Dark Horse Comics - LGBTQ+ Pride Reading Guide 2025

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month this June, Dark Horse Comics presents an updated reading guide highlighting comics that explore LGBTQ+ stories, themes, and characters.

Hear more from staff and creators themselves and more in this shortlist of recent comics, and find many additional recommended reads listed below.

There are many more titles from Dark Horse featuring LGBTQ+ themes and creators that readers can enjoy all year round.

Check out more Pride Reading Guides: 2019-20, 2021, 2022, 2024

The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night #1

Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion present The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night, a new story arc in the hit LGBTQ+ horror-hero coming-of-age series from James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, Isaac Goodhart, Miquel Muerto, Aditya Bidikar, and more. More details here.

Meet teenage mad scientist Christopher Chaos. His brilliant mind works in ways that defy logic and enable him to do things that push him beyond his peers--but these abilities also lead others to fear him. One day, something cracks. When the cute boy at high school turns out to be a deadly creature, Christopher finds himself pitted in a world of monsters, heroes, and a cult of hunters out to kill them all.

"The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos is a twisted love letter to horror, high school genre stories, and to anyone who's ever felt like an outsider," said Brombal. "We are crafting a monstrous universe of epic proportions, and I cannot wait for the world to witness the mad science that James, Isaac, Miquel, Aditya, Nick, and I have been cooking up for you. This is the comic I've always dreamed of writing."




Renegade Royale

Dark Horse Books presents Renegade Royale, the follow-up to Ben Kahn, Rachel Silverstein, and Sam Back’s GLAAD Media Award-nominated queer VR gaming graphic novel, Renegade Rule. 

Since their defeat at the VR gaming championship for Renegade Rule, the team members of the Manhattan Mist haven't lost an ounce of momentum. So when a new brawl mode is introduced to the game—along with a sponsored inaugural competition—they're in it to win it (again)! But in this tournament, only one player can be crowned champion. Get ready for a burgeoning romance between two team members, all-new character classes, and new rivals who will push Tonya, Sasha, Amanda and Jessie to their very limits.

"We're so thrilled to return to the world and friendships of Renegade Rule," said Kahn and Silverstein. "We had so much more story to tell with these characters, and we can't wait to share more queer romance and VR action with readers."








Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III--The Wedding Spectacular

Late last year, the resistance forces gathered on Eriadu to witness Lula Talisola and Zeen Mrala, the young freedom fighters championing the fight against the Nihil, join hands in marriage. Friends and family throughout the galaxy joined in on the celebration of light, life and love. 

Writer and one of the original architects of the Star Wars: The High Republic initiative Daniel José Older was joined by artists Harvey Tolibao, Toni Bruno, Nick Brokenshire, and more! They, along with colorist Michael Atiyeh, and lettering studio Comicraft, put on a celebration that guests from across the galaxy had been waiting for. 

An iconic High Republic Adventures moment years in the making—you don't want to miss! More details









Sparks Volume 2: Royalty

The second volume of Revel Guts hit webcomic, Sparks, now in print for the first time! is a coming-of-age queer romance that can't be missed by fans of LGBTQ+ fantasy and adventure.

In a world rising from the ashes of destruction, Human society thrives only through their complex alliance with the magical Satyr. After a shocking graduation day full of surprises, Philo and Atlas arrive at the palace to begin their new lives. Philo is quickly taken under the wing of the Arch Mage's flirtatious younger brother, Pallas, and is shown the ropes of daily royal life. Meanwhile Atlas begins his brutal apprenticeship and uncovers some unsettling truths about his future. All is not what it seems as shadowy figures continue to pull the strings behind the scenes

Sparks Volume 2: Royalty will be available in bookstores and comic shops on July 15, 2025.







Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 3

Tom Siddell's Ruben Award-winning sci-fi/fantasy webcomic continues to be presented in print with Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 3, arriving November 2025. 

As some of the chapters in Annie and Kat’s lives come to a close, unexpected paths forward are revealed. In the wake of a shocking announcement, Annie must navigate the ins and outs of her unexpected new role as the forest medium and all the dangers and mysteries that entails: countless forest denizens that need help, moss ogres and other monsters, and Ysengrin's hot-headedness. 

