By Zack Quaintance — DC Comics has announced its Pride publishing plans for 2022, rolling out four new comics in June while bringing back the DC Annual Pride Anthology that first launched last year. That anthology features 100-pages of comics that tie-in to Pride Month, with many of the other related debuting books scheduled to continue throughout the year.

In addition to the prestige format anthology, the publisher is launching a trio of new series that will continue after Pride Month ends. Those books are Poison Ivy by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara (slated to begin June 7 with a six-issue story arc); Nubia: Queen of the Amazons by Stephanie Williams, Alitha Martinez, and Mark Morales (which also starts June 7, marking a follow-up to the Nubia and the Amazons miniseries that wraps this year); and Multiversity: Teen Justice by Ivan Cohen, Danny Lore, Marco Failla, and Enrica Eren Angiolini (which also launches June 7 and features what is essentially a new Young Justice teamed culled from the multiverse).

Here are the creative teams, as well as the characters they are each working with, for the new anthology:

The DC Pride 2022 creative teams, and the characters they’re developing stories for, 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 Moore
and more to come!

Of note here is that it doesn’t look like any of these creators worked on last year’s anthology, meaning a whole new class of creators having their work elevated in the anthology.

In addition to those continuing series, June will also see the arrival of the DC Pride: Tim Drake Special by Meghan Fitzmartin, Belén Ortega, and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, which collects the story from Batman: Urban Legends and also includes a new story in which Tim teams up with some of the Young Justice crew as well as the Batgirls. That book will span 64 pages.

So exciting stuff coming in June. You can see the full list of forthcoming DC Comics Pride-related comics below, followed by a list of titles that will feature variant covers. We also have a set of those variant covers below for your perusal…enjoy!

DC 2022 Pride Publishing Plans

DC Pride 2021 (4/26)

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star (5/17)
Crush & Lobo (5/17)
Midnighter: The Complete Collection (5/24)
Aquaman: The Becoming (5/24)
Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 2 (5/24)
Superman: Son of Kal-El Vol. 1: The Truth (5/31)
DC Poster Portfolio: DC Pride (5/31)
Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack Omnibus (7/5)
Harley Quinn: The Animated Series – The Eat. Bang! Kill Tour Vol. 1 (8/30)

Throughout DC’s line of monthly comics, DC’s 2022 Pride-themed variant covers will feature artwork by 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), Stephen Byrne (Multiversity: Teen Justice #1), and more.

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He has written about comics for The Beat and NPR Books, among others. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.