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Static in Africa

Episode #28 (385-852) - Static in Africa
Original Airdate - February 8th, 2003

While visiting Africa in his secret identity, Static teams-up with African superhero, Anansi, to defeat African the villain, Osebo, before he blows up a dam.

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Media by Bird Boy and James Harvey
Review by Matt Zimmer		 Credits:
Supervising Producer Alan Burnett
Producer Denys Cowan, Swinton O. Scott III
Associate Producer Bobbie Page
Written by Dwayne McDuffie
Directed by [Uncredited]
Music by Richard "Wolfie" Wolf
Animation by Koko Enterprise Co., LTD.

Voices:
Phil LaMarr as Virgil Hawkins/Static
Jason Marsden as Richie Foley
Carl Lumbly as Anansi
Michael Jai White as Osebo
Michele Morgan as Sharon
Kevin Michael Richardson as Robert
Roscoe Lee Browne as Dr. Anokye
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Static visits Africa and teams up with hero Anansi the Spider.

Virgil and his family are vacationing in Africa and Robert is telling him about African history when they meet a professor studying archeology on a train. The train is board by Osebo the Leopard who takes a map from the professor to a lost city of gold when the local superhero Anansi the Spider shows up and saves the people on the train. Static puts a tracer on Osebo and waits for a chance to tell Anansi this.

When he meets Anansi he tells him about the tracer and that he is a superhero too. They follow the tracer to a dam which is on top of the gold that Osebo plans to destroy. Anansi and Static stop him. Static tells Anansi how good it is too have a black superhero to look up to and Anansi says Static is HIS hero.

This was a great episode. Anansi is a cool character and very funny as voiced by Carl Lumbly. I also liked the part where Static feels so comfortable in Africa because he isn't a black kid, just a kid. I learned a whole bunch of stuff about Africa that I didn't know before. I also liked the part where Static tells Anansi that he wishes there was a black superhero back home but I have to wonder how he could have forgotten about Green Lantern. As it stands this was a great character piece for Static and I was impressed at how well done the episode was.

The animation was fine here and I didn't notice any mistakes. The episode looked great. I liked the episode a lot because of the insights it gave to Virgil and his family.

Story: ****1/2
Animation: ****
Average: ****1/2
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