The Washington Post has the exclusive, Milestone
Media, the company behind such superheroes as Static Shock and Icon is back
with Reggie Hudlin, Denys Cowan, and Derek Dingle at its head.
Milestone Media was created in 1992 and flew under the
DC Comics flag, where it thrived at creating African-American superheroes, such
as Shock, and Icon, but also Hardware and the super group the Blood Syndicate.
Hudlin, Cowan, and Dingle say that the re-launch of
the publisher will not only be a tribute to the late co-creator Dwayne McDuffie,
but also to satisfy a need to create new African-American superheroes that have
their own identity, and are not just someone that ends up picking up the mantle
of the white heroes.
“We’ve never just done black characters just to do black characters,” Cowan says. “It’s always come from a specific point of view, which is what made
our books work. What we also didn’t do, which is the trend now, is [to] have
characters that are, not blackface, but they’re the black versions of the
already established white characters — as if it gives legitimacy to these black
characters in some kind of way — [that] these characters are legitimate because
now there’s a black Captain America."
“Having been a creator of these characters and a
consumer, I always looked at it like, ‘Well, geez, couldn’t you give me an
original character?’ ” Cowan adds. “Black Panther worked because he was
original. Static Shock worked because it was an original concept. It’s a good
time to come back and reintroduce original characters, as well as some new
ones.”
In the early 90's Milestone and DC collaborated on a crossover event
called Worlds Collide, which sent characters like Static Shock onto the DC
database, but with the re-launching of the publisher they fates at DC seem
unclear, as is the future of the already announced Static Shock live-action tv
series.
Source - The Washington Post
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