#emilio pilliu

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Emilio Pilliu - Sweet Paprika

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This interaction between Logan & Raven during the recent Mystique & Destiny Wedding Special issue was a nice callback reference to one of my favorite X-Men storylines, Wolverine: Get Mystique, even referencing specific lines of dialogue like Raven previously telling Logan that “people like us don’t get to put down roots and play nice”:

It’s like I’ve always said, if Destiny is Mystique’s greatest lover, then Wolverine is her biggest rival…

From X-Men: The Wedding Special (2024) #1 — “Get Mystique… A Gift!” by Tate Brombal, Emilio Pilliu & Irma Kniivila, and Wolverine (2003) #65 — “Get Mystique, Part 4 of 4” by Jason Aaron & Ron Garney.

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Sweet Paprika: Open for Business #1 (Image Comics, November 2025) preview pages by Steve Orlando and Emilio Pilliu

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"DC Pride" Returns in 2025 with New Format

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)

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X-Men Wedding Special #1 Serves as a Great Wedding Story but Not a Strong Marvel Pride Issue

X-Men Wedding Special #1 Serves as a Great Wedding Story but Not a Strong Marvel Pride Issue #comics #comicbooks #xmen

Mystique and Destiny, one of the oldest gay couples in Marvel comics, decide to renew their vows in X-Men Wedding Special #1 by an ensemble of various creatives. Serving as this year’s Marvel’s Voices Pride, read about the wedding of the millennium with one of the comics’ most significant relationships, Betsy and Rachel, facing a dangerous threat by an old foe, a group of young mutants trying to…

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Mirka Andolfo Launches Queer 'Sweet Paprika' Spinoff 'Open For Business'

Image Comics and Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika is getting a queer spinoff, Open for Business, from Steve Orlando and Smilio Pilliu.

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Mirka Andolfo Launches Queer 'Sweet Paprika' Spinoff 'Open For Business'

Image Comics and Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika is getting a queer spinoff, Open for Business, from Steve Orlando and Smilio Pilliu.

[why-i-love-comics]

X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 - "Get Mystique… A Gift!" (2024)

written by Tate Brombal art by Emilio Pilliu & Irma Kniivila

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I’m a writer for DC PRIDE 2025!

Wildly honoured to be writing stories for MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO and CONNOR HAWKE’S GREEN ARROW!! Drawn by Derek Charm and Phillip Sevy. I cannot BELIEVE.

Out June 4, 2025

96 pages of Gay Drama and Laughs

Words by Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, and Josh Trujillo

Art by Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione, Skylar Patridge, Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, Phillip Sevy, and more

covers by Julia Reck, Kris Anka, and Jack Hughes

SEE YOU FOR PRIDE!!

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A preview of X-Men: The Wedding Special #1

X-MEN: THE WEDDING SPECIAL #1

WEDDING EXTRAVAGANZA! Mystique and Destiny are one of the most beloved — and longest running — gay couples in history. Somewhere in their 100+ years together, the pair married, but we’ve never seen the event on the page. This year MARVEL’S VOICES: PRIDE makes history with Marvel’s first woman-to-woman wedding in a story by superstar X-Men scribe Kieron Gillen! And with a couple as complex as these two, you know there’s a lot more to the story. We promise party crashing! Villainy! Romance! In the classic tradition of FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #3 and X-MEN #30, this anthology will be a must-read for every comics fan. Featuring the Marvel debuts of award-winning writers Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit, Machineries of Empire) and M. Louis (Agents of the Realm), and much more talent to be announced!

Written by: Kieron Gillen, Tate Brombal, Tini Howard, Wyatt Kennedy Art by: Emilio Pilliu, Jenn St. Onge, Phillip Sevy, Rachael Stott Cover by: Jan Bazaldua Page Count: 84 Pages Release Date: May 29, 2024

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DC Pride 2025 (one-shot) by Vita Ayala, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, Josh Trujillo, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Skylar Partridge, Max Sarin, A. L. Kaplan, Derek Charm, Emilio Pilliu and more. Cover by Kris Anka. Variant covers by (2) Julia Reck and (3) Jack Hughes. Out in June.

"When a 100-year-old queer speakeasy-turned-bar-turned-restaurant-and-community-space in Gotham announces that it will soon be closing its doors, generations of patrons come to pay their respects—including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. After all, this is the place where he and his first love, Johnny Ladd, long ago carved their names into the basement wall before it all went to hell… and a love lost is never a love forgotten. But they weren’t the only ones to put their names in the wall over the years, and suddenly queer heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU—the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them—find them-selves spirited away to a strange alternate dimension that seems to provide everything they could possibly want… but at what cost? In this single, oversized story of interweaving narratives, the vanished will need to come together and look into the very depths of the Starheart itself if they hope to escape that which ensnares them in this triumphant and timely story of community amid chaos!"

