A review by malloryrt4
DC Pride 2021 #1 by Sam Johns, Andrew Wheeler, Andrew Wheeler, Nicole Maines

4.0

Overall, enjoyable, fun, and sweet. The fact that this exists makes my little queer heart so happy! Some stories I absolutely adored while others didn't speak to me quite as much. Some of that is just the nature of short comics that I understand in an anthology like this. I didn't know the characters beforehand so the stories didn't hit quite the same way and there were just not enough pages to make that connection (though some of them did manage to!). I saw another critique that they should have done profiles on the comic characters from the stories as opposed to the TV characters/actors and I agree. Or at least maybe both? It would have been nice to have some background on the ones that are a bit lesser known. Also, the end of the last comic was a bit heavy handed but you still love to see it. There are definitely things they could have done better, but I was still so happy to read it, I'll absolutely read it again, and I'll definitely be purchasing the 2022 version (also, I'll never get over Jen Bartel's Harley and Ivy variant. Like, never ever.)