This video series does a great job remembering the impact of Milestone, with loving commentary from some great people, but there's a huge misconception that in my opinion began in a pervious Milestone mini doc produced on A&E and its being continued here, that Dwayne McDuffie and Static #25 were the reason Milestone stopped publishing comics. That's incredibly incomplete and inaccurate and I know because I was there. I'm Jason Scott Jones and I was an artist and a staffer at Milestone. I joined Milestone before the first books were on newsstands and starting with Issue #5 of Static I worked on art in Milestone's comics. Later I became Color Editor and besides managing the painters who worked on the books I was a regular painted artist on Icon & Hardware as well as several other issues. For 25 years I've kept a lot of the details of Milestone to myself or within conversations with other former staffers, but the continuing implication of Dwayne as being the cause of the end would bother me if he were living and definitely bothers me with his passing.

*R.I.P Dwayne McDuffie! He was one of my heroes and very important part of my childhood.*

I bought all of the MILESTONE titles when they came out. I bought them, at first, due to curiosity, then fell in love with ICON and HARDWARE. STATIC was cool, too, but ICON was the one that really stuck with me.

Blood Syndicate is a money property that is being slept on.

Static shock cartoon was one of the most famous here in Brazil

Most African American children today don't know who Dwayne Mcduffie. It's sad.

I'll like to say thank you Black history month for making this a relevant subject to talk about. And of course to Milestone for giving me positive black heroic images to look up to.

DC needs to put Milestone comics on their app, they're too good to ignore

I can't believe it. A video covering the legacy of Milestone. Love it. I wonder what an Icon series would be like. As much as I opposed the idea of Black Lightning crossing over with the other CW shows due to differences in tone and the possible undermining of Black Lightning's characters, I did think that Crisis would have been a great opportunity to introduce some Milestone characters on the show. The most obvious and in demand would have been Static.

Blood syndicate is my favorite superhero group. So much more interesting than any other group to me.

I’m kinda surprised Spike Lee never tried to make any of the Milestone characters a movie

Behind the panel is my favorite show!

I really wish the DC Universe app would drop the whole Milestone run in a digital format.

Between image and milestone idk which had the stronger influence on my childhood part of the reason I wanted to become a comic book artist

Loved Milestone!!! Donner and Blitzen were two of my favorite characters in Shadow Cabinet. Xombi was a fantastic character too. But the big guns were always Icon, Hardware, and of course Staic Shock I don't understood why they never made a resurgence.

Milestone comics that logo definitely brings memories of the whole 90s experience. We had milestone comics and hip-hop.

OMYGOD! I gotta get my hands on one of those production bibles!!! Those designs should be in an IDW artist edition!

To this day Hardware is still one of my favorite hero designs. I was lucky enough to remember visiting the Milestone booth at conventions and meeting some of the creators.

Mile stone got me more interested in comics because as a kid we saw characters that look like us and the storylines were pretty fun. Blue marvel was amazing as well.

I never knew about them until amc did their documentary series about the history of comic books. But Static Shock was one of my favorite shows as a kid

Maaaaaaaaan Blood Syndicate was my JOINT!

By the time Milestone comics came along I had become bored with superhero concepts. However one title from Milestone resonated with me and that was "Xombi" which had more in common with fantasy/sci-fi and horror tropes than just being considered as superhero fare. Besides its main character David Kim , a bio-technological researcher who had become infused with nanites which made it impossible to stay injured for long or even die, the short-lived series gave us a bizarre collection of fantasy/supernatural characters such as The Rabbi (who created and was always accompanied by powerful Golems), the clairvoyant Nun-of-the-Above, Teenage Catholic Schoolgirl (with "God-given" powers of flight, force beams and force fields), evil characters such as Dr. Sugarman, The Lord of Fumes, and psychic assassins/siblings Manuel and Manuela Dexterity(whose lower bodies looked like human hands).

