So I was at school minding my own business when all of a sudden Static Shick crossed my mind. This delightful thought expanded into a lot of other characters from Static's world like Icon and Rocket, Hardware and the Blood Syndicate. And as always, whenever I think of these heroes from Milestone Media I get incredibly amped to do what I love.And that's to write about super heroes.
The culturally diverse heroes in Dakota inspire me to write stories that share experiences, advise lives, connect with and unlock heroism in readers young and old.
Its good to see the front man for Milestone, Static dotted throught different DC titles and specials, and now he's found a new home at long last with the Teen Titans. Right now I am following him and the team in Teen Titans#79 onward; and as the subtitle reads, "Welcome home Static." Within these pages Static and Co. fight to cure the people of his city from a strange virus, plus he tangles with his old foe, Holocaust. I can't wait to see what happends in May!
I also have my eye on The Brave and the Bold: Milestone which collects several issues of BatB comics that came out last year featuring Static, Xombi and Hardware teaming up with DC characters like the Specter, Blue Beetle and Black Lightning. This trade paperback was on the shelf at Borders and I flipped out but I'm just waiting for the right time to get it. I didn't read Xombi in Milestone but as time has passed and I've hunted down these classic books... everything they published looks good to me; its like a piece of history, probably cuz it is right lol?
So then having said that, I think I might track down Wise Son's book, Wise Son:The White Wolf. This book may be an origin to the character who would later lead the Blood Syndicate on Paris Island. And all four issues are collected in trade paperback =] .
Next I want to see if I can find either single issues or preferably a tpb of Worlds Collide which is a crossover between Superman characters and milestone characters. Its a 14pt story that was later slightly modified after Final Crisis last year which explains how these beloved Dakota heroes ae back with us today. I think I have like one issue of WC so I'm going to look for that too.
So yeah long story short cuz I could def draw this out longer... i get good feelings when I recall Milestone or one of their books. In fact when I would find their stuff I'd read everything, even the mailbox at the end of the book with readers' comments; i NEVER read those! But I just had to know what was in the midsn of the readers and the writers and see what kind of relationship they had back then. The things I read about then give me fuel for tomorrow's stories. And I keep finding more and more, its like an Easter Egg hunt! I just learned that the Shadow Cabinet has been seen in the pages of Justice League of Amercia at least since '08 and big things are on the horizon.
And last but not least I am reminded of Milestone Forever. This is a 2issue miniseries closing the stories of "old" Dakota and openning up a new chapter for the city and its protectors in the DC comics. It came out in February and should be out in tpb by now, in fact a friend of mine mentioned he saw it at the comic book store and thought of me. So I needs to get my hands on that sappy-asap ^_^
Man I don't think I really typed that much, honesly i was a little distracted by Idol Gives Back lol... so much more I wanted to write about Milestone. But next time. This was more of a shoping list it seems, so, a lot of Milestone books to find and but its worth the time... maybe they'll just publish all of the original titles in trades up till they ended, cuz I already have like the first 8 issues of Icon in trade and the same with Static... i considered getting the new trade that's like a deluz cuz its got the collected 4 issue mini Trial by Fire and the first several issues of Static in one... and there I go again hahaha ok I'm out of here.
More comic talk later and definitely more Milestone coming our way!
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