Get to know Milestone Comics in new editions with Static, Hardware, Icon, more
“There wasn’t a company like Milestone before, and there hasn’t been one like Milestone since.”
Classic Milestone superheroes are available again in new omnibus collections—as well as a brand-new comic book.
Milestone Media—which gave us Milestone Comics and inspired the Static Shock cartoon show—was launched in 1993. The company was started by a team of African-American creatives, including comic book veterans like Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Derek T. Dingle, Michael Davis, and Christopher Priest.
The Milestone founders wanted to address how minorities were underrepresented in American comics. As part of their mission, they launched new characters like Static, Hardware, and Icon.
“After all this time, there still aren’t enough Black superheroes,” Entertainment Weekly reported. “Milestone Media’s four-year run in the ’90s remains the benchmark for original Black crimefighters whose identities and backgrounds were central to their power, not coincidental.” [Source: The EW reading guide to Milestone’s classic Black superhero comics]
“There wasn’t one [company] like Milestone before, and there hasn’t been one like Milestone since,” comic book veteran Joseph 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.” [Source: A Milestone of modern comics magic: Joseph Illidge dives deep into 'The Dakota Incident']
Regarding the recent return of Milestone, Illidge also talked wth the Comics are Dope podcast:
“Comics, as far as I’m concerned, is the best storytelling medium that is. And part of the reason is because the synthesis… If you’re blessed, you are involved in a comic book in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And I truly feel that about [The Dakota Incident]. I feel like we all came together and we made something that was uniquely beyond the plan.” [Source: JOSEPH ILLIDGE Talks THE DAKOTA INCIDENT, 100k Challenge and What’s Next for Static]
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The Dakota Incident #1
In The New History of the DC Universe, seeds were planted that inferred Milestone’s new continuity in the DC Universe. Was that planned from the beginning, or were both the Milestone and DC elements developed separately and put in conjunction with each other later?
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JOSEPH ILLIDGE Talks THE DAKOTA INCIDENT, 100k Challenge and What’s Next for Static (Comics Are Dope Podcast)
Prove to DC Comics they should publish more Milestone (Monster Complex)
A Milestone of modern comics magic: Joseph Illidge dives deep into ‘The Dakota Incident’ (AIPT Comics)
Bleeding Cool suggests DC made another mistake regarding sales of Dakota Incident (Read the update)
See the history of Milestone in these recent omnibuses
Static, Hardware, Blood Syndicate, and more. Read the original stories of the characters that became Milestone icons in these massive compendiums.
The iconic Milestone line helped define the 90’s: These brilliant and daring writers and artists brought their own experiences into comics that changed the game forever. Milestone ushered in a culturally diverse mix of superheroes, set in the fictional setting of Dakota, and ushered in the comics that inspired the hit TV series Static Shock. Read the original stories from the Milestone Universe!
#1 Milestone Compendium Book One
Milestone Compendium Vol. 1 collects Blood Syndicate #1-12; Hardware #1-12; Icon #1-10; Static #1-8; Xombi #0-11; Shadow Cabinet #0
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#2 Milestone Compendium Book Two
Includes the Worlds Collide crossover with the DC Universe featuring Superman, Superboy and Steel. Milestone Compendium Vol. 2 includes Blood Syndicate #13-23; Hardware #13-21; Icon #11-21; Static # 9-20; Shadow Cabinet #1-4; Steel #6-7, Superboy #6-7, Superman: The Man of Steel # 35-36 and Worlds Collide # 1.
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#3 Milestone Compendium Book Three
Milestone Compendium Book Vol. 3 collects Deathwish #1-4, Blood Syndicate #24-27, Hardware #22-28, Icon #22-27, Static #21-25, Shadow Cabinet #5-13, and Kobalt #1-14.
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#4 Milestone Compendium Book Four
Milestone Compendium Book Vol. 4 collects Blood Syndicate #28-32; Hardware #29-38; Icon #28-37; Static #26-31; Xombi #12-21; Shadow Cabinet #14-17; My Name is Holocaust #1-5; The Long, Hot Summer #1-3.
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#5 Milestone Compendium Book Five
Milestone Compendium Book Vol. 5 collects Blood Syndicate #33-35; Hardware #39-50; Icon #38-42; Static #32-45; Wise Son: The White Wolf #1-4; Heroes #1-6; Static Shock!: Rebirth of the Cool #1-4; Milestone Forever #1-2
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Classic Milestone superheroes are available again in new collections—plus a brand-new comic book. “There wasn’t a company like Milestone before, and there hasn’t been one like Milestone since.”