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Static #5 (Oct. 1993):
“Megablast”
by Robert L. Washington III, John Paul Leon, Steve Mitchell

Static #5

Title: “Megablast”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 1993

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Robert L. Washington III
Art by: John Paul Leon, Steve Mitchell


14 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Static Static (Virgil Hawkins)
(lead character)
hero
  black; Heroes...  DC Milestone Media 148
Rick Stone Rick Stone supporting character
CBR Scale: S LGBT
Ernest Hemingway High School
[Static's longtime friend]
DC Milestone Media 82
Commando X Commando X (Howell Rice) villain
CBR Scale: M Black Muslim (Nation of Islam); anti-Semite; black supremacist
[bombs a synagogue, triggering riots between Jews and blacks] DC Milestone Media 3
Frieda Goren Frieda Goren supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[Static's girlfriend/partner] DC Milestone Media, etc. 74
Rabbi Kelman supporting character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D Jewish rabbi
[helped Static quell riot between blacks and Jews] DC Milestone Media
unnamed black pastor supporting character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D Protestant pastor
[helped Static quell riot between blacks and Jews.] DC Milestone Media 1
Jean Hawkins Jean Hawkins supporting character
  black
[Static's mother]
DC Milestone Media 33
Sharon Hawkins Sharon Hawkins supporting character
  black
[Static's sister]
DC Milestone Media 61
Larry Wade Larry Wade supporting character
  black; Ernest Hemingway High School
[one of Static's best friends]
DC Milestone Media 22
Chuck Kane Chuck Kane supporting character
  Ernest Hemingway High School DC Milestone Media 8
Felix Felix supporting character
  Ernest Hemingway High School DC Milestone Media 12
Daisy Watkins Daisy Watkins supporting character
  black; Ernest Hemingway High School
[Static's girlfriend]
DC Milestone Media 41
Robert Hawkins supporting character
  black
[Static's father]
DC Milestone Media 40
Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway
(mentioned) 
supporting character real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Congregationalist (raised); Catholic (convert)
[met time-travelling Wolverine] DC Milestone Media, etc. 41

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=233&):

Static stops a violent confrontation between Jews and Blacks. Virgil is gaming with his friends and makes a bad move buy breaking a date with a girl named Daisy. Static races to another race riot. We hear mention of Commando X instigating these riots. Static is asked to speak at a rally to protest the racist statements of Commando X. Then the high school of Virgil is bombed. Virgil's friends argue over the validity of the ideas presented by Commando X. At a peace rally Commando X arrives.