Another crosspost from my Instagram! Original caption:
Black Superheroes for Black History Month!!!💥📖📚
Normally I split this type of post in two, one with characters I've already read and loved and one with characters I want to read in the future. But I haven't read too much DC, and BDS is still calling for a boycott against Marvel while the Captain America 4 movie plans to contain Sabra, a character who is Israeli propaganda personified, and I don't want to promote any Marvel characters while that is going on. So, we have a DC only edition. The only characters in this list that I've read at least one full book for are Connor, Duke, and Virgil, so I apologize if there's any incorrect information.
Listen I have even more thoughts and feelings 😩💙 thinking about that time dukes hair was in a ponytail (I think it was future state🤔 but like let my boi grow his hair out😭) the second I just wanted them to hold hands lol little more baby before they go full superhero.
Well in Virgil's case he's already a hero(season one Virgil is so baby 🥹)and Duke's had his first week of being Signal 🥺 and he needs a break. Also! Raquel and Augustus I was really in the mood to draw them 😄 being silly
Obviously, I couldn't talk about MD Bright's work without mentioning the Milestone imprint! In addition to being a co-creator of Icon and Rocket, he was also a big part of 1994's Worlds Collide event, in which the Milestone characters get to cross into the mainstream DCU and meet the Superman family! Shown here is the one-shot special, certain variants of which even included stickers, allowing fans to essentially construct their own cover scenes! Yep, it was the nineties alright... Rest in power, Mr. Bright.
Today we talk about an alien man named Arnus who was turned into a baby and raised on Earth as Augustus Freeman, and a human woman named Raquel Ervin who saw his powers and convinced him to become the superhero called Icon, with her as his sidekick Rocket.