By Zack Quaintance — This week’s edition of this feature is the best comiXology sales: Pride month list, which features a set of great books from publishers across the industry, including DC Comics, Oni Press, and IDW Publishing. You can check out the full list below…enjoy!

Best comiXology Sales for Pride Month

Batwoman, Vol. 1: Elegy
Writer: Greg Rucka
Artist: JH Williams III
Publisher: DC Comics
In these tales, Batwoman battles a madwoman known only as Alice, inspired by Alice in Wonderland, who sees her life as a fairy tale and everyone around her as expendable extras! Batwoman must stop Alice from unleashing a toxic death cloud over all of Gotham City — but Alice has more up her sleeve than just poison, and Batwoman’s life will never ever be the same again. Collects Detective Comics #854-860.
Why It’s Cool: Perhaps DC Comics’ most celebrated and prominent LGBTQ character is Kate Kane, aka Batwoman, and perhaps the best solo set of comics starring Kate Kane is the stretch from Detective Comics #854 to Detective Comics #860, which is a fantastic story on sale this month for a fantastic price. If you’ve never read these classic comics, it is well past time to change that.
Price: $5.99
Buy It Here: Batwoman, Vol. 1 - Elegy

Be Gay, Do Comics
Writer: Various
Artist: Various
Publisher: IDW Publishing
The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears apart reality. These are the just some of the comics you’ll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride. Brimming with resilience, inspiration, and humor, an incredible lineup of top indie cartoonists takes you from the American Revolution through Stonewall to today’s fights for equality and representation. Featuring more than 30 cartoonists including Hazel Newlevant, Joey Alison Sayers, Maia Kobabe, Matt Lubchansky, Breena Nuñez, Sasha Velour, Shing Yin Khor, Levi Hastings, Mady G, Bianca Xunise, Kazimir Lee, and many, many more!
Why It’s Cool: This is just a great anthology, put together by many talented people, and one that’s a great read in any month. For a more in depth look at exactly why this book is so cool, read our full review from back when it was first released, by staff writer Jacob Cordas.
Price: $5.99
Buy It Here: Be Gay, Do Comics

The Low, Low Woods
Writer: Carmen Maria Machado
Artist: Dani
Publisher: DC Comics - Hill House
Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The coal mines beneath it are long since abandoned. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people in Shudder-to-Think? Well, they’re not doing so well either.
When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenage dirtbags begin a surreal and terrifying journey to discover the truth about the strange town that they call home. Like so many women in Shudder-to-Think before them, all they have is a void where the truth once was. But as time passes, El finds herself needing to know more about what has happened, while Octavia wants nothing more than to forget the forgetting. Can these two teens reconcile their differences before the horrible things lurking beneath their town emerge and swallow them whole? Collects The Low, Low Woods #1-6.
Why It’s Cool: I found myself enjoying the entire catalog of the now-ended DC Comics - Hill House imprint, but my favorite among those was definitely Low, Low Woods, which did something I wasn’t sure was possible in horror in 2021 — laid out a creative concept hat felt almost entirely new. It’s also a book driven by its extremely talented creative team, led by writer Carmen Maria Machado (whose short fiction is fantastic) and artist Dani (who you may know from Coffin Bound).
Price: $5.99
Buy It Here: The Low, Low Woods

Midnighter by Steve Orlando
Writer: Steve Orlando
Artist: Aco
Publisher: DC Comics
Between the supercomputer wired into his brain and the enhancements saturating his body, the living weapon known as Midnighter doesn't face a lot of real challenges to his uncanny combat skills. Lucky for him, he enjoys beating the tar out of low-level bad guys as much as the high-end ones—and since his recent breakup with his first love (and fellow superhuman) Apollo, he's had plenty of chances to engage in his unique brand of physical therapy.
Now, insanely dangerous weapons are beginning to pop up all over the globe, wreaking havoc on society and complicating Midnighter's professional and personal life. As the outbreaks pile up, tracking them back to the original thief becomes an overriding imperative .
Why It’s Cool: I absolutely loved these comics, which are compelling and pugilistic as all get out, just as Midnighter comics should be. Writer Steve Orlando and artist Aco also do a fantastic job writing a rewarding arc for Midnighter’s personal life, which takes him from being a gay man dating and single, to reuniting with his long-time partner, Apollo.
Price: $3.99 for Midnighter, Vol. 1 and Midnighter, Vol. 2; and $5.99 for Midnighter and Apollo
Buy It Here: Midnighter, Vol. 1: Out; Midnighter, Vol. 2: Hard; and Midnighter and Apollo

The Tea Dragon Society
Writer: K. O’Neill
Artist: K. O’Neill
Publisher: Oni Press
From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charming all-ages book that follows the story of Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons.
After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives -- and eventually her own.
Why It’s Cool: Ever week for the best comiXology sales feature, I try to include at least one book (or sets of books) that I haven’t read yet; this week, it’s The Tea Dragon books, which are especially timely given that there’s a third entry in this series went on sale at the start of this month..
Price: $3.49 for The Tea Dragon Society, $6.99 for The Tea Dragon Festival; or $10.48 for both
Buy It Here: The Tea Dragon Society, and The Tea Dragon Festival

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.