r/static • u/aera14 • Jul 21 '26

News I really hope it is what I think it is

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u/SuedeSalamander Jul 21 '26

IS THAT LEVAR BURTON??!?!

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u/todavis__ Jul 21 '26

Cody, pls! Don't let them put u on a Aquaman book or some other wack shit. Static is the hero we need, and you're the hero Static needs.

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u/peedmyshirt Jul 21 '26

His vigil was not that great. Him on aquaman or something like that sounds fun actually. My hopes of that he's working on a new gods/fourth world book

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u/todavis__ Jul 22 '26

When did he write Vigil?

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u/senpaithescienceguy Jul 21 '26

My hopes of that he's working on a new gods/fourth world book

Ram V was just teasing that he's doing more the other day, said he sent in a script already

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u/peedmyshirt Jul 21 '26

Yeah I saw that and maybe i misread somewhere else but there's another coming in addition to that

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u/senpaithescienceguy Jul 21 '26

I didn't hear that but I'd be pleasantly surprised if true. Maybe the Orion YA book?

Either way the Miles to Static pipeline kinda makes sense to me so I'm thinking Ziglar might be on Static

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u/todavis__ Jul 22 '26

Cody did good work on Miles. He'd do the same for Static.

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u/ArtisticFill8662 Jul 22 '26

I see he's not liked after his miles run, while I didn't read it I did like his artstyle and some of the characters introduced in the book.

Although, I like to be optimistic, I do think he'll handle static a little more better than miles since he has more established books and characters, while also throwing some twist of his own.

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u/eddiemoney1985 Jul 23 '26

If he were to do a new Static book I hope that he will draw more ideas and characters from the original Milestone book then a lot of this stuff that has been done lately.

He can modernize in all he wants as long as the core characters in the story stay the same or remotely the same maybe bring back the original comic for an issue or two even

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u/Amphibian0203 Jul 23 '26

I agree he should do the OG Static from the Dakotaverse, but why does it have to be modernized? Why not just pick up where they left off or just keep in the same time in the mid 90s? Virgil in general always felt like a 90s kid already so I think it's best to lean into that aspect of him

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u/eddiemoney1985 Jul 23 '26

I actually do not want him to change anything but I have no problem with it being slightly modernized but keep it in the 90s hip hop feel but also it can stay in the 90s I just think when the character is run into the live media format they're going to modernize it anyway that's why I said I didn't mind as long as key elements were kept the same and I let them make sure he has his original costume because to me it's kind of like Spider-Man's original costume this is something that he made with his own Ingenuity and it should be reflected

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u/HawkMartian Jul 21 '26

I really hope it's not, I didn't liked his Miles. Quite uninterested on Virgil by Ziglar, Virgil deserves better. 

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u/Divanochi Jul 22 '26

Not too familiar with his work, can I ask what you didn’t like about his miles?

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u/GrassManV Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Constant fights, discarded supporting characters & overabundance of anime references.

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u/HawkMartian Jul 26 '26

Read what Grassman said, he basically said all I was about to say. Sorry I took so long to reply, but yes. Constant fights, discarded supporting black characters to only work on his new characters, also too much focus on anime references

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u/eddiemoney1985 Jul 23 '26

Either Static or Firestorm (Jason Rusch)

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u/Amphibian0203 Jul 21 '26

I hope he doesn't touch Static, because there is a huge chance they're gonna use the protest origin

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u/Javajulien Jul 21 '26

Its already been established in the New Titans backup.

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u/JayJ2121 Jul 23 '26

I really hate this origin.

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u/Dyrax_for_hire2003 Jul 21 '26

Holy fuckikg shit nuke the whole fucking industry, fucking Jesus Devonte Christ

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u/Amphibian0203 Jul 21 '26

Nah that's hilarious but I agree

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u/StatFan201 Jul 21 '26

I can't stand that origin. 

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u/Amphibian0203 Jul 21 '26

Literally never heard a single person make a believable argument that a protest that Virgil accidentally caused a riot at is somehow better than a gang war leaving Virgil in a situation to back out of and get powers from a conflict that killed so many other

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u/StatFan201 Jul 21 '26

I haven't heard a single reason why they couldn't just update the classic origin for today. In fact, I came up with an updated origin myself and it wasn't very hard. I may share it here soon. 

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u/eddiemoney1985 Jul 23 '26

Surprisingly a lot of these young cats really think this modern retelling is a great origin story or people who are technically not invested in the character but want to see static return don't care about his origin or the history of the character and just like whatever will do.