Perhaps I say the same thing every time I read a DC Pride collection, but what impresses me most of all is how tied to continuity at least some of these stories are. It would be too easy for DC to remand the stories in DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches to being “just so” stories, as easy to take or leave as the latest DC holiday special, but instead one or two fit or conceivably fit into the DCU’s day to day. When the whole point here is acceptance and belonging, that’s not a small thing.

The contrary voice says, “But it’s not as though what you have here is the major part of a crossover,” and that’s true, but then again, there are three Titans: Beast World tie-in stories included here. As I’ve mentioned before, I adore that Circuit Breaker is a character with tight story-to-story continuity living from anthology to anthology. The fact that that’s been mainly in DC Pride volumes but isn’t limited to DC Pride volumes also says a lot for the admirable ways DC has positioned their Pride books.