2.224 (589) Static #1 ... DC Milestone ...

There was a time when Marvel was coming up with New Universes and to compensate, DC went a similar route of making DC comic universe more grounded in reality except that DC decided that not only is the setting required to be changed from say Metropolis to ugly-artwork city but that the characters must reflect more diversity. Well ... when something becomes forced upon, it rarely works and unfortunately that experiment is called the Milestone Universe

Here we review the most successful of those characters which was a surprise as a number of the Milestone folks are gang members style and grim and gritty but here we have a scrawny, almost geeky African American kid who found one day that he had gotten powers of the electric kind. Hence the name and as for his costume, well, he is still a kid so you cannot expect him to pop by somewhere and whipped out something cooler, right

This is a decent opening issue that gives us insight into Static as a hero and as regular person type of character. The villain of the issue is no one earth-shattering but enough to give us a taste of what Static is really like ... you might say that is the only purpose of the villain

What I didn't quite like is the artwork both interior and on the cover. The artist has no potential but perhaps with the boom of comics in that time, they could not wait for the artist to get more practise and experience and BANG put him on a solo title

What made this title a success is that years after its cancellation, there was an animated feature made!

Ratings: 4/10