What? You're mentioning runs which began more than a decade ago and ended before the New 52 began. Like, are you talking about the 1993 Static series? The New 52 didn't destroy these titles to make way for inferior versions of them, as far as I can tell, Static and Firestorm hadn't been published in years at this point and the New 52 provided an opportunity to pick these titles back up again. Even if the New 52 hadn't rebooted these characters though and they had retained their previous continuity, that doesn't mean they were going to be great stories.