#dc pride: a celebration of rachel pollack

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DC announces their plans for Pride Month 2024

The DC Pride anthology returns, along with a tribute book to Rachel Pollack, new YA graphic novels and more.

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack by Rachel Pollack, Joe Corallo, Michael Allred, Scot Eaton and Rye Hickman. Cover by various. Out in June.

"In the 1990s, writer Rachel Pollack did the impossible: she raised the bar for surprise and strangeness in her beloved run following Grant Morrison’s career-making Doom Patrol! This one-shot reprints the debut of the iconic Coagula, DC’s first transgender superhero, from Doom Patrol #70, along with the long-unavailable one-shot Vertigo Visions: The Geek (with superstar artist Michael Allred)! And in a final, original short story, Rachel’s most beloved creation, Kate Godwin, a.k.a. Coagula, returns to the spotlight in tale of triumph over death itself written by Joe Corallo, Rachel’s longtime friend and collaborator, and drawn by Rye Hickman!"

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DC Comics Announces "DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack" and "DC Pride: Uncovered"

In addition to DC Pride 2024, on sale May 28, 2024, DC Comics has announces a couple other DC Pride titles for 2024 - DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack and DC Pride: Uncovered.

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack celebrated the life of works of writer Rachel Pollack. The 96-page one-shot comic book will reprint the debut of Kate Godwin / Coagula, DC's first transgender hero, from Doom Patrol #70, who was created by Pollack and pencilled by Scot Eaton. The comic will also reprint Pollack and artist Michael Allred's Vertigo Visons: The Geek. Finally, the one-shot will also feature a new Coagula short story from Pollack's friend and collaborator Joe Corallo and artist Rye Hickman.

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 goes on sale on June 6, 2024.

DC Pride: Uncovered #1 is a collection of variant covers spotlighting DC's LGBTQIA+ characters across the DCU. The collection is scripted by Andrea Shea, DC editor and includes covers from Jen Bartel, Phil Jimenez, Jim Lee, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, David Talaski, Babs Tarr, Kris Anka, and more.

DC Pride: Uncovered #1 goes on sale on June 11, 2024. The collection of covers features a main cover by Jen Bartel and variant covers by Oscar Vega, Luciano Vecchio, Mateus Manhanini, and Jim Lee, Scott Williams, and Tamra Bonvillain.

(Images via DC Comics - Cover of DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 and Jen Bartel's Main Cover of DC Pride: Uncovered #1)

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DC's Pride Anthology returns in 2024 with a celebration of Rachel Pollack and more!

DC's Pride Anthology returns in 2024 with a celebration of Rachel Pollack and more! #comics #comicbooks #lgbt

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 - "Shinning Through the Wreckage" (2024)

written by Joe Corallo art by Rye Hickman

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welcome back, Kate DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 (2024)

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Top New DC Comic Releases for the Week of June 5, 2024.

Batman #148,

Birds of Prey #10,

DC Pride: Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1,

Kneel before Zod #6,

Mad Magazine #1 Facsimile,

My Adventures with Superman #1,

Poison Ivy #23,

Shazam #12,

Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham asylum #5 +

The Boy Wonder #2.

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DC PRIDE: A CELEBRATION OF RACHEL POLLACK #1

Written by RACHEL POLLACK and JOE CORALLO

Art by SCOT EATON, MICHAEL ALLRED, and RYE HICKMAN

Cover by VARIOUS

$9.99 US | 96 pages | One-shot | Prestige Format

ON SALE 6/4/24

In the 1990s, writer Rachel Pollack did the impossible: she raised the bar for surprise and strangeness in her beloved run following Grant Morrison’s career-making Doom Patrol! This one-shot reprints the debut of the iconic Coagula, DC’s first transgender superhero, from Doom Patrol #70, along with the long-unavailable one-shot Vertigo Visions: The Geek (with superstar artist Michael Allred)! And in a final, original short story, Rachel’s most beloved creation, Kate Godwin, a.k.a. Coagula, returns to the spotlight in tale of triumph over death itself written by Joe Corallo, Rachel’s longtime friend and collaborator, and drawn by Rye Hickman!

