static electricity. We all hate it, don't we? But we do love

static, aka static shock, aka Virgil Hawkins.

He is a teenage superhero, if you don't know,

who has electromagnetic powers

who fights crime in Dakota City,

one of my favorite vacation spots.

He has a quick wit.

He has a strong sense of justice and he navigates the challenges of being a hero and a high school student.

Now, if you are not familiar with this character, he was a part of a publishing imprint called Milestone Comics and the 90s was part of a big way for a lack of a better word of alternative comics you know that we've talked about the Crow previously.

We've talked about you know image pops off and then we get some kind of interesting stories

from the big two, Marvel and DC. So actually I want to ask you you know even incorporating

some of this independent film era as well of the early 90s what do you think

about this era of the early 90s that really push creators to want to put to create stories and characters that basically were outside the mold outside of of what DC and Marvel were doing.

Well, particularly if you look at,

we're gonna get really academic.

Right up for this episode.

Well, there's gonna be some deep stuff in this lesson,

but also a lot of this, this is a lesson about a high schooler, so it seems appropriate.

Absolutely. So if you kind of look at at least the 20th and the 21st century in terms of creativity cycles in mass media.

Every 20 years there is a huge independent movement.

So you're talking about the 1990s.

We'll go back about the 1990s,

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