Milestone Compendium Vol. 2

Milestone Compendium #2

by Dwayne McDuffie, John Paul Leon (Illustrator), M.D. Bright (Illustrator)

Milestone Compendium is a can't-miss collection for any Milestone Comics or 90's comics fan!
 

A new volume of fan-favorite Milestone comics from the 90's are collected in this brilliant compendium edition featuring Static, Icon, Hardware and Blood Syndicate which includes the Worlds Collide crossover with the DC Universe featuring Superman, Superboy and Steel.
Don’t miss your chance to read the classic comics from legendary writers and artists including Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Robert L. Washington, John Paul Leon, Mark Bright and more.

Milestone Compendium Vol. 2 includes Blood Syndicate #13-23; Hardware #13-21; Icon #11 -21; Static # 9 - 20; Shadow Cabinet #1-4; Steel #6-7, Superboy #6-7, The Man of Steel # 35-36 and Worlds Collide # 1

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

1320 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2023

About the author

Dwayne McDuffie was an American writer of comic books and television. His notable works included creating the animated series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited, and co-founding the comic book company Milestone Media.

He co-hosted a radio comedy program, and also wrote under a pseudonym for stand-up comedians and late-night television comedy programs. While working as a copy-editor for a financial magazine, a friend got him an interview for an assistant editor position at Marvel Comics.
While on staff at Marvel as Bob Budiansky's assistant on special projects, McDuffie also scripted stories for the company. His first major work was Damage Control, a series about the company that shows up between issues and tidies up the mess left by the latest round of superhero/supervillain battles. While an editor at Marvel, he submitted a spoof proposal for a comic entitled Teenage Negro Ninja Thrasher in response to Marvel's treatment of its black characters. Becoming a freelancer in early 1990, McDuffie followed that with dozens of various comics titles for Marvel comics, DC Comics, and Archie Comics.

In 1992, wanting to express a multi-cultural sensibility that he felt was missing in comic books, McDuffie co-founded Milestone Media, a comic book company owned by African-Americans.

After Milestone had ceased publishing new comics, Static was developed into an animated series Static Shock. McDuffie was hired to write and story-edit on the series, writing 11 episodes.

McDuffie was hired as a staff writer for the animated series Justice League and was promoted to story editor and producer as the series became Justice League Unlimited. During the entire run of the animated series, McDuffie wrote, produced, or story-edited 69 out of the 91 episodes. McDuffie also wrote the story for the video game Justice League Heroes.

McDuffie was hired to help revamp and story-edit Cartoon Network's popular animated Ben 10 franchise with Ben 10: Alien Force, continuing the adventures of the ten-year-old title character into his mid and late teenage years. During the run of the series, McDuffie wrote episode 1-3, 14, 25-28, 45 and 46 and/or story-edited all forty-six episodes.

On February 22, 2011, McDuffie died from complications due to a surgical procedure performed the previous evening.

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Reviews

[Nolan Buro]

With as many creators and characters that are in this book, it's going to be a mixed bag. I LOVE the Icon and Hardware issues. McDuffie and Bright were a great team. Static is a fantastic character, but the plots are often awkwardly dated(though also ahead of their time!) There's a lot of fantastic art, and some early really rough art from creators that would go on to be superstars. Worth a read, as even the less successful stories are ambitious and innovative for their time.

[Joe Crawford]

4.5

[Darik]

More fantastic comics from the Milestone creators-- only better this time, because it ditches the supernatural nonsense of Xombi for the political-thriller intrigue of Shadow Cabinet!

Really, the only weak spots in this volume are a few tepid issues with fill-in writers, and-- most disappointingly-- the big "Worlds Collide" crossover with the Superman family books. I was really hoping for some sort of philosophical or political give-and-take between the utopian Super-people and the harsher reality of Dakota... but instead the books mostly chicken out and turn the whole event into a meta-commentary on comic-book crossovers. I guess it's no surprise that DC wouldn't chance doing anything interesting with their gilded idol Superman back in the '90s, but still... it's pretty weak.

[Benjamin Murray]

A 5 star but 3 star. So much of this compendium has its value in the sociological context of the 90s. The comics included demonstrate a Stark reminder of the urban reality which so many of the comic book readers did not see represented when they read the average Marvel or SC comic.

I would give these comics an R rating, but mostly due to the fact that readers who read them will encounter mature realities. They try to put forth a true reality in a fictional reality.

[Matt Sautman]

Expanding on the story arcs from Compendium 1, Compendium 2’s high points largely pertains to major shifts in Hardware’s relationship with Alva Industries and Rocket’s relationship with Icon as her pregnancy draws near.

[Ming]

oof that bullshit crossover was SO rough

[Julio Valentin]

Can't stand Static. The crossover was longer than it needed to be. Otherwise, an entertaining read, it really was ahead of its time.