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Hello, and welcome to First Issues now, the weekly show
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posted daily ish about only the newest first issues released
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by insert common company. Here this week, I'll be looking
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at the comics release for the week of November twelve,
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twenty twenty five. I love Batman Beyond and I love Static. Yes,
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his name is Static. I know the Static Shock Show
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was popular, but still his name Static. Also I should
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frontload this and say that my now ancient Honest Comics
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trailer parody of Honest Trailers is still up on my
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YouTube channel for a Static the very first one I believe,
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Rebirth of the Cool is also up there. Yes, I
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really have nothing to say before diving into this other
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than I am excite. So let's check out Batman Static
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Beyond number one, written by Evan Narcis, art by Nicholas
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Draper ivy, colors by Wilkintana with letters by Wes Abbott.
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In the not so distant future, young hero Terry McGuinness
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patrols the streets of Neo Gotham as Batman Beyond, while
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Virgil Hawkins aka Static, forges a new technological revolution in
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Dakota City with the introduction of the Q Wave energy grid.
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Together alongside the Justice League Beyond, the heroes prepare for
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the Earth's induction into the planetary alliance known as the Cooperative.
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Everything seems to be going smoothly until a new villain
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arrives on the scene and puts everything at risk. At
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the center of all the mayhem is the unlikely duo
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of Static and Batman Beyond, as they must now work
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together to save the world before it's too late. Before
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I get into this issue, I need to say the
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simplest thing. This isn't my Static. This is the one
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that was rebooted in twenty twenty one with the Milestone
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Returns event, where it's a Black Lives Matter protest that
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got the big bang that made everyone bang babies rather
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than the gang rumble of the original. If you only
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know the past versions, this actually may get a little wait,
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that
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didn't happen, or that's not what it is. Granted,
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I also think that that version, or this version rather
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actually hurts Virgil in updating him, which hindered how unique
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he was when he was introduced. But honestly, that is
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a conversation about his and basically most of, if not all,
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of Milestone characters being very different and changed with the
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Times compared to their nineties debut. That's just me being
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an old hat. It probably reads better for people who
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are much younger today in comparison to when I was
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young and I read the original. With all of that said,
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I actually really do like this book. It is a
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good introduction for Static and the Batman Beyond Universe plus
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Icon and the Justice League Beyond. However, I don't think
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this is really that new reader friendly, since there are
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general assumptions that you have to have or at least
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have an understanding of, like the Batman Beyond cartoon. I
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say that because this also doesn't really feel like it
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connects well to past Batman Beyond comics. But at the
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same time, it also kind of makes you think you
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might need to have read the Static shot comics. But
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it's also not really true because he is aged up,
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so there's a lot of new stuff for even people
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who know the Static universe. It is just a smidge
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weird kind of assumption that one would assume with any
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sort of book that has a past history. As for
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the writing, again, I liked it. The Q wave protests
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and the general social justice of both Terry and Virgil
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does make sense well. There are also very good action
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and sakogam moments for the art, although I do think
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the art is where this lets me down a little.
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In strictly a writing sense, it's fairly straightforward, where there
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are at times in this, mostly in the action that
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the art style well generally feels a bit muddied or
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not outright confusing but just janky. So overall good, but
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there is definitely a curve to have with this. But
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I can't hate on a book that has two of
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my favorite characters in it. I can't, So I guess
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that's why my verdict for this book has to be
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read it at the very least. This book is absolutely
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worth engaging with and do at home. Should totally read
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it and aside for yourself if you want to continue
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the ride. I personally will be adding it to my
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pull list and probably will get a trade physical buy
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out of it. But truthfully, there is just enough in
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here that may hinder readers that I can't go out
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and say pull it outright. Yes, I know I hate
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when I give my middle of the road verdict io,
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but maybe I'm wrong. Let me know what your thoughts
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