For the month of May/June our Black Superhero of the Month is..
STATIC
or Static Shock as he's been called.
Static is a black superhero named Virgil Hawkins that started out in Millstone Comics; which was an independently owned division of DC comics that focused on minority heroes. Static was created by the late Dwayne McDuffie.
McDuffie once stated that Static was the "Spiderman" of the Millstone universe. He's a geeky, intelligent teen who has to deal with teen issues and then gets powers and has a entirely different set of problems arise from it.
After Millstone Comics stopped publishing, Static was brought to the small screen as the cartoon Static Shock. The show lasted several seasons. Later Static was integrated into the "main" DC universe and has fought along side the Teen Titans. Virgil also appeared in the second season of Young Justice.
Virgil Hawkins is a young intelligent high school kid who lets his mouth write a check that his @ss can’t cash. He ends up getting beaten up by a bully. To get revenge, he gets a gun from a friend and sneaks to the site of a huge gang fight, planning to shoot the bully in retaliation. Well despite it all, Virgil is not a killer; so he doesn’t shoot the bully. But the city authorities arrives to the scene of the gang fight and use an experiential tear gas that is meant to be used to track the offenders by marking them using harmless radioactivity; similar to the tracking dye used to track whale. The gas ends up granting many of the gang members and other people involved powers and the event is then referred to as the “Big Bang”. Those who gained abilities from the gas are referred to as “Bang Babies”.
Static’s powers focus on electromagnetism allowing him to control and generate electricity with various effects: such as electronic blasts, blinding flashes, energy shields, and even flight (he used trash can lid for a longtime). Like Peter Parker, Virgil is extremely intelligent and uses his scientific knowledge to augment the use of his powers and/or out think his adversaries.
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