…with the Milestone characters now that they are back from Publishing Limbo.

Static has always been pretty popular, but the rest of the big four Milestone characters might just be shunted off to the side.

Icon has been labelled as The Black Superman and this seeming redundancy causes him to get disregarded. (Even though Superboy, Superboy Prime, Supergirl, Captain Marvel, Black Adam, Mon-El/Valor/M’Onel and the whole planet of New Krypton don’t seem to have that problem).

Hardware has already made an appearance in The Brave and The Bold teaming up with Blue Beetle and even though he was the typical “angry black hero” who doesn’t want to team up with Jaime, at least he was being used. AND the issue hinted at what could possibly be a long term storyline for Hardware. Personally, I just want him to start a new company with John Henry Irons because I’m sick of Lexcorp stuff being everywhere.

Blood Syndicate isn’t technically one character, but they have almost always been treated as one monolithic entity and a lot of creators have rarely used just one or two of the individual members. Not to seem to glib about it, but I’m not even sure if most people are aware they have names.

Of course, the one Milestone character (outside of Static) who will probably get used in the DCU is the top Milestone villain (sorry Alva): Holocaust. Not only is he an angry black drug dealing gang banger with a secret middle class background but he has the added benefit of being offensive to a lot of the Jewish population.

Of course there are other characters, but these are the big ones.

Like I said, I just hope DC does a better job with the Milestone character than Marvel did with the Malibu characters.

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Simply put, this book was a joy to read. I had almost forgotten how much I liked these characters. This might not be a good jumping on point (Someone who is jumping on will have to make that determination), but for those who read the original stories, this is either the beginning of a good jumping BACK on point or the beginning of a last hurrah. I’m not sure what’s going to happen with these characters or the Milestone Universe as a whole, but I am going to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Highly recommended.

BTW: It seems like Dwayne McDuffie had a lot more fun writing this issue than his entire Justice League of America run. I could be wrong but that’s how it seemed to me.

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Mike, Micah and Bill discuss tossing Pizza, fancy sodas, Strange Tales, Stumptown, Punisher The List, Icon, Milestone, Young Liars, Ninja Cowboy Viking, Haunt, Sweet Tooth, Titanium Rain, RASL, Growing Up with Comics, Streets of Gotham, Gotham City Sirens, Vengeance of the Moon Knight and much much more. TV discussion includes Cougar Town, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Clone Wars, Flash Forward and Glee. Not too many movies but we talked about Trick r’ Treat. Grab you iPod and join us for fun in the sun. Wahoo!

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This episode features reviews of Trinity #11 from the top of the show to 17:36, Trinity #12 from 17:38 to 34:00. This is followed by some brief discussion of the Milestone Universe and the upcoming return of these characters to the DC Universe. Then we come back with our review of Hawkman Special #1 from 35:27 to 53:50. And the show is rounded up with some talk about some of the WB’s plans for the future of DC Comics related movies as well as the developing problems between Fox and WB regarding the Watchmen movie.

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