Static: Season One #1 and the revamp of cool: covers, preview, more

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Energy never dies, IT just changes - and with Unchangeable: Season Same the iconic hero Static returns in a modern revamp past Milestone veterans and a new generation of creators. As we get closer to its June 15, we now have more along the series - from a synopsis to variant covers, and even a look at bottom at the humorous.

Revamped as part of a broader revivification of Milestone Media's heroes in a alone partnership with DC, Static: Season One reimagines Virgil Hawkins and his city of Dakota thanks to writer Vita Ayala with artists ChrisCross and Nikolas Draper-Ivey.

"Hangdog wonk Virgil Hawkins wasn't the kind of kid you'd ordinarily find on the streets at a protest - but like everyone else in the city of Dakota, he was tired of," reads DC's verbal description of Static: Season One #1.

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Static: Season One #1 preview

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Static: Season One — (Image credit: Nikolas Draper-Ivey (District of Columbia/Milestone Media))

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"Unfortunately, the low gear time atomic number 2 stood up to raise his vocalisation, the world off upside down. The enquiry tear gas released that day left some of his classmates wounded Beaver State assassinated… but it left Virgil, and others, with stunning new abilities. Virgil has power internal him immediately - real power, the power to transfer and manipulate electromagnetic fields.

"But on that point's angriness burning inside him, too," the description continues. "What is he so-called to do about all of this? And first and fore - what is He supposed to do about his bullies, at present that they've got superpowers excessively?"

Serial artist Nikolas Draper-Ivy says that the titular hero's first look and his freeform dreadlocks were originally inspired aside the late artist Basquiat. Patc on the otherwise hand, Daisy Watkins looks are a court to Halle Berry's role as Angela in Boomerang.

Hera's a look at Static: Season One design sketches by Nikolas Draper-Ivy.

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Static: Season Nonpareil design sketches

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"All I can say is that this iteration combines elements from both the animated series and OG comics, while still being its personal matter," says Draper-Ivy on Facebook. "I think you folks are really gonna like information technology. Nothing will ever so beat the new, but we're gonna make our best to put as a good deal love into this project as possible. I predict, y'wholly about to eat."

To boot to the primary cover seen above by Khary Randolph, Static: Mollify 1 #1 testament also have variants by Shawn Martinbrough/Chris Sotomayor (an 'gaga civilize' variant), Nikolas Draper-Ivy (a 'parvenue school' variant), Denys Cowan/Brad Anderson (1:25 variant), Olivier Coipel/Brad Maxwell Anderson (a 'team' stochastic variable), and Kyle Baker (a TFAW inner variant).

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Static: Season One #1 variant covers

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Static: Season One #1 variant cover — (Image reference: Kyle Baker (DC/Milestone Media))

Single additional variants exclusive to certain retailers are also prearranged, merely as-yet-unrevealed.

Static: Flavour One #1 (of 6) goes along sale on June 15. A hardcover collection of Nonmoving: Season One is already scheduled for Feb 15, 2022.

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Newsarama Elder Editor Chris Double-dyed has covered comic Bible news for Newsarama since 2003, and has also written for Army Today, Lifetime, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Every week, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Hemorrhage Cool, Comic Shop Tidings, and CBR. He is the source of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Wish Eisner Humourous Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the Dry land Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Apple-shaped Table. (He/him)