User blog comment:Rassilon of Old/Young Justice spoilers at Comic-Con 2012/@comment-4698757-20120718233507/@comment-1038387-20120720073014

The main problem (for me) is that Milestone's Dakota City is unfit for a children's show, and so it was watered down. A lot.


 * TV Static: Whiny 15 year old, with one good friend and limited girl problems. Lives in Dakota, a town of adventure. Also, a dead mom.
 * DC Static: In character, pretty much like TV Static, except he rarely if ever shows up in Dakota City (or Dakota). Mainly written for people who've seen the TV series. Grossly mishandled by Felicia Henderson and Scott McDaniel.


 * Milestone Static:
 * Wisecracking comic book geek, with lots of references to comic book figures. How does he deal with the aftermath of the DC/Milestone crossover Worlds Collide? He buys Who's Who.
 * He has a small clique of friends, and because on of them is the most popular girl in school (who's the only one to know his secret), Virgil's girlfriends (Daisy and Madison) are jealous of her (and suspect more between them). His father works all the time, his mother has to get him off his lazy butt
 * Gang violence, ethnic tension, teen sexuality, bullying, poverty. Real world problems, far beyond the level of after school specials we saw in the TV series. You don't get much better than "Louder than a Bomb" or "Between a Rick and a Hard Place".

It's a common complaint about Milestone characters, really: if you take them out of Dakota City, you take away their magic.