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From X-Men: The Wedding Special Vol. 2 #001

“Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, by Kieron Gillen (W), Rachael Stott and Michael Bartolo (A)

“Wedding Gatecrashers”, by Tini Howard (W), Phillip Sevy and KJ Díaz (A)

“Get Mystique... a Gift!”, by Tate Brombal (W), Emilio Pilliu and Irma Kniivila (A)

“Épée Is Truth”, by Yoon Ha Lee (W) and Stephen Byrne (A)

“The Thief’s Surprise”, by Wyatt Kennedy (W), Jenn St-Onge and Brittany Peer (A)

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Letterless preview pages for Marvel Voices: Pride a.k.a. X-Men: The Wedding Special have been posted.

Main Wedding Story by Kieron Gillen, art by Rachael Stott

Betsy Braddock/Rachel Summers story by Tini Howard, art by Phillip Sevy

Wolverine + crew story by Tate Brombal, art by Emilio Pilliu

Rogue/Gambit story by Wyatt Kennedy, art by Jenn St. Onge

Emma Frost Pre-marriage counseling story by Yoon Ha Lee, art by Stephen Byrne

source here

Personal thoughts:

I gotta say, I'm still feeling incredibly ambivalent about this book.

I mean, a Mystique/Destiny wedding is great! Ya love to see it and its long overdue, but I think this would've been better served as a one-shot alongside the main pride story this rather, rather than in place of it.

Most of these stories sound really fun, like for example: a Rogue/Gambit side story involving a wedding band mishap! That sounds hilarious!

But, for a Pride-centric issue, its really lacking in the Pride department. No one outside of the x-books this year, and even the x-couples are lacking!

I mean, to name a few: Northstar and Kyle, Rictor and Shatterstar, Iceman and whoever he's dating right now (lol), Cerebella and Escapade, Akihiro and Aurora (he's still bi, straight-passing relationship or not), the list goes on!

I don't know, I'm just frustrated. The stories themselves seem fine, its just the branding/packaging that's rubbing me the wrong way, if that makes sense.

Except the Wolverine story. We literally have a confirmed/canon queer member of the snikt fam (who, at bare minimum, has had a flirtation with Mystique as well), and he's still ded :(

Like, if they wanted a Wolverine-centric story, why not have Gabby finally explore her sapphic feelings for that girl on the bus? Let her have a little heart-to-heart with Akihiro, drag Logan to a Pride parade (then, he accidently gets roped into a side quest involving a group of short trans-mascs, ending with Logan buying them a round of beers). My point is, there are ways to add your money-maker character into stories while still respecting your target audience.

I don't know. My feelings are complicated.

[smashpages]

Steve Orlando + Emilio Pilliu helm the ‘Sweet Paprika’ spinoff ‘Open for Business’

The five-issue miniseries kicks off in November.

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THE WEDDING OF MYSTIQUE AND DESTINY 💍

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This Pride Month, join the X-Men as they come together to honor one of the most beloved and longest-lasting queer couples in comic book history—Mystique and Destiny!

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From the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to the Quiet Council, Mystique and Destiny have been steering the fate of mutantkind for decades.

The Krakoan Age saw the long-awaited resurrection of Destiny, and now, as the pair renew their vows, their love has never been more prominent.

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In the tradition of classic Marvel wedding issues like 'Fantastic Four Annual' #3 and 'X-Men' #30, 'X-Men: The Wedding Special' #1 will feature multiple stories all centered around a single night, including:

💌 Get a glimpse at Mystique and Destiny's original and never-before-told wedding and discover the pair’s secret motivations for hosting the event.

💌 Just about everyone in the Marvel Universe is invited to the vow renewal…except for Saturnyne. And she’s not happy. But why is she taking it out on Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers?

💌 Wolverine has a long—and bloody—history with Mystique, and tasks Anole, Pixie, Indra, and Bling! with finding her the perfect gift.

💌 It’s her mothers’ big day, and Rogue has entrusted their favorite son-in-law with their wedding bands. But can Gambit stay out of trouble long enough to deliver them?

💌 Mystique and Destiny receive some pre-marriage psychic counseling courtesy of Emma Frost! See how the inspiring love of two former villains holds up against a telepathic onslaught of hard truths.

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🖊 Writers: Kieron Gillen, Tini Howard, Yoon Ha Lee, Tate Brombal, and Wyatt Kennedy

✏️ Pencilers: Rachael Stott, Phil Sevy, Stephen Byrne, Emilio Pilliu, and Jenn St. Onge

�� Cover Artist: Jan Bazaldua

🎨 Variant Cover Artists: Russel Dauterman, Jessica Fong, and Luciano Vecchio

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Get your first look at a Marvel Wedding centuries in the making!

Get your first look at a Marvel Wedding centuries in the making! #comics #comicbooks

Marvel’s merry mutants take center stage in this year’s Marvel’s Voices: Pride one-shot! Titled X-Men: The Wedding Special #1, this annual anthology celebrates Pride Month with stories crafted by incredible LGBTQIA+ talent and hits stands on May 29. Fans can preview the drama, action, and romance that awaits in a special preview of each of the five stories! Join the X-Men as they come together…