I think the crossover was ESSENTIAL, it was proof positive that the MILESTONE characteristics COULD compare,they DID stack up proper. The crossover showed that "ours" could be as "cool" and as ICONIC as anyone elses.

This is by far the best thing I've seen all week I grew up on these comics I've read every comic

How about a mini-documentary on Valiant & Catalyst Prime Universe?

I have to co-sign everything Jason just said. I wasn't there till the end but we all know this was more about DC not supporting than anything to do with Dwayne.

Thank you all for making this!!!!

The way Christopher Priest presents the development of Static the character at Milestone is consistent with the way Dwayne McDuffie says it happened. McDuffie says he had the idea and pitched it to Marvel but they didn't take the bait so to speak. Then when Milestone was founded and they were coming up with characters he pulled the idea back out and all the founders worked together on it and we got Static.

I'm glad they're recognizing the impact a publisher like Milestone Media had, And their stories still hold up almost three decades later.

I loved Milestone comics. I don't understand why they aren't used more in DC. A Blood Syndicate vs Teen Titans comic would be cool. But, I would personally love to see a ICON vs Blue Marvel series if Marvel/DC happens again. I'm trying to post comments on every new DEATH BATTLE, but to no avail. They did a spider-man (Miles Morales) vs Static, but no love for ICON or Blue Marvel Yet.

Legit "representation" in comics. Proud, very proud, to have interned and worked for this company back in the day. Icon and Blood Syndicate are among the best comics ever created.

I loved Milestone for a simple reason: Milestone made good comics. I read them when they came out, and even though at that time I was less interested in the political side of things, the realness of so many characters really appealed to me. "America eats it's young"...… Political sure, but how it resonated far overshadowed any amount of cutting edge boundary pushing in my then young mind. Would love to be able to buy digital copies through something like Comixology.

And that artwork was unparalleled. The Dakotaverse yaw

An Icon movie would be amazing right now!

Dwayne MCduffie is a legend

I loved these books. They had a color style like nothing I'd ever seen and great artwork.

I feel robbed, all I ever knew of was Static.

I love MILESTONE Comics & Cards as a kid!! My cousin and I were EXTREMELY sad to see it pair with DC and dwindle away. I still have Oblivion as my cover photo on twitter.✊🏾🖤

The story of Milestones development would make a great movie! I really enjoyed learning about the history and backstory. Going to watch part II now!

We need to have all the Milestone comics in graphic novels.

We can be heroes.

DC ur tired of Superman movies?!?!? CAN WE GET AN ICON MOVIE!!!!

NOW ITS BACK. WE BACK BABY

what an amazing video. Only read a couple issues of Static & Icon cause I grew up with both of them being on shows so i was much more familiar with growing up but this video makes me want to full dive into the world of Milestone, which I will 100 percent be doing. gonna order as many trades as i can of all Milestone work.Thank you for this video

Oh wow my substitute teacher had all of these comics and let me borrow them loved icon and blood syndicate

Static was mostly created by Michael Davis and several of the characters in the book were based off of a couple of his family members.

Cant wait for part 2

💥 the characters Zoro and Batman were based on a true Mexican hero called Joaquin Murrieta

RIP to the legend McDuffie! Truly missed.

Wish I coulda got ROCKET N ICON. though they did roll both characters into justice league and young Justice respectively. That being said they definitely NEED to do some storylines featuring both

I remember Icon and Rocket and Static and evening Brickhouse! These were some very intriguing characters and an amazing precursor to the attempt to diversify the DC Universe we know today. Sadly politics always get in the way when money and different ideologies are involved.

So much love for this Can't wait for the compendium

I hope they go into Shadow Cabinet in part 2.

They never shouldve worked with DC. They should've made there own separate publisher.

I STILL have my Static #1!!!$ And the whole Worlds Collide event.

