DC Comics & August 2021 Solicitations Spoilers: Milestone Returns Across 3 Titles!

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DC Comics and August 2021 Solicitations Spoilers follows.

Milestone Returns Across 3 Titles!

Solicitation and covers below.

Hardware: Season One #1
written by BRANDON THOMAS
art by DENYS COWAN AND BILL SIENKIEWICZ
cover by MATEUS MANHANINI
ON SALE 8/10/21 $$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC 1 of 6
“old school” card stock variant cover by DENYS COWAN
$4.99 US
“new school” card stock variant cover by BILL SIENKIEWICZ
$4.99 US
1:25 card stock variant cover by RICARDO LOPEZ ORTIZ
$4.99 US

Curtis Metcalf was the brightest shining star of Alva Industries, a brilliant scientist mentored by Edwin Alva since childhood…until the failures of Alva technology at the “Big Bang” disaster threatened to destroy the company, and Alva needed a scapegoat. Now Curtis is on the run from the Dakota police department…but a man as smart—and paranoid—as Curtis takes precautions. With a nearly indestructible suit of armor and remarkable inventions that he never handed over to Alva, Curtis stands determined to do much more than clear his name…he’s going to take the fight back to Alva himself!

Writer Brandon Thomas (Future State: Aquaman, Excellence) is joined by Hardware’s co-creator and Milestone founder Denys Cowan to open a legendary new chapter in the story of the Milestone Universe’s most complicated man! Is a better world on his mind? Or just a world built for him?

Icon & Rocket Season One #2
written by REGINALD HUDLIN
art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE AND ANDREW CURRIE
cover by TAURIN CLARKE
ON SALE 8/24/21
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
2 of 6
Card stock variant cover by DOUG BRAITHWAITE $4.99 US

Who is the mysterious Xiomara? She’s an attorney with a unique set of skills…and if you’re Raquel “Rocket” Ervin, she’s who you want in your corner when the United States government comes knocking on your door, asking questions about your friendship with the all-powerful alien known as Icon! A secret identity doesn’t get you far when every intelligence operation in the world is hunting you…

Static (Season One) #3
written by VITA AYALA
art by CHRISCROSS AND NIKOLAS DRAPER-IVEY
cover by KHARY RANDOLPH
ON SALE 8/17/21
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
Card stock variant cover by NIKOLAS DRAPER-IVEY
$4.99 US
The government believes the super-powered teenage “Bang Babies” of Dakota are out of control…and they’re too dangerous to be allowed on the streets! When his classmates start disappearing, Virgil Hawkins wants to do the right thing and expose what’s going on…but is there any way to do so without Static getting snatched up.

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