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Tag Archives: Milestone
It Came From the Back Room #17
Dwayne McDuffie died last week, on February 21. He was a co-founder of Milestone Comics, and animation producer of Static Shock, Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, but in addition he was an admirable writer of comic books. This week, instead of the usual back-room letter-J stuff, I pulled some of his best work for the cover-price racks. Damage Control McDuffie was working as an assistant editor at Marvel in the late ’80s when he came up with this concept: a comic focusing on the guys who clean up after superhero fights, repairing all the damage, sweeping up the … Continue reading →
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
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Tagged Ben 10, Damage Control, Deathlok, Dwayne McDuffie, Ernie Colon, Fantastic Four, Hardware, Icon, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Kyle Baker, Milestone, Static, Static Shock
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It Came From the Back Room #6
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school year now in full gear), this amounts to a two-year project. I’ve currently started on the Marvel and DC “M” stuff. Here are some of the titles I’ve been encountering: DC: Milestone Comics Milestone was an early-’90s attempt to increase diversity in superhero comics, both among their characters and their creators. Its four founders — Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, … Continue reading →
Posted in DC, Reviews
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Tagged Blood Syndicate, Chriscross, Cowan, DC, Hardware, Icon, J.H. Williams III, John Paul Leon, M.d. Bright, McDuffie, Milestone, Ramos, Static, Static Shock, Velez, Worlds Collide
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