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7. We're Finally Getting A Milestone Relaunch

Milestone Media Comics DC Static Shock
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When Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derik Dingle founded Milestone Media in 1993, they did so in a climate that actively underrepresented people from minority backgrounds.

The company gave way to fan favourite characters like Static (who we all got to see in the DC Animated Universe under Static Shock), before being untimely shutdown in 1997. Needless to say, the surviving creators behind the project have been steadily working towards a Milestone revival - a task that looks set to be achieved with the imminent arrival of 'Earth M'.

Announced over two years ago and stuck in publishing limbo ever since, Jim Lee remarked at the 'Meet the Publishers' panel that Earth M was in fact ready to go, and will be dropping within the coming months. Fantastic news, then, for fans of Cowan et al., and even greater news for the creators themselves.

Who knows why it's taken DC so long to move ahead with the project, especially since it's been two years since the first announcement, but we can all at least be thankful that it's nearly here.

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