‘Static #1: Season One’ Review

Writer: Vita Ayala / Artists: ChrisCross and Nikolas Draper-Ivey / DC Comics Static is back! And so is the entire Milestone universe! It took a while, with some bumps on the road, but we finally here and I couldn’t be happier.  Simply put, I wouldn’t be where I am as a writer if it wasn’t for Static and Milestone. From an early age, it was so important to see myself and others like me represented on such an elevated level. We’d had Black superheroes before, but they never got the spotlight they deserved, or the agency we all craved. And to be honest, things still aren’t perfect in terms of representation in comics. Milestone should have never left, and these characters shouldn’t have been collecting dust for as long as they did.  But that’s old news now. We now live in a world where we get a view into this universe every month, as Bast intended it. Static #1 was absolutely fantastic. To stay on brand, it really puts a shock to your system. I’ll be honest, I felt some type of way about rebooting the universe. Not that I didn’t want to see more Static and Milestone, but I wanted stories to continue rather than start over. But I’m happy to say now that any skepticism I had has been completely zapped away by this stellar debut. 

And honestly, it’s necessary. As a whole, Milestone had been gone for over twenty years. It needed to be updated to catch up to the world that moved on without it. The core of what made it special is still there, but its foundation is so much…