DC should reboot Wildstorm when Milestone comes back.

They should come back hand-in-hand because both were companies with a heavy multicultural focus with editorial power radiating out of a Black (Milestone) and AAPI (Wildstorm) male point of view.

And as much as I love the work of Ellis, choosing him to helm Wildstorm was an absolute disservice to that heritage. Yes, WS was where many white British writers flourished, but the art direction that was so heavily influenced by Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders was lost.

And comics is a marriage of words and pictures, so tapping into a heavily British influence in both aspects without paying respects to the MASSIVE impact Lee and Portacio had on comics for an entire industry decade is absurd.

"So what would YOU do, Cheryl Lynn?" I am so glad you asked! You tear everything down to the bare structure and rebuild. Milestone shouldn't have the same voices we heard in the '90s and Wildstorm shouldn't have the same art.

Milestone should highlight black voices from THIS ERA. No offense to those who laid the groundwork, but racism in comics meant that TWO ENTIRE generations of black writers were nearly silenced. They need to be heard.

You cannot give us Public Enemy in an age of Noname (and to be quite frank, we never heard from the Dipset-era either because white men were being hired to define Blackness in comics instead.)

So you hire black writers from recent generations to bring you stories of what it means to be black today. Not as elders, but as those currently in these streets, raising families, building a future on the foundation so beautifully laid for us.

Milestone should once again be multicultural of course, but the editorial foundation of the books needs to be BLACK. Black, black, blackity black. Or else you are wasting everyone's time and exploiting our hypervisibility for a profit.

So that's one. For Wildstorm you do something very similar. The art direction MUST be helmed by younger Asian American and Pacific Islander artists. I'm not saying you should only hire those OF that background, but you must hire those influenced BY modern manga and komiks.

Now the wonderful thing about Wildstorm is the East-Meets-West aspect of the early books. After Choi (who doesn't get the respect he deserves for some solid '90s set-ups) left, the company went ALL IN on white British writers. And that marriage was lovely.

If WS wanted to have another British go-round, this time being a bit more diverse in the selection process, I'd be all for it. (Except for Voodoo. The next writer for Voodoo has to be a black woman--specifically ME--or I will be so mad.)

To sum up (and to keep you all from running off and saying that I said only Asian people can draw for Wildstorm or only Black people can write for Milestone when I NEVER SAID THAT), those two imprints had such an impact on comics history because of the cultural heritage...

...of a specific point in time that they were imbued with. If you bring them back as retreads or wholly new imprints instead of rebuilding worlds utilizing their methods, you aren't honoring what came before nor are you servicing those the imprints were created for.