Thursday, November 5th, 2009
By Alex Segura
What is MILESTONE FOREVER, you ask? Well, we can take a guess, but why slow down the process? Since it’s part and parcel of what we do, being The Source and all, we talked to Milestone founder and MILESTONE FOREVER writer Dwayne McDuffie for the scoop on the new project, along with some essential back story to bring you newbies up to speed. Take it away, Dwayne:
16 years ago this month, industry giant DC Comics and upstart Milestone Media entered into an unprecedented creative partnership, producing 14 interlocking, creator-owned titles including Hardware, Icon, and the multimedia hit that would best be known as Static Shock. The story Milestone chose to tell was an audacious one, larger than life on its surface, character and story-driven at its base, Humanist and multicultural at its heart. For over 250 issues, fans explored a superhero universe like no other.
Today, nine Parents Choice awards, four Eisner Award nominations and one Emmy and Humanitas award-winning hit TV series later, Milestone is back, its continuity mysteriously merged with the DCU. While we saw the DC side of the story in “Justice League: When Worlds Collide,” Milestone Forever gathers the original artists from Milestone’s launch titles: John Paul Leon, Mark Bright, Chris Cross and Milestone Founder Denys Cowan, to complete the tales told in the original runs of STATIC SHOCK, ICON, HARDWARE, SHADOW CABINET and BLOOD SYNDICATE. Milestone Editor in Chief Dwayne McDuffie reveals the final fate of each of Milestone’s launch characters in a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe, and the birth of something new, with major consequences for the future of the DC Universe.
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Tags: denys cowan, dwayne mcduffie, harvey richards, john paul leon, justice league of america, milestone
9 Responses to “Prepare for MILESTONE FOREVER in 2010”
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About friggin’ time. I’ve been waiting for a really big push for the Milestone characters since their return. The JLA story was good, but rather got lost in a shuffle of events and crossovers. As of the moment, Static’s the only one getting any play, and that’s a shame.
They’re great characters, and if given the right platform, can be popular with today’s comic readers.
I await with high hopes.
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WOW! …sounds epic.
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Excellent! I loved McDuffy’s run on JLA… He seriously did the best job possible with the rag-tag characters at his disposal.
Using the events in Final Crisis as a vehicle to integrate the Milestone Universe into the DCU proper was incredibly cool and downright classic. McDuffy seemed like one of the few writers that knew how to handle the effects of a story like FC and use it to his advantage. Unlike all the terrible Countdown books.
It’s a damn shame he was fired from JLA for his blog comments. Fans appreciate honesty and can handle seeing how the sausage gets made from time to time.
McDuffy could probably have farted out a better story than that abysmal Royal Flush Gang arc.
Anyway… I can’t wait for Milestone Forever!!!
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now this is more like it
It should have started this way.
Great news!
I’d love to see more Milestone characters in DCU. I’d definitely pick up any book featuring them.