Milestone’s Return is Back on Track

It’s time to get cautiously excited. It looks like Milestone is officially on its way back after a few hiccups over the past few years. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a quick little history lesson to catch you up. Milestone was founded in 1993 by the late Dwayne McDuffie, along with Denys Cowan, Derek T. Dingle, and Michael Davis. The subsidiary of DC Comics’ main goal was promoting diversity on the comic book page as well as behind the scenes, creating a space within a white male-dominated industry that forced everyone to see that diversity was possible. It was wildly influential. Characters like Static, Rocket, Icon, and Hardware entered comic book fans’ collective consciousness soon after.

There was an announcement to revive Milestone a few years back, but it was halted by a lawsuit filed by co-founder Dwayne McDuffie’s widow Charlotte Fullerton over unpaid royalties to his estate. It seems like all of that has now been settled, and everyone is back in good graces. In an exclusive interview with CBR, Denys Cowan, Milestone co-founder and co-creator of Static dropped some exciting news about Milestone’s return.

Not everything that was printed was true, but there was still a situation. Well, that situation has been resolved to all parties’ satisfaction. So we’re all happy and the person that had an issue with us is happy. We’re all together; we’re all friends; we’re all good. And DC and Milestone were going forward with their plans after a very long del…