first issue is slated for June 7 with a main cover by Robbi Rodiguez, a variant cover by Stephanie Hans, a 1:25 variant by Bengal, and a 1-50 variant by Failla.
DC will also have Pride-themed variant covers for its ongoing series by artists Amy Reeder (Batman #124), David Talaski (Superman: Son of Kal-El #12), Derek Charm (Action Comics #1044), Joe Phillips (Aquamen #5), Kevin Wada (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons #1), Kris Anka (Poison Ivy #1), Nick Robles (Nightwing #93), Nicole Goux (Wonder Woman #788), Olivier Coipel (Harley Quinn #16), and Stephen Byrne (Multiversity: Teen Justice #1).
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Source: ICV2
