by Matt Sernaker, Editor-In-Chief
DC Pride is back for a new installment in 2025! This inclusive new chapter has something for everyone and also happens to be the PERFECT way to celebrate the recent Best Limited Series – 2025 Eisner Nomination for Alan Scott: The Green Lantern!
Official Synopsis:
When a 100-year-old queer speakeasy-turned-bar-turned-restaurant-and-community-space in Gotham announces that it will soon be closing its doors, generations of patrons come to pay their respects — including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. After all, this is the place where he and his first love, Johnny Ladd, long ago carved their names into the basement wall before it all went to hell… and a love lost is never a love forgotten.
But they weren’t the only ones to put their names in the wall over the years, and suddenly queer heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU — the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them — find them-selves spirited away to a strange alternate dimension that seems to provide everything they could possibly want… but at what cost?
In this single, oversized story of interweaving narratives, the vanished will need to come together and look into the very depths of the Starheart itself if they hope to escape that which ensnares them in this triumphant and timely story of community amid chaos!
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Creative Team: “The Heart Wants”
Writers: Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, and Josh Trujillo
Artists: Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione, Alex Moore, Skylar Patridge, Emilo Pilliu, Max Sarin, and Phillip Sevy
Colorists: Don Aguillo, Eren Angiolini, Jordie Bellaire, Vincent Charm, Tiona Farrell, A.L. Kaplan, Marissa Louise, Giulio Macaione, and Alex Moore
Letterers: Aditya Bidikar, Frank Cvetkovic, Lucas Gattoni, Ariana Maher, Morgan Martinez, and Jode Troutman
Creative Team: “Master Planner”
Writer: Jenny Blake
Artist: Sara Soler
Letterer: Jodie Troutman
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These days, many comic book anthology specials tend to stick to the “standard format” and feature a collection of stories with a very loose connection to an anniversary or theme. Unlike those books, DC Pride 2025 #1 features a clever interwoven narrative that spotlights many of the LGBTQIA+ heroes and villains throughout the DC Universe. The story is grounded by Alan Scott, better known as the Golden Age Green Lantern, who struggles to say goodbye to his lost love. The story features numerous fan favorite characters, including The Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Tim Drake, Bunker, Connor Hawke, Blue Snowman, and more.
As mentioned above, Alan Scott: The Green Lantern has just received an Eisner Nomination for Best Limited Series for 2025. This release acts as a wonderful epilogue for that series, providing a coda to the stellar work that Tim Sheridan and team delivered for six glorious issues. With the new nomination and continuation of Alan’s journey in DC Pride 2025, we hope that the series will get to continue with the same creative team, as their character-driven exploration of the Golden Age hero easily ranks as one of our favorite Green Lantern stories of all time.
With the involvement of so many talented creators with varying styles, it is amazing to consider how seamless this book is. This release is nothing but a celebration, and it was a joy to experience from beginning to end.
Rating: 
ComicsOnline gives DC Pride 2025 #1 – 5 out of 5 impressive uses of the anthology architecture.
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