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THEY'RE GONNA BRING HER BACK <3

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DC Pride 2023 Tribute to Rachel Pollack

This is a transcription of the text that appears at the end of DC Pride, written by a variety of authors in memory of trailblazing writer Rachel Pollack. I've done my best to copy everything exactly as it was written, and I apologize for any errors. It's over 3,000 words, so I'm going to put it under a cut outside of the foreword. The rest of the tributes are in plain text and not italicized except in places where they were by the original authors.

(If you would like a PDF of the following transcription, one is available here.)

“On April 7, 2023, the legendary writer and Tarot expert Rachel Pollack passed at age 77. Her work for DC's Vertigo imprint—including the celebrated Vertigo Tarot deck and a long run on Doom Patrol that was a deep influence on the property's recent HBO Max series—was profoundly meaningful for generations of comics fans. She was a trailblazing trans woman in comics and sci-fi communities that were frequently male-dominated, and her lifelong love of both superheroes in particular and the comics medium in general allowed her to confidently turn their storytelling tropes inside out, truly queering her comics in every sense of the word.

In the months before her passing, the editors of DC Pride were speaking to Rachel about writing a new story for this very issue, and her enthusiasm for the project was boundless, as she planned to return to her themes of the superhero and the secret identity, of the "kink" of costumes, and of the revelatory freedom that she found in these characters. Unfortunately, just as work was set to begin on the script, completing it became impossible for her. In the absence of that last great work, but with gratitude for the incredible stories she did give us, we've opted to turn the pages we reserved for Rachel's story over to her friends, and to the fans whose lives she changed, to share their memories of her.”

—Unspecified Author or Editor

“I met Rachel Pollack in 1985, at a convention, where I was interviewing her about Salvador Dali’s Tarot, and then I met her again a couple of days later at the Milford Science Fiction Writers’ Conference, and we became friends fast. She was smart and funny, she was a brilliant writer, and she was the first person I’d met who knew more than I did about obscure Jewish mythology.

She told me off for writing a line of dialogue. ‘But that’s the only thing in the whole story that’s actually true,’ I told her, and she explained that art truth and reality truth were two very different things. And I knew she was right.

I don’t know how much I learned about writing, but listening to Rachel and Gwyneth Jones and John Clute and Lisa Tuttle and the rest of them, I learned so much about reading, and what I learned would change me as a writer.

Rachel was my friend. I had never met a person who had transitioned before and I had so many questions and, patiently, she answered all of them. She decided I needed to know Roz Kaveney, and Roz and I have been friends for decades now.

In 1988 I was writing Books of Magic and knew I needed a Tarot reading in the comic. Rachel was in London, and I asked her what the reading should be. She took me out to buy a Tarot deck that spoke to me, and I saw what happened when Rachel Pollack walked into a Tarot shop. It was a little like what happened when The Beatles went on Ed Sullivan. And then she gave me a beautiful reading of four cards, which encapsulated the whole of the story I was trying to tell.

She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1989 for Unquenchable Fire, and I read it and suspected Rachel was creating her own school of fiction, her own brand of magical realism.

We argued, gently, about Wanda’s fate in A Game of You, and Rachel did what I wish everyone who had an argument about art would do, which is she took what she wanted to say and put it into a comic. Tom Peyer had asked her to write Doom Patrol after Grant Morrison left, and she did a remarkable job. I loved the delirious joy of her comics, the magic and the sense of fun, in Doom Patrol and in the comics that followed Doom Patrol.

I was thrilled to see Rachel when I moved to Upstate New York, and then I didn’t see her for years. I did that thing where you think you’re in touch with your friend, but really you’re just on social media at the same times. I was stuck out of the country during COVID, and Rachel had cancer. I was thrilled when I returned to hear that she had beaten the cancer, and then I was going to see her and she hadn’t beaten the cancer. A whole new cancer had turned up on the day she had beaten the first one.

I got to see Rachel more in the past few months than I had in the previous few years. She was as funny as ever, as sharp and as wise. I got to know her wife, Zoe, and to appreciate their love. I got to tell her bad Jewish jokes that, I suspect, I’d probably first heard from her. ‘Everywhere I went, people said ‘Look at the schmuck on the camel!’’ Some people die well—not necessarily bravely, necessarily, but gently and wisely and kind. Rachel was going to be one of those. She asked me to come to her funeral, and I said that I would.

