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Image Comics Releases Special Pride Month Covers For "Walking Dead," "Bitch Planet," More

And they're badass.

Image Comics is getting a head start on Pride with a line of variant covers for June that celebrate the LGBT community.

All proceeds from the alternate versions benefit HRC.

“It’s never been a secret that Image Comics is supportive of creative freedom, but it’s important that we also make it clear that we stand for inclusivity, diversity, and equality, now more than ever,” said publisher Eric Stephenson. “We hope these variants will serve as a positive display of that ongoing commitment.”

The Walking Dead/Image Comics

The Walking Dead/Image Comics

While the covers definitely incorporate queer symbols and imagery, they’re not exactly family-friendly: Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, for example, shows gay character Jesus impaling a zombie on a Pride flag as he tears the creature in half. (It's drawn by out artist Sina Grace with colors by trans colorist Tamra Bonvillain.)

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And Donny Cates’s Redneck depicts a vampire giving the reader the finger in a t-shirt that reads “I’m here, I’m queer, I’m fucking immortal.” (We kind of hope this winds up as a t-shirt.)

Eleven variant covers will be released in all. Check out the full schedule below.

Available in stores on Wednesday, June 7

* THE WALKING DEAD #168 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, cover art by Sina Grace, cover colors by Tamra Bonvillain

* THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA #1 by Howard Chaykin, cover by Chaykin (Diamond Code MAR178603)

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Available in stores on Wednesday, June 14

* BITCH PLANET: TRIPLE FEATURE #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro, cover by De Landro

* ROSE #3 by Meredith Finch and Ig Guara, cover by Guara

Available in stores on Wednesday, June 21

* CROSSWIND #1 by Gail Simone and Cat Staggs, cover by Staggs

* GRRL SCOUTS: MAGIC SOCKS #4 by Jim Mahfood, cover by Mahfood

* THE OLD GUARD #5 by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez, cover by Fernandez

Available in stores on Wednesday, June 28

* BLACK MAGICK #6 by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott, cover by Scott

* DEADLY CLASS #29 by Rick Remender and Wes Craig, cover by Craig

* SHUTTER #29 by Joe Keatinge and Leila del Duca, cover by del Duca

* REDNECK #3 by Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren, cover by Ed Luce

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