Milestone Media, started in 1992 and published comics starring African-American superheroes as an imprint of DC Comics in the early 90's. Since then, DC has absorbed a small contingent of the Milestone characters into the larger DC Universe (most notably Static Shock) but most of the Milestone characters fell into limbo. Today, The Washington Post has revealed that Hudlin, Denys Cowan and Derek Dingle will lead a relaunch of Milestone as a tribute to the late, great Dwayne McDuffie. Another aspect of the relaunch is a desire to satisfy the need to create, new African-American superheroes that have their own identity and weren't simply handed the mantle of an already established, white superhero [i.e. Falcon/Captain America, Power Girl, etc]. Milestone retains ownership over all of its original characters and hopes to have artwork to show at SDCC 2015.
What this news means for characters like Static Shock's continued existence in the DC Comics universe remains unclear.
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