Posted on 05/05/2025 9:34:06 AM PDT by Angelino97
Marvel Comics’ Pride celebration returns this June with six all-new Pride Variant Covers drawn by superstar cover artist Meghan Hetrick.
For the fifth consecutive year, Marvel’s Pride Variant Covers spotlight the LGBTQIA+ community with stunning portraits of LGTQIA+ characters—ranging from iconic heroes to recently introduced breakout stars. The covers can be found on Deadpool #15, Exceptional X-Men #10, Immortal Thor #24, New Champions #6, Runaways #1, and X-Men #17 throughout June.
The characters featured this year are:
KITTY PRYDE, beloved X-Man and pillar of the mutant community! Kitty is currently guiding a trio of new mutants in the critically-accalaimed Exceptional X-Men ongoing series by Eve L. Ewing and Carmen Carnero.
KID JUGGERNAUT, aka Justin Jin, who made his unstoppable debut in the Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic where his family’s secret legacy with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak was revealed! Now, Kid Juggernaut uses his superhuman strength to be a champion for others in the hit Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic on Marvel Unlimited, written by co-creator Anthony Oliveira.
LOKI, the God of Mischief! Over the decades, Loki has evolved from maniacal supervillain into one of Marvel’s most complex protagonists, with their most recent character-redefining journey occurring in the pages of Al Ewing and Jan Bazaldua’s bold Immortal Thor series.
NICO MINORU, the young sorceress of Runaways and Midnight Suns fame. Nico and the Runaways return this June in a new One World Under Doom tie-in limited series by Rainbow Rowell and Elena Casagrande–Hetrick’s Pride Variant Cover will be featured on the debut issue!
PRODIGY, aka David Alleyne, a breakout character from the X-Men’s Academy X generation. The super-genuis mutant went on to star in titles like Young Avengers, X-Factor, and most recently, NYX by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Francesco Mortarino.
VALENTINE VUONG, the elite assassin who stole Wade Wilson’s heart during Alyssa Wong’s 2023 run of Deadpool, and recently resurfaced in the Merc with a Mouth’s current solo series by Cody Ziglar and Rogê Antônio.
“It was an honor to be asked to work on this year’s Pride Variant Covers. Celebrating these characters in vibrant, personal ways felt especially meaningful right now,” Hetrick shared.
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homo we go!
I hope Democrats go all in on Pride Month this year, hard and heavy. Plenty of tranny stuff.
Then young men of all races will think to themselves “I don’t want to be associated with kiddy groomers and mutilators” and vote Republican in the midterms.
This was being pushed a few years ago, and it was of very limited popularity. I guess that corporation has a couple more million dollars they don’t mind letting fly out the open windows of a speeding car.
"Sales continue to decline! It's clear we're not pursuing our readers hard enough, we're not giving them the stories they want! I want 30 more LGBTQRZWXYZ stories on my desk by 9:00 AM tomorrow."
“LGBTQRZWXYZ”
Wasn’t that the name of the little leprechaun alien that Superman always had to get to utter in order to get him to go back to where he came from? :)
Disney purchased Marvel in 2009 for $4 Billion.
Today Marvel makes most of its money by licensing its characters -- it's classic characters, I assume -- for film, TV, merchandising, and theme park rides.
So no, they don't mind wasting a few million on virtue signaling comic books.
spelling error?
didn’t they mean “the Immoral Thor?”
(he’s sorta cute, gotta admit....would fit right into San Fransicko)
KITTY PRIDE — whose mutant power is a superhuman ability to remember to clean the litter box at least once a week!
Ellen Page had a pretty decent career going as an actress. Kitty Pryde was one of her roles, but she appeared in a number of big movies (”Inception” comes to mind). Quite cute. Now she is Elliot Page, a decidedly unattractive man, a guy about 5 foot two inches tall, and Hollywood just isn’t that into him. Career going nowhere except sympathy gigs because everyone loves transgenders so much.
yeah, that is why I stopped buying comics, not feeding that beast anymore. If I buy, its the old ones from back when I was a kid, no agenda.
Collectors will have to buy them.
Yeah, I remember her from before and have seen photos of him after. What a waste. It’s 38 years old now. I have “suicide by age 45” in the dead pool.
Might as well shred and recycle them as paper products;
napkins, paper towels, even bathroom tissues.
LOL!!! You may be right :-D
The rarer the better, from a collector’s standpoint.
Queer in Capes. “ What’s your superpower?” “I can shoot radioactive gerbils out of my butt”.
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