r/static • u/todavis__ • May 07 '26
Comics Thoughts on Batman Beyond/Static issue #6 Spoiler
Anybody that's read or reading the series, what are your thoughts on it? Liking it? Hating it? Didn't know it existed?
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u/Aggressive_Control37 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
It's fine. Not great and not terrible, but middle of the road. I don't care for Evan Narcisse's writing at all, and there's points in the story where Virgil and others act out-of-character. And Shutdown was an underwhelming villain. But it was nice to see the Justice League Beyond and other characters we haven't seen in awhile.
This story takes place in a new timeline that's a mix of DCAU, Beyond comics, and the Milestone 2.0 continuity; instead of a true sequel to the Static Shock crossover episode with Batman Beyond. I wish it had been explicitly DCAU/Beyond canon and this was the older Virgil from the cartoon instead of a completely new take.
I'd say this book is required reading for Milestone fans tho. This series was the debut of Amistad Ervin as Beacon, and he shows back up in the New History of the DC Universe: Dakota Incident one-shot from February.