static Archives

My mother threw out Superman #1 from 1939. This, as it says above, I assure you, is an absolutely true story. My mother Jean Davis, the inspiration for Static's mom Jean Hawkins, was an incredible woman. Raising my sister Sharon and I in what is considered one of the worst housing projects in New York City would have been[...]

While the Mystery Hero seems like it could be Static or Black Lightning I would lean more towards Static since the character has a really good fan base. Though her character is dead, Lotz confirmed she is going to be part of the show while at Fan Fest 2015 as you can see in the video[...]

Needless to say at the core of any real pop culture movement are its fans, and Milestone's fans take their Milestone seriously. I was counting on that when two weeks ago I wrote a satirical piece called Static Shock Comes To The Big Screen I "revealed" a big screen version of Static Shock was in the[...]

I clicked on the link and was treated to a very well-written, well-produced, and just great to watch "History Of Static Shock." When I first watched the link, less than 300 people had seen it The last time I looked, over 22,000 people had viewed it. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU4_BXDzZU0[/youtube] There are a few factorial glitches with the piece, but[...]

The goal is to sell the idea — the idea is not the goal. As an example of emotion free business I wrote the creative bible for Static Shock His universe is based on my childhood In the original bible, Virgil Hawkins had both a mother and father The WB put a stop to that image[...]

Washington is best known as the co-writer of the original Static series with the late Dwayne McDuffie and also wrote a number of other Milestone series Mr Washington had a large role in Static's formative years and helped make the character into the endearing hero that's appeared in multiple cartoons and comic books over the[...]

Definitely a bravo." PerryWatch: Katy Perry gets Bluewatered. HEROWatch: Static co-creator Robert L Washington III has passed, age 47, after suffering heart attacks After sufering bouts of homelessness, Washington was being helped by the Hero Initiative, and his last published work was for the Hero anthology from Image last month, talking about the work of the charity. It's[...]

This looks like it could be Keron Grant's new cover to Static Shock #1 There was meant to be a new Static Shock series starting this Spring by Felicia Henderson, Scott McDaniel and Jonathan Glapion, but it was either postponed or cancelled, depending who you talked to Makes sense that DC may use this relaunch[...]

In this morning's Runaround, Bleeding Cool posted a tweet from Tommy Lee Edwards about turning down work on the just-soliocited Static Shock Special. DC is planning a Dwayne McDuffie "tribute" book, but has no plans to donate profits to the poor guy's surviving family or any charity… DC have now told Bleeding Cool; Before Dwayne McDuffie's tragic[...]

And it kept me reading the genre until everyone else could catch up. And he did it again years later over at DC, co-founding Milestone Media, writing Static, Icon and Hardware, books that challenged so many assumptions about character and race, dispelling  assumptions of tokenism over ethnic characters in comics by creating rich and multilayered ensemble[...]

He's never been away. Towards the end of the Lying In The Gutters column, I ran a collection of posts that Dwayne McDuffie had posted on the DC Comics