“Am I Doing the Right Thing?”

Milestone Media's Static was an unprecedented dramatization of the complexity of black youth subjectivity in comics. Static addressed major youth concerns, such as drugs, sex, sexuality, violence, and physical and mental health. In the field of superhero comics, Milestone Media was a revolution, even if short-lived. An independent comics company founded in 1992 and owned by black comics professionals Derek T. Dingle, Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, and Michael Davis, it was known for its groundbreaking line of comics that placed characters of color at the center of superhero stories that dealt unabashedly with intersectional issues of race and class inequality, urban violence, masculinity, sexualization of women, teen pregnancy, and gay youth, among others. Ramzi Fawaz demonstrates a trend of "cross-cultural encounter rather than assimilation" across postwar superhero comics through readings of major series like the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby era of Fantastic Four and Chris Claremont's X-Men.