Quote Originally Posted by Vordan View Post
Feels like a stretch, especially considering Bendis never wanted to put Static on LoSH. Also we’re still not sure if the black guy is the exact same Lightning Lad, there’s a white Lightning Lad showing up in Superman soon after all.
It might be. But this also might have been his opportunity to write a black teenager with electric powers and he took the ideas he had for Static and applied them here. It might not be the case at all, but it just caught my eye.