Her funeral, several months later, was in the sunshine. It was filled with friends of hers from comics, from fiction, from Tarot, from writing, from teaching, from family, from the world, and Rachel lay above the grave on a wooden plank, wrapped in white winding sheet. We said true things about her, and we were funny and honest and there was so much love, and then we shoveled the earth on her, and cried, and said our goodbyes.

I’ve never met anyone like her. I’m glad she was my friend.”

—Neil Gaiman

“Rachel Pollack and I had the same favorite comic book—why, Doom Patrol, of course—and for a while she was its writer and I was its editor. She followed Grant Morrison, whose name was big and growing even then, and for years it seemed like Grant’s era might totally eclipse hers in memory. But DC released her Doom Patrol omnibus in 2022, and in the process unwrapped the radiation-proof bandages from her work, exposing the piercing and radiant appreciation that so many fans felt for it. On top of that, this year Dennis Culver and Chris Burnham, the creators of the excellent Unstoppable Doom Patrol, paid a moving in-story tribute to Rachel’s cast of broken-but-healing heroes.

I’m glad she got to see the omnibus, and I’m grateful for the chance it gave us to relive her perceptive, ironic, unsettling, and revelatory run. It was known for being strange and surreal, but there was so much more going on. Doom Patrol had been weird before, and funny, but never quite as wise or kindly meant.

A story that I always think of when I think of Rachel featured yours truly. At the end of my time as an editor—I had decided I wanted to write full-time—I called the creators I worked with to let them know I was leaving. Most of them, quite understandably, reacted with some implied variation of ‘What’s going to happen to me?’ It made me start to think I was being horrible and selfish. But when I called Rachel and nervously told her what I had decided, there was a silence, and then she said, ‘Quitting is good for the soul.’”

—Tom Peyer

“I met Rachel Pollack in the late ‘90s at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention where we were both guests. It was the first day of the con, and they were introducing all the guests. I had read Rachel’s Doom Patrol comics and at least one of her books, Unquenchable Fire, and was excited about meeting her. She must have felt the same about me, because when the introductions were over, we headed straight toward each other as though we’d been magnetized, and we became friends immediately.

We lived on opposite sides of the continent, so we didn’t get to see each other that often, but thank the Goddess for email. I visited Rachel’s house once and she visited mine once. Her house was nicer. She took me to visit Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt’s old home, now a historic site—we were both FDR fans—and I taught her a Yiddish World War II song. We were both into our Jewishness, but from different angles. Rachel was interested in the mystic side, and I was into Yiddishkeit. Rachel had a bat mitzvah, and I studied Yiddish.

Rachel and I discovered we had the same birthday—August 17, which we shared with Mae West and Davy Crockett. So we sent each other birthday cards that also included happy birthday wishes to Mae and Davy.

I knew Rachel had written many books on the Tarot, so when one day I found a complete set of Tarot cards lying in the street, I decided the Goddess wanted her to have them, and I sent them to her on our birthday. After that, the Goddess would put out Tarot cards for me to find almost every year, often just in time for Rachel’s birthday presents. In return, she sent two Tarot cards that she had drawn for me when I was being treated for cancer. (I’m cancer free now!) I saved them and put them away safely—somewhere.

Last year a neighbor who was a collector of stuff died and left his collections to us, his neighbors, to take for free. Among all the stuff in his stuff-filled rooms was an unopened set of Tarot cards. Shortly after I found the cards, my Romani neighbors who lived around the corner put a book on Tarot out on the street, so I took that for Rachel. I mailed the book and cards to Rachel for our birthday.

For the first time, I got no answering card. I didn’t know that Rachel’s lymphoma had come back.

And somehow, it all got away from me.

Periodically, I would think, ‘Phone her—must phone Rachel,’ but something would come up and I’d forget to phone, or it would be too late to phone because of the time difference between New York and California. Damn it!

I miss you, Rachel. In our next lives, I’ll try to be a better friend.”

—Trina Robbins

“I first met Rachel Pollack when I was the assistant editor on The Sandman and she was the new Doom Patrol monthly writer. I shared an office with Tom Peyer, who was Rachel’s editor, and when Rachel swept in like a redheaded bohemian priestess, I always wound up putting aside my own work so I could chat a bit with Rachel as well. She had the rare gift of wielding her considerable expertise about comics and mythology in a way that made the person talking to her feel smarter.

