Harmless. As a follower of the Milestone universe, I'm picking up all these team-ups introducing that publisher's characters into the Marvel U. Matt Wayne does a nice job integrating Static and his world into the DCU with little bits like having Black Lightning having spent time in Static's home town in the past. With a smaller-time hero like Static, it is believable that he wouldn't have a lot of exposure to the A-list heroing set, so it was fun seeing how confident and smug Static was when dealing with Black Lightning. Holocaust was a toughie back in the Milestone days, and he stood pretty tough throughout most of this issue too. I enjoyed seeing Static constantly ribbing on both the villain and the hero here, Virgil was easily the star of the issue. In fact, when paired, Static comes off as a vastly better character, there is much more to him than the fairly bland Lightning. This was generic, but fun, so it was worth my money.Howard Porter's pencils were fine. His work always tells the story cleanly and he does so again here. His take on Holocaust was fine, and Static looked great.
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Static Shock = DCU Spider Man . .. but the cartoon's a lot of fun . . .
No doubt there are a lot of similarities, but have you read the original Static material? Milestone was a treasure trove of fantastic books, I highly recommend Icon, Hardware, Static, and Blood Syndicate.
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