DC reveals its Pride 2024 plans: a new special, a tribute to Rachel Pollack, two graphic novels, and a whole lot of covers
Mar. 13, 2024When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The main event
The other stories in the issue include:
The issue’s main cover is by Kevin Wada (in a regular and 1:25 card stock variant), with the other covers including an open-to-order wraparound variant cover by David Talaski, plus foil and card stock variants by Babs Tarr. You can check them all out in the gallery below.
Check out the cover art and a selection of preview pages below.
Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story is a previously announced original graphic novel which promises to reveal Dreamer’s origin story. It’s written by Nicole Maines, who also played the character on the Supergirl TV show, and drawn by Rye Hickman, with color by Bex Glendining, and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Nicole talked to us about the new book a couple of weeks ago, in an interviewwhich you can read here. Here’s the cover and preview pages:
Get the best comic news, insights, opinions, analysis and more!
Last year markedthe passing of writer Rachel Pollack, a groundbreaking creator who, in the ’90s, took Doom Patrol to new, weird heights following Grant Morrison’s departure. DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack is a 96-page one-shot reprinting Doom Patrol #70, written by Pollack and drawn by Scot Eaton, which marked the first appearance of Pollack’s most famous creation, Coagula, DC’s first transgender superhero.
The special will also include the out-of-print Vertigo Visions: The Geek one-shot, drawn by Michael Allred, and a brand new, original Coagula short by Rachel’s friend and collaborator Joe Corallo, and drawn by Rye Hickman.
DC will continue to highlight Pride with new variant covers throughout the year for its series featuring prominent LGBTQIA+ characters. Look out for Pride variants of the following issues.
Read up on some of themost iconic LGBTQIA+ superheroesin comics.
Will Salmon is the Comics Editor for GamesRadar/Newsarama. He has been writing about comics, film, TV, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time if you stop and think about it. At Future he has previously launched scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for over a decade. He sometimes feels very old, like Guy Pearce in Prometheus. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places and he runs the micro-label Modern Aviation, which puts out experimental music on cassette tape.
Creature Commandos – All the Easter eggs, references, and cameos in the first entry of James Gunn’s DC Universe
Absolute Superman #2 pokes fun at generative AI, while sparks fly between Kal-El and Lois Lane
Get hundreds of hours of RPG goodness for $30 with this bundle of 8 games that includes the first two Baldur’s Gate games, which are absolutely worth playing