After I left DC Comics to write full-time, I moved to Rhinebeck and discovered that Rachel lived there, too. We formed a small writing group that met once a week, usually in my kitchen. Always as kind as she was insightful, Rachel spent more time celebrating what worked than critiquing what didn’t. She did a lot of celebrating, of others’ writing and of her own, delighting in the words and worlds that moved through her.

She was, pre-pandemic, a frequent guest at my Passover Seder, the only person besides myself and my mother who knew all the Hebrew and all the traditional melodies. Her vast knowledge of midrash and Kabbalah made her comments more delicious than the charoset she made, and let me tell you, that was pretty damn good. 

In October, when she started to get really sick and I started to visit more frequently, often with Neil Gaiman, Rachel defied any expectation of how a dying person ought to act. She cracked Borscht Belt jokes and talked about writing and writers, and then I went with her wife, Zoe, to pick out a grave. We discussed the Tarot, which I had belatedly begun to study along with her seminal book on the subject, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. I asked, ‘What does it mean when you get an auspicious card in a place that means it’s negative?’ ‘It means that’s what you’re struggling with,’ she replied.

I am struggling with this turn of the cards. I cannot fully fathom that she will not be sitting at our favorite local café, writing, but ready to put down her antique fountain when she sees me. Yet when I turn back to her writing, I feel her still with me: Doom Patrol Rachel, Writing Partner Rachel, Rachel of the Passover Seder, Rachel Poet, Rachel Priestess, Rachel Friend.”

—Alisa Kwitney

“Rachel Pollack loved comics.

When we first talked about comics, it was about her own. Eight years ago I asked Martha Thomases if the Doom Patrol run after Grant’s was worth checking out, as I hadn’t heard much talk of it. She said ‘Yes. Read it.’ I adored the run and reached out to Rachel via email to let her know. To my surprise, I heard back from her within 20 minutes.

Over time we talked about the comics and creators that she loved. Carl Barks and the Duck comics, particularly the characters of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, meant a great deal to her. Little Lulu was high on her list. And The Fox and the Crow inspired a whole arc of her Doom Patrol run. The works of Jack Kirby (particularly on Fantastic Four and the Fourth World saga), Steve Ditko, and Gene Colan were brought up often, as were series including Xambi and Promethea, which she revisited often. She had even reached out to Marvel back in the early ‘70s inquiring about writing opportunities, two decades before writing at DC. 

Rachel saw the inherent queerness in superhero comics back in the Silver Age. One example she would reference was “The Town That Hated Superboy!” from 1967’s Superboy #139. In it, the citizens of Smallville turn against Superboy for nearly two pages. What stood out to Rachel was how Ma and Pa Kent pretended to hate Superboy out of fear that if they didn’t, those around them might suspect that Superboy was really their adoptive son, Clark. Though taking this sequence and relating it to an idea as heavy as the violent consequences of inadvertently outing someone by simply treating them with kindness was unlikely Otto Binder’s intention, the subtext was picked up on by many queer comics readers at the time in addition to Rachel.

Through the years I got to have a greater understanding of Rachel’s unbelievable kindness as well. She saw the world as a positive place and held out hope for just about everyone. Rachel discussed how attitudes with London’s Gay Liberation Front turned against the trans community in the ‘70s, but she would also talk about how some of the same people came back around and were vocal advocates for trans rights by the ‘90s. Whereas most, understandably, would allow themselves to be bitter and resentful, Rachel’s capacity for love and compassion was too strong for that.

I was devastated knowing just how many projects Rachel had in the works and how many stories she still had to tell. But after taking time to think on it, I know that no matter how long she stayed here with us, her work would never be done. Her stories will continue through those who love her and those who haven’t found her yet but will love her just the same. 

I love talking about Rachel’s work and her kindness. I plan on doing so for the rest of my life.”

—Joe Corallo

“‘It’s so cool that you created the first trans superhero,’ a very nice person told me recently. Writing feels like stuffing a message in a bottle and lobbing it out into the open sea, so to meet someone who had caught one of my bottles and read what was inside was extremely exciting. Unfortunately, I am a nerd first and a lover of accolades second, so I had to correct them. 

