Static Shock & Batman Beyond Team Up for Milestone’s Thirtieth Anniversary

Of the various DC animated collection from the 90s and early 2000s, KidsWB’s Batman Beyond and Static Shock are among the many most beloved. In the comics, each characters have obtained their very own solo books inside the final a number of years, principally Batman Beyond, each due to apparent causes and DC’s revival of for Static (and by extension, the remainder of Milestone Comics) remains to be pretty latest. Now the 2 heroes are teaming up for the second time.

Announced at New York Comic-Con on Friday, Static Beyond is a brief story set sooner or later that’ll see an older Virgil Hawkins cross paths with a nonetheless fairly inexperienced Terry McGinnis in Neo-Gotham. Written and drawn by Nikolas Draper-Ivey (Static), the one-shot might be half of a bigger Thirtieth anniversary anthology meant to have fun Milestone, which first went into print in 1993.

Static and Batman Beyond first met within the former’s season 4 episode “Future Shock” when Virgil was by chance blasted into the longer term and needed to save his future self. Outside of that, the 2 had been featured within the Justice League Unlimited two-parter “Once and Future Thing” as members of the League of their time; Virgil acquired randomly yanked right into a time portal, and Terry…died. (It’s tremendous, time acquired reset, so that they’re alive.) The Static of Beyond, teased Draper-Ivey, can be one “in his prime.”

The total Milestone Thirtieth Anniversary Special will characteristic numerous tales targeted on Milestone characters equivalent to Icon, Rocket, and Hardware. Along with Draper-Ivey, creators connected to the mission embody Stephanie Williams (Wonder Woman: Trial of the Amazons, Wakanda), Chuck Brown (Black Manta, Flawed), and Milestone co-founder Denys Cowan (Power Man & Iron Fist, Hardware). In February 2023, Milestone can even launch two miniseries occasions: the primary, Static: Shadows of Dakota, is sequel miniseries to the 2021 comedian from the returning staff of Vita Ayala, Draper-Ivey, and ChrisCross. And the second, Icon vs. Hardware, is a conflict between the 2 heroes co-written by Reggie Hudlin and Leon Chills.

While you look forward to the particular to launch in 2023, there’s an hour-long documentary on the historical past of Milestone accessible to observe on HBO Max.

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