Prove to DC Comics they should publish more Milestone

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Written By Chris Well

“STATIC is a mostly-untapped BILLION DOLLAR FRANCHISE.”

New History comic book one-shot promises to bring Static, Hardware, Icon, and Rocket back into the DC universe.

So, comics fans, DC Comics once again has some good news, and some bad news. The bad news: DC is hitting the restart button. (Again.)  

The good news: They may finally be embracing the Milestone Comics brand as part of the family. The new 40-page one-shot New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident #1 shares “an untold moment in DC history, where a murder leads to an all-out war between the heroes of Dakota City and the U.S. government!”

Now it’s up to Milestone heroes like Rocket and Static to save the day—but as “heroes fall in the past, the stage is set for their return in the present…”

One of the book’s writers, Joseph Illidge, talks on Instagram about the importance of the new project.

The Dakota Incident 100K Challenge is to sell 100,000 copies of New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident to prove to DC Comics they should publish a Static ongoing comic book.

Find The Dakota Incident online (and help prove to DC Comics we want more Milestone)

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“It’s very interesting what we’re going to be doing with New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident,” Illidge told AIPT Comics. “You’re seeing the birth of one universe within a well-established universe and that confluence and collision.”

For those comics fans catching up: The Milestone Comics line was founded back in the 1990s by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Derek T. Dingle, Michael Davis, and Christopher Priest—five African-American creatives aiming to make comic books be more diversified. Milestone’s new characters included Static, Hardware, Icon, and Blood Syndicate. Their hero Static even got on TV in the Static Shock animated series.  

Illidge, who co-wrote The Dakota Incident, has worked on lots of other comics stuff—like Batman comics—plus done work for DC Comics, Image Comics, Todd McFarlane Productions, and more.

But he got his start back in the day at Milestone.

“There wasn’t one [company] like Milestone before, and there hasn’t been one like Milestone since,” Illidge told AIPT. “Hardware #1… I consider that one of the best number ones of a superhero comic ever in the North American space. It came out in 1993. We’re sitting here 33 years later, and it still slaps the same way.”

Find the whole interview here:

A Milestone of modern comics magic: Joseph Illidge dives deep into ‘The Dakota Incident’ (AIPT)

Also worth checking out: 

Rich Talks Milestone | Real Talk with Rich | Black Comic Lords 

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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