Milestone 2.0 is happening and i am so excited. Looks like i know where my money is going.
I still remember when the original Milestone line went away.
This was a couple of months before I went on the Internet and I had no warning. So for a while, I just figured the books had gotten harder to find in Germany. I remember going to the UK for a concert event and looking up half a dozen comic book stores in London to find Static, Icon and Hardware. It had been hard enough doing without Blood Syndicate ... But to have it all go away without fanfare was really depressing. Those were my favorite comic books at the time.
I would LOVE to know what the official deal is with DC and the Milestone properties. In an era where comic book companies are scrambling to find marketable minority superheroes DC has totally shelved Static one of the most popular black superheroes of all time. They have a marketable character who may not be able to sustain his own book (very few characters without Bat, Super, X, or Lantern in their title can) but still has a large following and would work well in a team book but yet they refuse to use him. There has to be some legal issue with Milestone that they refuse to talk about. There's really no other explaination.
Instead of changing the ethnicities of existing characters how about using the already great characters you have.
So I guess everybody agrees that Static is the most popular black character in DC comics since nobody commented about it.
The original plan or plans was to have all those books end. Static actually ended 2 issues earlier and part of that cliffhanger was used to make the Static Shock episode Jimmy. Milestone books were like the Vertigo books-with a beginning, middle and end.
Also at the time MARVEL and Milestone were in talks of moving Static and friends over there. However Marvel's bankruptcy issues axed that.
Also there were talks of toys WAY back in 1994 and sketches of them including Kobalt were sold on Ebay.
An Icon prototype figure actually did make it to tv on a Disney (now Disney/Marvel) network ABC. AN unsold pilot about a black kid thinking he was going to die and pretty showed him trying to get the Icon figure back from either a dog or bully.
The Last Days of Earnest Green-I think that was the name-I have to dig around my old tv guide clippings. It also aired with what I would call the black version of Touched By An Angel/Beetlejuice/Teen Angel that starred a pre Martin-Gina Campbell and post Cosby Show Desmond Richmond.
He might not be number 1 but you have a character that can be your Ms Marvel and that bridge to get new readers.So I guess everybody agrees that Static is the most popular black character in DC comics since nobody commented about it.
well on the one hand, you'd get increased sales (through both johns' own following, pre-exisiting fans, people brought in etc), increased spotlight in the dcu, team-ups, CN and CW getting off their asses on the adaptation front etc
on the other hand; more grimderp, more dismemberment, more angst. constant crisis' and crossovers; hollowed out characterization (even hal and barry fans have noted that problem) and of course, the possibility that the book would become more of a showcase for whichever of static's villains catches the attention of johns' "shiny shiny" habit
I dunno, as much as i love static i think the most popular black character is either Cyborg or John Stewert
Milestone 2.0 is happening and i am so excited. Looks like i know where my money is going.
U r both ryt...but if "Static" AND "Static Shock" can BOTH b his title/s. We/SZ hv nvr undrstud y many kp getting their nikers(hehehe) in a twist ovr dat.
QUESTION 4 D THRD:
If Static did get anothr anim8d series, wat title/name wud u gv it?
U mean lyk hw Geoff startd Vibe's solo & den quickly dumpd & 4got abt d xcter?
Wasnt Vibe supposed 2 b in JL United?
We/SZ wudnt mind Geoff doing a Static solo but he has 2 b involved 4 d long-haul & actively support d xcter/Static shwing up in othr titles & mk him/Static b part of d team-buk @ d same tym as Static's solo.
Hehehe...true.
But perhps it was b4 of d bad art.
DC does nt own Static or any of d Milestone properties but its Milestone runners/owners(esp Davis) r soooo stuck-up on DC instead othr trying their properties with othr publishrs.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!They clearly don't want him and Static deserves better.
Gd idea! Cosignd!
D buk myt suffer 2 kp sales numbrs if d buk is 2 self-containd, Static fans also want 2 c Static interacting with several DC xcters as much as sum DC fans also want 2 c their DC xcters interacting with Static.He would be kept self-contained, people would get their Static fix, job done.
Posters hv bn bangin' dat drum 4 ages & Milestone fellas dont gv-a-damn.That or Milestone could leave DC...
Seems lyk it.but that won't happen any time soon...
We/SZ wudnt mind grim-n-dark just as long as Static still gets 2 b funny, smart & kickin serious @$$.
OH...& it shud b used as an opportunity 2 intro & expand d Milestone xcters.
Well dats true...if nt 4 d JL/JLU toons den d GL movie really helpd prop-up Stewart during d prodctn of d movie & whn it faild horribly many were saying it wud hv bn betta if John playd GL & all d publicity dat came with it.
Very well said, agrd & cosignd!
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowand...s-in-the-comic
Or Static could just become wallpaper like John Stewart and Jakeem Thunder.