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Like a GIP, only with content
At long last, I have a Virgil/Richie icon to call my very own.
::looks at icon::
::evil pointy grin::
Go get him, Richie.
In case you don't recognise them, the boy sitting on the bed is Virgil Hawkins, AKA Static, teenaged superhero of Dakota City, USA (one of those DCU cities like Gotham, Keystone or Metropolis), and his best friend about to jump him is Richie Foley, AKA Gear, Static's partner in crime-fighting and all-around gayness. If you don't recognise them, you NEED to be watching Static Shock on Kids' WB.
Tomorrow morning, Saturday, 1 May, Kids' WB will air the all new episode "Linked" (season 4, episode 10). The preview episode description up at TVTome reads: "Static and Gear help a football star being blackmailed by Chainlink, a powerful metahuman."
Also, starting next Monday, 3 May, the weekday-afternoon Static Shock reruns will move from 3:30 to 3:00PM. Like the Saturday-morning episodes, these will air on your local WB station or affiliate; I recommend TVGuide.com for finding the WB station serving you (though not for much else; they typically do not list episode titles for upcoming episodes of WB cartoons).
For everyone playing the home game: Yes, the Static Shock cartoon is based on an excellent comic by the sadly now-defunct Milestone Comics (DC retains the rights to most or all Milestone characters), titled simply Static (and not to be confused with Static-X); and yes, the version of Richie in the comic, called Rick, was canonically gay.
The show doesn't take all the risks or, for lack of a better word, have all the "edge" of the comic, but it's still a damned good show. It tackles more issues than most kids' cartoons -- not that that's saying much -- and without getting preachy, except in the Very Special Episodes which they keep to one per season. (The first of these, "Jimmy," dealt with the issue of gun violence in schools in an impressively realistic manner and is prodigiously homoerotic-subtext-laden to boot.) I came for the quality writing, and stayed for the delightfully slashy vibe between Richie and Virgil, which makes up for occasional abyssmally bad episodes.
Highlights of upcoming reruns include:
Monday, 3 May, 3PM: "Hard As Nails" (3.1)
Guest-starring Batman, Alfred, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, when Static follows a lead to Gotham.
Wednesday, 5 May, 3PM: "Blast from the Past" (3.15)
Guest-starring Soul Power, an African-American hero with electrical powers from a previous generation (similar to DC's Black Lightning, AKA Jefferson Pierce); Soul Power has tremendous levels of subtext with both his former sidekick and their former arch-nemesis.
Tuesday, 11 May, 3PM: "Sons of the Fathers" (1.8)
This is the episode in which Virgil finally gets to go hang at Richie's house, Richie runs away from home, and possibly the gayest tag-line ever ends the episode.
Thursday, 13 May, 3PM: "The Big Leagues" (2.1)
The first of the now-numerous Batman guest appearances, as he and Toon!Tim the red, red Robin come to Dakota on the trail of the Joker, who also guest-stars.
Also, the most recent new Saturday-morning episodes are being rebroadcast on the following Friday afternoons, giving viewers who miss the new ep on the previous Saturday a second chance to catch it before the next new one. Now, if they'd just play the older reruns in order...
More complete schedule info here.
::looks at icon::
::evil pointy grin::
Go get him, Richie.
In case you don't recognise them, the boy sitting on the bed is Virgil Hawkins, AKA Static, teenaged superhero of Dakota City, USA (one of those DCU cities like Gotham, Keystone or Metropolis), and his best friend about to jump him is Richie Foley, AKA Gear, Static's partner in crime-fighting and all-around gayness. If you don't recognise them, you NEED to be watching Static Shock on Kids' WB.
Tomorrow morning, Saturday, 1 May, Kids' WB will air the all new episode "Linked" (season 4, episode 10). The preview episode description up at TVTome reads: "Static and Gear help a football star being blackmailed by Chainlink, a powerful metahuman."
Also, starting next Monday, 3 May, the weekday-afternoon Static Shock reruns will move from 3:30 to 3:00PM. Like the Saturday-morning episodes, these will air on your local WB station or affiliate; I recommend TVGuide.com for finding the WB station serving you (though not for much else; they typically do not list episode titles for upcoming episodes of WB cartoons).
For everyone playing the home game: Yes, the Static Shock cartoon is based on an excellent comic by the sadly now-defunct Milestone Comics (DC retains the rights to most or all Milestone characters), titled simply Static (and not to be confused with Static-X); and yes, the version of Richie in the comic, called Rick, was canonically gay.
The show doesn't take all the risks or, for lack of a better word, have all the "edge" of the comic, but it's still a damned good show. It tackles more issues than most kids' cartoons -- not that that's saying much -- and without getting preachy, except in the Very Special Episodes which they keep to one per season. (The first of these, "Jimmy," dealt with the issue of gun violence in schools in an impressively realistic manner and is prodigiously homoerotic-subtext-laden to boot.) I came for the quality writing, and stayed for the delightfully slashy vibe between Richie and Virgil, which makes up for occasional abyssmally bad episodes.
Highlights of upcoming reruns include:
Guest-starring Batman, Alfred, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, when Static follows a lead to Gotham.
Guest-starring Soul Power, an African-American hero with electrical powers from a previous generation (similar to DC's Black Lightning, AKA Jefferson Pierce); Soul Power has tremendous levels of subtext with both his former sidekick and their former arch-nemesis.
This is the episode in which Virgil finally gets to go hang at Richie's house, Richie runs away from home, and possibly the gayest tag-line ever ends the episode.
The first of the now-numerous Batman guest appearances, as he and Toon!Tim the red, red Robin come to Dakota on the trail of the Joker, who also guest-stars.
Also, the most recent new Saturday-morning episodes are being rebroadcast on the following Friday afternoons, giving viewers who miss the new ep on the previous Saturday a second chance to catch it before the next new one. Now, if they'd just play the older reruns in order...
More complete schedule info here.
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Static! I thought I was the only humanoid on the planet to watch Static! Or, watched, when it was still airing here. Sigh. Well.
[~Adam]
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The comic book was fantastic, too, if very different, but I imagine even more difficult to come by over there than it is here, hm?
I hope you get it again soon. With seasons 3 and 4. it's been getting gayer almost every episode; the most recent new ep had Virgil and Richie in matching tuxes at a charity event, where as near as I can figure out Richie was V's date.