I'm excited for part 2, I'm a huge Milestone fan! Love SYFY for doing this. My only question is ( maybe two questions ), is this a one and done thing, cause it's black history month, or will this be an ongoing thing cause the comic world is full of Black and other ethnic superheroes.

Blood Syndicate was the joint! I loved them and Hardware.

I was just thinking about this two days ago!

omg i suddenly love this character

Now that's rad.

I remember growing up in the 90s I would go to 10th planet comic shop in Illinois I bought the crossover milestone with DC Comics I really enjoyed the characters that came from Milestone I hope they are independently made or still owned by DC Comics I hope they brought a lot of them back

Milestone was amazing. DC should be utilizing their characters way more

Outraged I can’t find an omnibus of static shock ANYWHERE!

i love this documentaries

I love all of what milestone is doing 😁😁😁💯💯💯😍😍😍😍❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥

Anywhere I could download the Milestone Bible?

Milestone comic needs come back

After jon schnepp passing away and soon after collider heroes becoming straight trash this is my new favorite show

David kirkman has brought back Static in a live action fan film in the form of Dakota chronicles on KZfaq for free Static was part 1 tonight @ 9 pm Icon and Rocket is going Live go support David Kirkman made Static on 3k budget that rivals studio films

Paul did Dwayne dirty facts

It's just too bad all these characters have pretty much disappeared now. What happened to that Earth-M thing that DC was working on a few years ago? Was it cancelled?

Wow. All these comics that I'll NEVER get to read

BRING OUT ALL THE MOVIES .. Lets push this!!

9:03 Anyone know who makes that hat?

Could you do a video on Mister terrific?

Rest in peace Dwayne McDuffie creator of Virgil Hawkins Static Shock.🕊🙏🏾😥💜

so stoked to get my MIlestone Comics Compendium in october. 1300+ pages of milestone characters for under 50 bucks!

Omnibus anywhere?

Hardware??? maybe Icon but Hardware isn't used at all

I think DC is missing a huge opportunity to highlight the Dakota verse via movies and tv. Yes Marvel has a head start with Black Panther but DC creating a universe around minorities would put them in a different category.

Mantis Media Comics is have a HUGE SALE on Facebook live right now! COMICS STARTING AT ONLY $1!!!!!

I LOVE❤️💕💗The Great Dwayne McDuffie And Static Shock

Is that rapper Pharoahe Monch at 17:03?

Shouts to Milestone and glad to see a piece on the legacy but ya'll buggin w/ this music lol

I had every black comic book ever made to bad I was only a kid I wish some would of put them up for me dang

It's time to do it again. /-_-/

How can I buy milestone comics digitally? They're not on comixology

I LOVE❤️💕💗Milestone Comics, Static Shock And The Great Dwayne McDuffie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back before they turned my boy static into a cornball.

I WILL ALWAYS EFFFING LOVE❤️💕💗MILESTONE COMICS AND THE GREAT DWAYNE MCDUFFIE

We need the movies think icon movie

Yeah son got 2 #1 copies of static don't start NONE , yaw can finish the rest

Was that one dude crying the whole time!

Is DC trying to patch up things with Milestone, cuz icon and Blood Syndicate is on DCInfinite? if yes, then i am so happy!!!

So milestone media paved the way for the most notable tokenized heroes of today

Icons live action movie 🎬 should be played by Jonathan Majors since he's out of Marvel.

You know the Image never had a glass ceiling. I kinda feel some of this was a self made.

I believe that the Milestone/DC deal was the worst thing for Milestone. DC should either use the characters or let them go.

Here is where I think they went wrong with making black characters they constantly beat you over the head with the racial thing instead of telling a cool superhero story. Stan lees black characters like black panther and luke cage told stories about those characters and not preaching to you about being black. As a black guy myself, I don't need a character to look like me to be able to relate to that character and that's the problem with comics today these people think that characters need to look like the audience so that they can relate to them or entertain them and that's why manga beats American comics today.

You had me until iron angel. Just terrible. BTW, I love Icon and Static