Galaxy, the character I created, is not the first out trans superhero in the DC Universe. Kate Godwin, created by Rachel Pollack 30 years ago, is. Kate is important, but more than that, she’s important to me. 

I was a teenager 30 years ago. That’s also important.

There’s a lot of talk of firsts in superhero comics, most of it meaningless. Dick Grayson absolutely deserves the ‘Sensational Character Find of 1940’ label trumpeted on the cover of his first appearance, Detective Comics #38, but you don’t need to read it, even as a die-hard Robin fan.

You can’t say that about Doom Patrol #70, the first appearance of Kate Godwin. That issue changes everything. That issue changes lives. Because Kate, a kind and funny woman, with an amusing power set and questionable taste in superhero outfits, who is beautifully, unapologetically trans—Kate is the viewpoint character.

Imagine the power of that. Holding up a trans woman—a lesbian trans woman, at that!—and saying ‘This, this is who you, the reader, should identify with.’ To have a trans woman be smart and pretty and likable, and not an object of scorn or pity, or a side character. She was the hero! I can tell you from experience, that is a tough sell now.

Reading that comic in the 1990s felt like a lightning bolt from heaven.

It was too powerful for my teenage self to handle. It was radioactive, and yet I would read my copy ragged to bask in its glow. I can call up its panels from memory. When I finally began my transition, many years later, I wore a lot of black tank tops and jeans, unconsciously aping Kate’s unofficial uniform. I didn’t put it together until recently, rereading those 30-year-old stories that I had imprinted upon like a baby bird. Early on, I wasn’t sure of the kind of woman I was, but clearly I knew the kind of woman I wanted people to see. Someone like Kate Godwin.

I never got the chance to meet Rachel Pollack and tell her how I had received her message in a bottle. How I had held it close to my heart until I finally found the strength to absorb its message. How she showed me I wasn’t alone, and I could be a hero, even if that just meant saving myself.

But I hear people say those words to me, having read about Galaxy. Which will have to do.

Thank you for being first, Rachel.”

—Jadzia Axelrod

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack. Reprinted from Vertigo Visions: The Geek. Art by Mike Allred

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The Barbie movie ripped off Rachel Pollack smh. A trans woman did it first 30 years ago!

Happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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Resources for an Incomplete Queer History of DC Comics

About two months ago, for my final project in an elective I was taking about Queer History I researched a part of queer history that we didn't touch on in class and then compile resources and create a reader based on our topic. I chose to research Queerness in DC Comics. This project was very important to me and it kind of feels weird to just let it disappear into the ether, and I figured it might be appreciated here.

This history is very much incomplete (it focuses very much on the 80's and 90's and my own centers of knowledge, lingering on things I found interesting) and I'm sure there are people who have done it better, but I wanted to share it anyway. This is also very much meant to be a celebration of queerness and queerness in comics, so it shines a very nice light on DC that they may or may not deserve. Some of the resources I'm including here aren't in my final project because of either time and space constraints, or because they were a little too out there to include in a project that was meant to be read by someone who doesn't know much about comics (but many of those sources were referenced in the project because I wrote summaries of some sources if I couldn't find one that did the job for me), inversely, the parts of my project that I wrote myself aren't in here because I really want to share the resources I found for whoever else might be curious. It's organized more or less chronologically, I'm putting links wherever I can, and I'll put an asterisks next to some of the resources that require some more background knowledge, also any sources written in the same color text (that's not the default) were used together to write a summary source. I hope someone at least finds this useful or interesting.

“The Evolution of Queer Representation in DC Comics” by Alex Jaffe   (yes I know this is from DC's website, but it's a good overview)

The Free Love Experiment that Created Wonder-Woman by Noah Berlatsky

The Caped Crusade: The Rise and Fall of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon (2016), “Panic and Aftermath (1948-1964)” (this whole book is very good)

The Comics Code of 1954

“Scholar Finds Flaws in Work by Archenemy of Comics” by Dave Itzkoff

Batman #181 (July, 1966) (everyone needs to read this a) because it's Poison Ivy's first comic and b) because Robin's horror at Batman kissing Poison Ivy (yes I know her kiss is poisonous) really gets rid of any heterosexuality they might have been trying to push)

