Milestone Comics heroes Hardware, Icon and Rocket return after a nearly 25-year hiatus with new creative teams in Milestone Returns #0 Infinite Edition, DC Comics has announced.
Denys Cowan, the original artist on Hardware during its first run in 1993, returns to the character with Bill Sienkiewicz. Hardware: Season One will be written by Brandon Thomas, and covers will be illustrated by Mateus Mahanini. Icon and Rocket Season One will be written by Reginald Hudlin and Leon Chills and illustrated by Doug Braithwaite. Taurin Clarke provides the covers. Director/producer Hudlin was executive producer for the animated series The Boondocks and had a run writing Black Panther for Marvel.
Originally offered during DC FanDome, Milestone Returns #0 was a 17-page reintroduction of the "Dakotaverse" heroes. The "Extended Cut" adds 24 pages, incorporating a modern take on how several of them gained metahuman powers during a police brutality protest that came to be known as "the Big Bang."
Hardware is genius scientist and inventor Curtis Metcalf, who uses self-made body armor and equipment against his foes. Icon is Arnus, a strange visitor from another planet stranded on Earth. Extraordinarily long-lived, Arnus uses the guise of lawyer Augustus Freeman IV, his own great-grandson. His partner Rocket is Raquel Ervin, a teenager from a poor section of Dakota who coaxes him to stop hiding his powers and help the city.
Written by Brandon Thomas and illustrated by Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz, with cover by Mateus Mahanini, Hardware: Season One will be available digitally Aug. 15.
Written by Reginald Hudlin and Leon Chills and illustrated by Doug Braithwaite, with cover by Taurin Clarke, Icon and Rocket: Season One will be available digitally June 27.
Milestone Returns #0: Infinite Edition is available now on participating digital platforms, with the print version available to purchase on May 25.
Source: DC