>Are you as excited about Milestone Forever as I am? What’s that? “What’s Milestone Forever,” you ask? It’s only one of the coolest things to happen in comics, that’s all. Let me ask you this; How many times have you been reading and enjoying a comic book, only to have it canceled well before the book was ready for the ax? Now ask yourself the same question, except this time, replace “comic book”, with “entire company brand”. Because that’s what happened in the 90s with Milestone Media. And let us suppose that you don’t know what Milestone Media is, or you’re not sure what they put out… Well, I’m here to let you know that Milestone is responsible for the creation of a line of comics that featured minority heroes. And not just your typical fare of minorities, we’re talking black, Latino, gay, transgendered, Asian, handicapped, and so on. Some of the titles of these books are as follows; Blood Syndicate, Icon, Hardware, Shadow Cabinet, Xombie, and Static.

If any of those names should sound familiar, it’s probably Static. 3 years after the closing of Milestone’s comic department, a children’s cartoon arose in Static Shock. Essentially repackaging the Milestone lore into a more family friendly deal, that eventually ran for 4 seasons and found it’s self established in the DC Animated Continuity. And I must stress, Static and and the rest of the Milestone comics weren’t meant for kids at all. The Big-Bang incident that gave Static his powers in the show, is vastly different from the one that occurred in the comics. I’ll save you the long-and-drawn-out story, but the short-version is that it involved a massive gang riot and experimental drugs. Let there be no mistake, the Milestone books were violent and were intended for mature audiences. But then… most of the popular 90s comics were for mature audiences… But nevermind that now… We’ve gotta move forward, and finally, DC has been thinking the same way.

What I neglected to mention earlier, was that Milestone was an imprint of DC comics. So, what that means in the simplest terms is that Milestone characters were not a part of the DC Universe. For the most part, DC just printed and distributed the Milestone books. That’s it. I believe there was one crossover back in 1994, but otherwise, the two worlds stayed separate… That was, until DC’s Final Crisis. The Milestone world was merged into the new DC continuity. As I understand, this was briefly dealt with in some Justice League issues, but Milestone Forever is here to go into more detail about the merging of worlds, as well as giving us closure to all of the books that were shut-down in the middle of a story arc. And so, this week, we get part 1 of a 2-part series, dealing with the return of Milestone characters. And it’s only fitting that Dwayne McDuffie (Awesome writer/co-founder of Milestone Media) has returned with some of the Milestone artists to complete this tale as well as welcoming these cool characters in the the world of DC. Feb 3rd. Remember this day.

-Fleet

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