DC Comics’ 2022 Pride Anthology Gets a Boost From the Best Batman Ever

In March, DC Comics introduced its intensive plans to have fun Pride Month with new sequence, the debut of recent characters, and extra. But extra particulars have been rolling in, together with the complete roster of expertise that will likely be contributing to this yr’s DC Pride 2022 anthology, which simply occurs to incorporate essentially the most beloved Bat-actor of all.

Kevin Conroy, who’s voiced the Dark Knight within the unique Animated Series, Justice League, and a bunch of different animation and video video games—and is an overtly homosexual man—will likely be telling his personal, “personal” story titled “Finding Batman.” According to DC editor Andrea Shea, Conroy’s first foray as a comics author is a doozy: “2022 marks 30 years of Batman: The Animated Series so it only felt right to honor Kevin Conroy, THE voice of Batman for multiple generations. And we were FLOORED when he delivered a deeply moving personal story in collaboration with J. Bone and Aditya Bidikar.”

Although we knew a number of of the groups who can be bringing their skills to the anthology, DC has launched the complete record of contributors and story titles:

• “Super Pride” by Devin Grayson, Nick Robles, Triona Farrell and Aditya Bidikar, starring Jon Kent/Superman
• “Confessions” by Stephanie Williams, Meghan Hetrick, Marissa Louise, and Ariana Maher
• “Special Delivery” by Travis Moore, Enrica Eren Angiolini, and Ariana Maher, starring Tim Drake
• “Are You Ready for This?” by Danny Lore & Ivan Cohen, Brittney Williams, Enrica Eren Angiolini, and Ariana Maher
• “A World Kept Just For Me” by Alyssa Wong, W. Scott Forbes, and Ariana Maher, starring Jackson Hyde/Aquaman
• “The Gumshoe in Green” by Tini Howard, Evan Cagle, and Lucas Gattoni, starring Jo Mullein/Green Lantern
• “Think of Me” by Ted Brandt & Ro Stein and Frank Cvetkovic
• “Public Display of the Electromagnetic Spectrum” by Greg Lockard, Giulio Macaione, and Aditya Bidikar, starring The Ray
• “The Hunt” by Dani Fernandez, Zoe Thorogood, Jeremy Lawson, and Aditya Bidikar, starring Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy
• “Bat’s in the Cradle” by Stephanie Philips, Samantha Dodge, Marissa Louise, and Lucas Gattoni
• “Up at Bat” by Jadzia Axelrod, Lynne Yoshii, Tamra Bonvillain, and Ariana Maher, starring Alysia Yeoh and Batgirl
• “Finding Batman” by Kevin Conroy with artwork by J.Bone and Aditya Bidikar

Obviously, we nonetheless don’t formally know the opposite heroes who will likely be featured in DC Pride 2022, however based mostly on the artwork above, Kate Kane/Batwoman, Jess Chambers/Kid Quick, and present Amazon queen Nubia will get tales. Additionally, trans actor and activist Nicole Maines—who performs Nia Nal/Dreamer, a hero tailored for the Supergirl TV sequence—win poor health even be writing the intro for the anthology, with hints that Maines, who made her comics debut final yr writing the character into DC’s canon, can have extra initiatives on the publisher quickly.

In addition to DC Pride, the writer’s LGBTQIA+ celebrations additionally embody a brand-new sequence titled Galaxy: The Prettiest Star, two new six-issue sequence starring Poison Ivy and Jess Chambers’ Kid Quick, a four-issue miniseries for Queen of the Amazon’s Nubia, and a DC Pride: Tim Drake one-shot. DC Pride 2022 will arrive on May 31. For extra particulars, and to see some verrrrry tiny glimpses of the artwork, head here!

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