Static Shock was one of several old Milestone titles I picked up regularly (Hardware and Blood Syndicate being the others, if your interested), so when I saw that it was getting a new lease on life, I was intrigued to say the least.
I got over that pretty quick. Heck, I got over DC NU52 pretty quick. OMAC was fun, but repetitive. Frankenstein was concept-awesome but execution-average. All-Star Western is stuck in Gotham City: CSI Ol' Timey Edition, which was cool, but I'd like some frontier six-gun action, pleaseandthankyou. Demon Knights is still on its first story six issues in (and oh it's a good story, but c'mon...six issues?). And Static Shock was...disappointing. Not bad, but not good.
It was certainly a comic book of some form or another. Just not one for me. Which was confusing, because John Rozum is a writer I like (Midnight, Mass. was the sh*t, y'all I ain't even lying), so I was expecting something better.
So, apparently there was a reason that Static Shock was, how you say, 'uneven' in terms of quality.
Yeah. That sounds depressingly familiar, don't it? It's not the same situation, really, but shades of Christmas Past and all that.
It's a shame for a variety of reasons. But at least now Rozum is free to do something else...like a new Midnight, Mass. series.
Y'know, if he wanted. No pressure.
Look...just gimme a one-shot. I'm not begging.
...
Fine, I'm begging.
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It is a shame. I have enjoyed Rozum's work at Milestone (Xombi and Kobalt), and his Red Circle work at DC recently, so I wish DC had set up a situation to play to his strengths not simply serve as a vehicle for editor and artist alone as seems to be the case.
On another tangent: If All-Star Western is set in Gotham (East Coast), then why is it called a Western...? Just wondering...
Because it stars Jonah Hex, I assume. I don't think it's supposed to be actually set in Gotham, but that's where the majority of the stories have taken place. It's an odd book.
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