#blue snowman

[why-i-love-comics]

DC Pride #1 - "The Heart Wants" (2025)

written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle art by Alex Moore

[wondyvillains]

Read for filth 💀 (from this week's MAD ABOUT DC #1 (2026)!)

[toomanyf4ndoms77]

Wonder Woman (1942) Issue #28.

What a lineup. "Wonder Woman has no good villains" my ass, they had a whole team back then.

[edwardwriterman]

Coagula vs Blue Snowman for @judedeluca as part of @dcforgaza

[multi-muse-transect]

The fact Giganta and Blue Snowman is in My Adventures With Superman is criminal. I want a MAWS Wonder Woman show god dammit.

[readingtoinfinity]

DC Pride 2025

For all that it is rainbow capitalism, I'm glad DC released a pride issue this year, especially because the queer community has a decidedly unfriendly environment with the current administration. That a corporation would take pride in it still says that we're not quite so far gone as we could be. It's not the be-all, end-all of activism, but it's a canary that's still happily chirping in the coal mine.

With that said, there's no expectation of quality, so I'm going to go through these individual and giving some quick thoughts... or at least I was. There's apparently only two stories in here, those being "The Heart Wants" and "Master Planner". Scrolling through the pages it does appear that "The Heart Wants" is a step-through story connecting a bunch of little stories into a larger whole, so it's not titled. Instead I'm going to try to go over each individual bit, making it clear by focusing on the character named.

"The Heart Wants"

Alan Scott, Green Lantern: Seems to be the framing device, being as he is on a date with a trans soldier named Ethan, telling about the community he came out (and then left) from the late 30s.

I have really appreciated Alan's coming out story, even if it doesn't jive with the canon as it's been set down so far. I could make some arguments there were signs in the comics I've been reading, but for the most part if Alan Scott is gay then he's the most heavily-closeted man in the universe. But the resulting discussion of Alan's relationship with his son and the queer community in the 20th century provides a look into the dark, more repressed eras that the United States has lived through, and a warning about what it may become if we let things slide back too far.

Each of the heroes is connected by their queerness, obviously, but I don't know if there's a different reason they're all being pulled to this one bar. A desire for a better life, maybe? Each of the characters is affected by an illusion giving them everything they think they want, and how each of them pulls themselves out of it is distinct for each; and it turns out that the location informs more of why they've been pulled in than the person.

And indeed, he becomes the focal point of this pride comic, which explains why he's so prominent on the cover. I won't get into it for spoilers but his history with his sexuality forms the crux about which the stories revolve.

(Also how did Robin and Catman get here. That wasn't in previous bits of the story. I think they just get introduced as the story proceeds and we don't get to see their stories. Also I just realized that Extraño is a pun on Doctor Strange, that's pretty funny)

The ending is bittersweet, reaffirming that we will almost always have to fight for the right of queer people to exist. There's always work to be done.

Wasn't expecting a theme like that to come from this anthology, but it brought everything into a cohesive whole, making each individual part stronger as a result. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in the ways human behavior can be wrapped into superhero comics.

(editing note: I wanted to include thoughts on all the sub-stories but that didn't fit in a single post. Just know I liked all of them and loved a few)

"Master Planner"

Thank you to Sara Soler, whom I follow on Instagram, for reminding me this book was happening this year!

I also had no idea that Jenny Blake Isabella, aka Tony (a name she continues to use, so I feel comfortable with), the creator of Black Lightning, came out as trans earlier this year. It's a brave thing to do, obviously at her age, in this administration, but I especially love the way she writes about the way comic books and superheros informed it, something like what Kevin Conroy did in a previous comic. It's a nice story, and I'm glad it's being told.

There's also a bunch of letters at the end for what superheros and pride means for fans of these series, and it's just pages of affirming the queerness of these comics, in the past and present. I got misty-eyed scrolling through them, and I would recommend them to anyone who wants to see the queer side of these characters represented.

Years ago, Seduction of the Innocent tried to use the inherent queerness of the comics to say they were vile, of the devil. I think it's a wonderful turn of irony that we affirm this today as a cry - nay, a demand! - for equal rights.

Happy pride, everyone. Stay alive, stay safe, in brightest day, in blackest night.

[transgwender616]

"Name 5 Wonder Woman" villains will always be so weird.

Like even going with the tip of the iceberg ones featured in adaptions there's: Cheetah, Giganta, Ares, Dr Poison, Circe.

You could add the ones who gained internet infamy like: Egg Fu, Angle Man, Minister Blizzard, Paper Man, Blue Snowman

[themyskira]

"Gender is fluid, but you'll be frozen solid unless you hand over the cash!" - DC Pride 2025 #1

Honestly, love this for them.