Dreamer and Galaxy have woken up from their 4-issue mini-series, Dream Girls: A DC Pride Event, and their futures look brighter than ever. Jadzia Axelrod and Nicole Maines are powerhouse writers providing us with much-needed complexity, grit, and fully developed trans representation that has not always been fully present when depicting trans superheroes. Not only do Maines and Axelrod get to scribe very direct and honest phrases in one of the big two, like “felt like I was the only trans lesbian these cape types have met” and “the unspeakable thing between my legs,” but they continue to breathe beautiful life into these original creations.
This mini directly follows The Justice League Intergalactic Special, which succeeded The Sinister Six 2025 mini, which succeeded Suicide Squad: The Dream Team, which directly followed Absolute Power, and the list goes on. However, I believe this series encapsulates a mostly contained plot and resolution, which is greatly amplified if you’ve read the previous books, but it also contains big feelings and themes that can be relatable without prior reading. Let me provide a small amount of context, though, before jumping into my spoiler reviews.
Justice League Intergalactic Special sees Galaxy joining a deep-space mission to save Dreamer’s home planet of Naltor. This team is assembled of Galaxy, Argus, Star Sapphire, Green Arrow, Adam Strange, and Dreamer (secretly, stowed away). While successful in assisting the planet, Galaxy’s control of energy accidentally hurt the Green Lantern cavalry, who were also there to help. After both Galaxy and Dreamer are knocked out and find themselves in Themyscria, assuming the roles of Wonder Woman and another Amazonian, and that leads us right into the pages of this DC Pride Special. The main series (not including the backup stories) splits into two viewpoints and trajectories. Moving forward, we are in spoiler territory.
While we start with both protagonists jumping from dream state to dream state, only one of them is naturally going to be a bit more focused on the dream narrative, which, of course, is Dreamer. These altered dreams provide a very cool and fun homage to long-time DC fans of both the comics and animation. We get swapped versions of Batman: The Animated Series, Wonder Woman, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Zatanna, Constantine, Jonah Hex, and others.
While Dreamer is manipulating this dream reality herself, we discover that Silver Age villain Key has devised a devious plan to wed Dreamer within her Dreams and use her abilities to access the Akashic Records and therefore gain an ultimate and unstoppable power. In these dreams, Galaxy is able to see through the facade and the cracks faster, as Dreamer falls further and further into this illusion of portraying the perfect superheroine and accepting being a hero from both the public and herself. A place where she doesn’t have to face her past trauma and agony. She’s been through so much as not only a superhero, but an alien to this planet, and a trans woman. Put into positions of being manipulated and weaponized, which only ostracized her even more from society, her loved ones, and her contemporaries.
This series is somehow brisk, dialogue-heavy in the debates, action-packed, while also being meditative, reflective, and cold, representing how alone and lost these two women feel in their current predicament. At a point in which the League is opening its membership to pretty much anyone, including villains, why is it that Galaxy and Dreamer’s place on the League is making them such heated rivals to league members like Guy Gardner?
They have been coerced into making certain stances in the past, but have they not proved themselves yet? At least enough as the others like them who have made similar choices and mistakes, or who have had similar outbursts or powers? This unsureness and interrogation of the league is used to represent another level of this deep-rooted bigotry that queer and trans people push and fight against every day. The extra miles we will go to be at the same table as everyone else and to be heard as equally as them.
One could assume the writing passes between both writers whenever the perspective changes between the main characters, and I think we have a very smooth, seamless back-and-forth here. We see Galaxy struggling with imposter syndrome and the confidence to have her voice heard and a place at the table. She ultimately, in the end, but also all along, had the answers and the strength needed. Galaxy has saved her loved ones multiple times and has saved the entire planet once as just a teenager (yet no one remembers). Galaxy is ready to be here and might need to be a bit louder to make sure everyone is on the same page about that. What this nightmare wedding from hell, surrounded by bureaucratic infighting, needed was platonic love and found family within the Queer community.
Absolute Spoiler***
Our 4-part series comes to an end with Galaxy going back into Dreamer’s dream and taking everything she’s learned and had with her all along, and the love she has from Kat, Argus, Nia, and the others, and using it to break Dreamer free of The Keys’ influence. While he might think he’s had the upper hand, it’s only been because of Dreamer’s susceptibility due to her depression and trauma. However, we queers are hard to keep down, and the dream state is her home turf. Needless to say, this series ends with our protagonists at much better spots than where they began, and spots that I believe make the most sense. Galaxy will continue to operate within the JL while Dreamer takes some time away to work on herself and join the League when she’s ready… or will she?
Well, considering how late I am to this now-retrospective review, we know, thanks to SDCC 2026, to expect Dreamer in Justice League Unlimited issues #24 and #25, written by Maines and Mark Waid, with art by Dan Mora. This two-issue arc will show that Dreamer can’t escape the hero life, as the League will need to enlist her help in finally making sense of all those visions we saw back in 2025 D.C. K.O.’s event. Those issues will start arriving in late October everywhere comics are sold. Keep an eye out with your local comic shops for their FOC so you can get your pre-order in. Pride may be over, but Queer art and storytelling never are.
Thank you, DC, for centering your Pride series on these two beautiful, revolutionary, alien-while-very-human characters. As an extra bonus, each issue of the Pride event series does contain a backup story focusing on other LGBTQIA+ DC characters.