Static #2: Season One Review

Writer: Vita Ayala / Artists: ChrisCross and Nikolas Draper-Ivey / DC Comics Static #2 provides some breathing room for characters and audience alike after a debut issue filled to the brim with action.  But don’t worry, we still got lots of action. In fact, the issue opens up during the aftermath of Hot Streak setting Virgil’s house on fire. The whole neighborhood is outside listening to a wannabe Black white boy screaming obscenities, and all eyes are on Virgil. He saves his house, then gets in a quick rematch with Hot Streak. All is good.  Except now his family and all his neighbors know that he’s a Bang Baby. I like secret identities as much as the next guy, but sometimes, maybe all the time, they are an unnecessary impediment for our heroes. There are pros and cons to being private or being out in the open. But what I really like about Static is that while he isn’t telling everyone that he meets, he also isn’t breaking his back trying to hide it. He’s somewhere in the middle.  It does cause some problems for him, though. It creates a rift within his family. His parents don’t agree with each other on how to handle this new development, and his friend from school pressures Virgil to tell everyone who he is after his initial fight with Hot Streak in the Milestone #0 issue. 

Everyone has an opinion on what Virgil should do but no one is considering what Virgil wants. Ayala really sits in this and allows Virgil to grapple with the severity of his powers …