The series features queer love of all kinds, including lifelong friends-to-lovers, bashful and burgeoning young love, and the unexpected bonds between two non-humans.

"As a queer person who consumes a lot of media, it's always disappointing when LGBTQ+ themes end up being ham-fisted tropes that don’t serve the story or characters. This has never been the case with Gunnerkrigg Court. The relationships are shown in a believable, relatable way, naturally woven into the story without fuss. In the upcoming volume 3 we are audience to the beginnings of a sapphic relationship. This plot line gracefully examines themes of gender identity, sense of self, and the fear of change in your support system after coming out in a direct, yet comforting way," says Dark Horse Edtior Rachel Roberts. "In the words of beloved Reynardine, "As a creature in this world, you will face many hardships in your life. Who you love should not be one of them."

Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 3 will be available in bookstores and comic shops on November 11 and 12, 2025.

Ripperland

Gore spatters and unlikely romance blossoms in a near future revenge thriller Ripperland! The tale is co-written by multi-award nominated creators Steve Orlando and John Harris Dunning, with art and cover art by Alessandro Oliveri, colors by Francesca Vivaldi, and letters by Fabio Amelia.

The year is 2188, and Jack the Ripper has returned to London. For the last century, a shattered post-Brexit England has operated as a massive Victorian theme park in exchange for American military and financial protection. But when an American mogul's grandson is killed in the heart of London, the delicate status quo is threatened. Is the killer a brilliant maniac? Americans taking advantage of their superior technology? Or the English Underground Resistance, wishing to throw off the yoke of American oppression and rejoin the modern world?

American Special Agent Jesse Holden and local British Police Detective Edwin Fogg must overcome their clashing ideologies in order to find the truth in the foggy streets of 22nd-century London.

The Ripperland paperback collection is available for pre-order now, arriving in bookstores on September 30, 2025 and comic shops on October 1, 2025.



Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal

Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was... Carmilla.

Amy Chu and Soo Lee continue their award-winning tale, begun in Volume 1, Carmilla: The First Vampire, available now from Berger Books and Dark Horse.

The final chapter of this Bram Stoker Award-winning graphic novel reimagination of Sheridan LeFanu's classic Carmilla will be available later this year!

Athena's daughter Ella journeys to Oxford, England where a mysterious university benefactor hires her for what seems like a simple research position, but leads her straight into the heart of danger...and the Lo family back into the complicated web of Carmilla herself. As deaths begin to pile up on campus, Ella becomes entangled with a secret supernatural society of hard partying immortals. And just as Athena once did, Ella is about to discover some family secrets of her own

Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal is available for pre-order now, arriving October 7 and 18, 2025 at bookstores and comic shops.

"A sophisticated and modern reimagination of one of the great classics of the horror genre, Chu and Lee have crafted a Vampire story you do not want to miss."–James Tynion IV (Something Is Killing The Children, The Department of Truth)

ElfQuest: The Original Quest

Fans of the beloved fantasy series ElfQuest from celebrated creators Wendy and Richard Pini can now complete the four-volume series of ElfQuest: The Original Quest, as Dark Horse brings the entire original masterpiece to print in a gorgeous full-color set for the first time! 

“The Original Quest” invites new readers and longtime fans to dive into this legendary series where it first began with a brand-new hardcover volume set!

“We envy everyone who is discovering—or rediscovering—ElfQuest in this gorgeous new full-color Dark Horse incarnation for the first time. ElfQuest is classic yet refreshingly surprising in the way it tosses traditional fantasy clichés out on their pointed ears. The quest of the title—a search for identity, for home, for family—though decades in the telling—is today more contemporary, relevant...and needed...than ever. From forest to mountain, from desert to frozen waste, you’re in for one hell of a howling good thrill-ride.”

ElfQuest: The Original Quest: Book 1--Fire and Flight and ElfQuest: The Original Quest: Book 2--The Forbidden Grove are now available, with ElfQuest: The Original Quest: Book 3--Wolf Blood Caged set to release in August, and ElfQuest: The Original Quest: Book: 4: The First War in November.

Plus, don't miss your chance to pre-order ElfQuest: The Final Quest, collecting the entire Final Quest in full color into a single hardcover complete edition for the first time, arriving in February 2026.