DC Comics has announced its DC Pride 2026 lineup, which celebrates LGBTQIA+ fans and characters. Galaxy and Dreamer are headlining this years lineup, which includes three interconnected releases -- Justice League Intergalactic Special #1,Galaxy: As the World Falls Down, and Justice League: Dream Girls - A DC Pride Event miniseries-- as well as the hardcover collection of DC Pride 2025's one-shot and stories and a host of DC Pride variant covers.
Justice League Intergalactic Special #1 hails from writers Jadzia Axelrod and Nicole Maines, artist Travis Moore, colorist Tamra Bonvillain, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. The one-shot will see Dreamer and Galaxy team up after Dreamer's journey in Absolute Power and Secret Six, where her mistakes have made her a criminal in the eyes of the Justice League, and Galaxy's role in Hawkgirl, where she is now a welcome member of the Justice League.
The "planet Naltor and the Green Lanterns who protect it fall under the spell of the Witch Queen, who harnesses the world’s dream energy in a bid to expand her reach far beyond its orbit. Star Sapphire assembles a team of Justice Leaguers to liberate the planet, but the mission quickly spirals. Green Arrow wants nothing to do with space, Adam Strange’s ship is attacked before it even reaches orbit…and Galaxy has invited Dreamer aboard the mission without telling anyone. Dreamer’s visions hint at disaster from the very start!" (DC Comics)
Justice League Intergalactic Special #1 goes on sale on April 29, 2026. The comic sports a main cover by Travis Moore and Tamra Bonvillain and a variant cover by Dan Mora.
Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, the sequel to Galaxy: The Pretties Star, is a graphic novel from writer Jadzia Axelrod, artist and colorist Rye Hickman, and letterer Jodie Troutman. The graphic novel story "continues Taylor Barzelay’s journey as she confronts the alien threat of the Vane, questions her place on Earth, and further solidifies her friendship with Nia Nal, also known as Dreamer." (DC Comics)
Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, featuring a cover by Rye Hickman, goes on sale on May 5, 2026.
Justice League: Dream Girls - A DC Pride Event is a four-issue DC All In miniseries from writers Nicole Maines and Jadzia Axelrod and artists Nicola Scott, J. Bone, Brandt&Stein, Stephen Sadowski, Vincent Cecil, Mikel Janín, Rosi Kämpe, and more.
After the events of Justice League Intergalactic Special, Dreamer and Galaxy awaken on Themyscira as princess and champion of the Amazons. A stranger washes up on shore insisting the Dreamer must leave this paradise to save the world, and the landscape around them shifts. Key, a "long-standing Justice League adversary whose ability to manipulate perception and hunger for control over dreamspace make him a uniquely dangerous opponent for Dreamer", is offering Dreamer a perfect version of heroism as Dreamer struggles to go on with trying to be a hero and even with life itself. Meanwhile, Galaxy "fights her way through the dreamworld to pull her friend back from the brink. Her ability to see through the Key’s illusions makes her a threat he’s desperate to expel." (DC Comics)
Each issue will also include an 8-page story. Issue #1 features a Batwoman story from Greg Rucka and Claire Roe. Issue #2 sports a Green Lantern Corps story from Morgan Hampton, Steve Underwood, and Alitha Martinez. Issue #3 includes a Poison Ivy tale from G. Willow Wilson and Maria Llovet. Issue #4 includes a personal story by Klaus Janson - details to be revealed.
Justice League: Dream Girls - A DC Pride Event #1 (of 4) goes on sale on June 3, 2026. The debut issue sports a main cover by Brandt&Stein, variant covers by Clair Roe, Mateus Manhanini, Oscar Vega, and Robin "Zombie" Higginbottom, and 4-issue connected variant covers by Phil Jimenez and Arif Prianto.
DC Pride: The Heart Wants is a hardcover collection of DC Pride 2025's one-shot and additional stories. The collection includes stories from writers Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Josh Trujillo, Jenny Blake, and more, and artists Emilio Pilliu, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, Max Sarin, Sara Soler Ester, Vincent Cecil, Alex Moore, and more.
DC Pride: The Heart Wants, featuring a cover by Kris Anka, goes on sale on May 26, 2026.
(Images via DC Comics - Travis Moore and Tamra Bonvillain's Cover of Justice League Intergalactic Special #1, Rye Hickman's Cover of Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, Brandt&Stein's Cover of Justice League: Dream Girls - A DC Pride Event #1, and Kris Anka's Cover of DC Pride: The Heart Wants)
DC Comics is changing up the format of DC Pride for the special's 5th anniversary. In past years DC Pride was an anthology series spotlighting LGBTQIA+ heroes, but in 2025 the special will instead feature a "singular story arc of interweaving narratives." These narratives are framed by an Alan Scott story from Tim Sheridan, Emilio Pilliu, and Giulio Macaione.
Several of DC comics' heroes will come together when "a century-old tavern, the center of queer life in Gotham City, unexpectedly announces its imminent closure. It’s a huge loss to the community, and generations of patrons return to pay respects to a space they’ve endowed with entire lifetimes of memories, wishes and dreams—including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. Alan returns, for one last time, to the place he fell for his first love, Johnny Ladd, to touch the wall on which they carved the symbol of their love, to remember the days before everything went to hell for them...and to say goodbye.
But love is a kind of magic, and, in Alan’s experience, magic can take on a life of its own. Before anyone knows it’s happening, heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU with powerful ties to this mysterious place—the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them—find themselves spirited away to strange, alternate worlds where everything they ever thought they wanted can be theirs…but at what cost?" (DC Comics)
Stories taking place in the framing device of Scott's return to the beloved bar include:
a Jo Mullein story from Vita Ayala, Maya Houston, and Vincent Cecil;
a story about new character Ethan Rivera from Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Josh Trujillo, and A.L. Kaplan;
a story about Connor Hawke from Sam Maggs and Phillip Sevy;
a Bunker story from Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo;
a Harley Quinn story by Maya Houston and Max Sarin;
a Blue Snowman story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Alex Moore;
a Renee Montoya story by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge;
and a Midnighter and Apollo story by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm.
Additionally, fans can submit about how DC's legacy has impacted or reflected their LGBTQIA+ identity, journey, and/or experience on the DC Official Discord Server until March 28, 2025. DC's editorial team will then select some of the letters, cosplay, and fan art to be published in a letters column inside DC Pride 2025.
DC Pride 2025 goes on sale on June 4, 2025. The special features a main cover by Kris Anka, variant covers by Sozomaika and Julia Reck, and a 1:25 variant cover by Jack Hughes.
Other DC Pride products from DC Comics in 2025 include:
DC Pride-themed variant covers on several titles.
Hardcover collection of DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches - on sale on May 27, 2025 - which collects DC Pride 2024 and additional stories. Cover by Kevin Wada.
DC Pride Box Set - on sale May 27, 2025 - collecting the first three hardcover volumes of DC Pride and a tribute to Rachel Pollack and Kevin Conroy's autobiographical comic "Finding Batman." Cover by Gabriel Picolo.
Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition by writer Greg Rucka and artists JH. Williams III, Jock, and Scott Kolins - on sale June 17, 2025.
DC Pride comics will be added to the DC GO! webcomics collection - adapted into the vertical scroll format during June 2025.
(Image via DC Comics - Kris Anka's Cover of DC Pride 2025 and Gabriel Picolo's Cover of DC Pride Box Set)