“How Vertigo Changed Comics Forever” by Abraham Josephine Riesman

**“Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and 'Thingness' in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette's Swamp Thing” by Robin A. McDonald and Dan Vena

*“‘...And then what?’ Vertigo Comics’ Enigma” by Chloe Maveal

“Let’s Talk 90’s Vertigo, The Revolution it Started, and How Marvel Ruined it” by David Harth

**“‘One of the Things They Definitely Are is Queer’: an Interview with Rachel Pollack” by Alex Dueben

“DC Comics shuts down Vertigo imprint a year after relaunch” by Christie d’Zurilla

“Diversity is Part of Very Soul of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman” by Marc Burrows

“As Above, So Below: Actions and Reactions of the Sandman and Trans Representation” by Joanna Marsh

“Queer Superhero History: The First Trans Character in Comics” by Jessica Plummer

“Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean: how we made The Sandman” interview by Phil Hoad

“‘I can’t do superheroes, but I can do gods’: Neil Gaiman on comics, diversity and casting Death” interview by John Harris Dunning

“The Sandman: A Beginner's Guide” by Scott Meslow

DC Pride 2023, “A Tribute to Rachel Pollack”

"SuperGay: Depictions of Homosexuality in Mainstream Superhero Comics" by Kara Kvaran (2014) in Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment edited by Annessa Ann Babic 

The Flash (vol. 2) #53, August 1991: The Pied Piper comes out

“Death talks about Life” by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

DC Pride: Through the Ages, “Introduction” by Benjamin Le Clear

Comics Code History: The Seal of Approval

“A History of Queer Characters in DC Comics” by Les Fabian Brathwaite

“Catwoman comes out as bisexual” by Henry Hanks

“Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy: A History” by Brian Cronin

“The new Superman comes out as bisexual in an upcoming comic” by Scottie Andrew

“Wonder Woman is Getting the Queer Romance She Deserves in New DC Comic” by Mey Rude

“DC Announces ‘DC Pride’ Anthology Comic to Arrive June 8, and More!” DC Press Release

The DC Book of Pride

There is more, so check the reblogs (I'll also include the issues I used panels from in the reblogs)

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Rachel Pollack, who passed away last year, introduced DC’s first trans character Coagula during her run on Doom Patrol back in the 1990s. As a part of Pride Month, DC will release DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack, which will feature reprints of Doom Patrol #70, Coagula’s first appearance; Vertigo Visions: The Geek, the long out-of-print one-shot by Pollack and Mike Allred; and a new Coagula story by Joe Corallo and Rye Hickman.

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Comic reactions:

Batman Scooby Doo Mysteries: Cute little story. Also, get dunked on, Cluemaster. 

DC Pride A Celebration of Rachel Pollack: Welcome Back Kate. Good Celebration. 

Captain Marvel: That was a lot. I want to see where this goes before making a “proper judgment”, but still, I am enjoying this book. 

Ms Marvel Mutant Menace: That was cool, but not sure how to feel her mutant powers being the MCU version. Still, I do like the character development. I dislike how Medusa spoke of the X-men though.

Birds of Prey: That was cool. Really cements Barda and Cass as friends, those forged as weapons but found more.

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John Romita Sr and More

My guest this week is Dan Hort! What stores did Brett and Dan used to get their comics at? Is anime more popular than comic books? Why do people stop collecting comic books? Is the anime style easier for kids to draw? Is there money in collecting action figures and busts? What is the Galactus Tax on original art? Who were the big three in the early days of Marvel Comics? Did Stan Lee and Steve Ditko get along? Who is the greatest Spider-Man artist of all time? What's one way to put a value on original art? What was Steve Ditko really like? 

Reading list: Dragonball Z DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack Ultimate Spider-Man (new series) Star Trek Celebrations John Romita's The Amazing Spider-Man Artisan Edition

Watch list: Battle of the Planets Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Astro Boy My Neighbor Totoro Kiki's Delivery Service One Piece (live action) The Wind Rises The Boy and the Heron

Recorded 9-12-24 via Zencastr

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Preview: DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 preview. Rachel Pollack did the impossible: she raised the bar for surprise and strangeness in her beloved run following Grant Morrison's career-making Doom Patrol! #comics #comicbooks

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 - "Doom Patrol Block Party" (2024)

pin-up by Marie Llovet