I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but I thought it was worth mentioning. Dwayne was the guy that wrote those early '90s Prince comic books.

http://www.comicbookresou...p;id=30969

I'm not sure old he was but he was much too young to die.

D Troit Duff was NOT that old.

RIP

wasn't he only in his early 40s? the cause of death is unknown. that's always scary when someone appears in good health and then something like this happens.

gotta love this

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Oh, no! Damn, this bums me out. Rest in peace, Dwayne. Really sorry to hear this. His Milestone Media work in the early '90s was really good stuff and made a huge impact on me. I thought Icon was the bomb. I absolutely loved it.

Very sad.

Did he draw my avatar?

Efan said:

Oh, no! Damn, this bums me out. Rest in peace, Dwayne. Really sorry to hear this. His Milestone Media work in the early '90s was really good stuff and made a huge impact on me. I thought Icon was the bomb. I absolutely loved it.

Very sad.

I have the first few Icon comic books. Those were really good.

HotGritz said:

gotta love this

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Dwayne didn't write that one. He wrote Alter Ego:

Rest in peace.

dannyd5050 said:

Did he draw my avatar?

No, that was Brian Bolland who is still alive and well. Dwayne was a writer not an artist.

Here's a youtube video of him:

OMG! I am so sorry to hear that. He was a fellow Pisces. He passed just days after his 49th birthday. He was so young.

RIP, Mr. McDuffie.

Being a comic book reader and going to the conventions over the years I have met and conversed with Dwayne many times so I am really sadden by this news. He was one of the coolest people that I would meet with every year at the Comic con. And even on the initial meeting he acted as if we had known each other for years. Much love to him and his family.

rialb said:

dannyd5050 said:

Did he draw my avatar?

No, that was Brian Bolland who is still alive and well. Dwayne was a writer not an artist.

Here's a youtube video of him:

This is something that I remembered cause while he was writing the Justice League comic I went on a message board and read some of these kinds of ignorant protests from some readership. Couldn't believe it but I knew that it existed. Hate even black characters being on "their" comic book teams. It turned me off of message boards because it made me angry and I had kind of stop going to comic conventions for a few years now cause I would be rubbing shoulders with some of these same imbeciles. Sad and some of that some stuff exists on these boards with the high esteem the members of the Revolution get as opposed to members of the NPG get. Just as some feel that without those same certain members of the Revolution that Prince cannot write a song or make music like he used to.

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thats too bad. Comics have lost a couple good people that last few years (Cockrum comes to mind). I dug his concept for a Fantastic Four headed up by Black Panther and Storm, which lasted for a minute.

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emesem said:

thats too bad. Comics have lost a couple good people that last few years (Cockrum comes to mind). I dug his concept for a Fantastic Four headed up by Black Panther and Storm, which lasted for a minute.

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yes I loved those issues even though I knew it was only temporary. He was a fantastic writer and I loved his work on the Justice League animated series cause it set the standard in my opinion on how to make a comic based series right with the seriousness of the material and relate to the comic book world as well. He will most definitely be missed.

Really sad

sextonseven said:

HotGritz said:

gotta love this

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Dwayne didn't write that one. He wrote Alter Ego:

Cool, thanks! I thought he wrote both.

Jakeasaurus said:

This has nothing to do with Prince or his music

Except for the obviousness of the Prince comic book.

McDuffie's death is a bit odd because it coincided with the release of the All Star Superman DVD that he was involved with.

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He was one of the most eloquent writers in comics. I can't believe he's gone.

oh damn! he was a good guy.

rialb said:

UPDATE 1:25 PM PST: CBR has learned that McDuffie died from complications due to a surgical procedure performed Monday evening.

Yikes! Postoperative complications are just as frightening as the surgery itself. His health could have been compromised because of unsanitary conditions, shoody surgery, internal bleeding, and so forth. Ask for a second opinion or alternative before committing to surgery.

Identity said:

rialb said:

Yikes! Postoperative complications are just as frightening as the surgery itself. His health could have been compromised because of unsanitary conditions, shoody surgery, internal bleeding, and so forth. Ask for a second opinion or alternative before committing to surgery.

Wow!! This really blows!!! He's been doing animated work for a long time now as well. A LOT of it was in the DCAU, which I'm a very big fan of!! So sad.

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Rest in Peace, Dwayne McDuffie

Los Angeles Times

February 24, 2011

Link

Dwayne McDuffie, a highly respected comic book and animation writer who was a co-founder of Milestone Media, a landmark company that created a multicultural comics line that introduced black superheroes such as Hardware and Static, has died.

He was 49.

McDuffie died Monday, a day after his birthday, of complications after undergoing emergency heart surgery at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, said Gary Miereanu, a publicist for Warner Home Video.

As a comic book writer, McDuffie had stints working on DC's "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight" and "Justice League of America," and for Marvel's "Fantastic Four."

As a television writer, story editor and producer for animated series, he had credits on "What's New, Scooby-Doo?," "Teen Titans," "Static Shock," "Justice League," "Ben 10: Alien Force" and "Ben 10: Ultimate Alien."

He also wrote the screenplay for "All-Star Superman," an animated film released Tuesday by Warner Home Video, and the second of three he wrote for the series, "DC Universe Animated Original Movies."

"Dwayne McDuffie left a lasting legacy on the world of comics that many writers can only aspire to," Dan DiDio, co-publisher of DC Entertainment, said in a statement.

"He will not only be remembered as the extremely gifted writer whose scripts have been realized as comic books, in television shows and on the silver screen, but as the creator or co-creator of so many of the much-loved Milestone characters including Static Shock.

"The industry has lost a true talent."

McDuffie launched his career in 1987 as a special comics editor for Marvel Comics.

At Marvel, he wrote for Spider-Man and other major characters and co-created the limited series Damage Control, about a firm that repairs the property damage caused by battles between superheroes and super-villains.

In 1992, two years after leaving Marvel to freelance full time as a comic book writer, McDuffie co-founded Milestone Media, whose comic books were distributed by DC Comics.

When he was a child in Detroit, McDuffie recalled in a 1996 interview with the Detroit Free Press, "there were only two comic strips that had black leading characters. When we got together to form our company, there were still only two — 20 years later. We felt there should be more diversity."

In addition to celebrating diversity, the Free Press reported that McDuffie also wanted to subtly teach important lessons and values, as well as having his characters confront the kind of problems faced by his readers.

"I try to put superheroes in situations where being strong, or being able to fly or fight aren't the answers," McDuffie said. "We've dealt with teen pregnancy, abortion, racism and anti-Semitism. Being able to hit somebody harder doesn't help you deal with that."

McDuffie, however, did not apologize for the violence in his scripts. "If you're talking about the world, you're going to be talking about violence," he said.

Tom Brevoort, Marvel's senior vice president for publishing, told The Times on Wednesday that McDuffie "definitely championed bringing a more multicultural and [inclusive] approach to comics."

Brevoort, who had worked with McDuffie, described him as forthright, direct and honest.

"He put his money where his mouth is, which is to say the things he believed in were reflected in his work and reflected in how he conducted himself," Brevoort said.

Born in Detroit on Feb. 20, 1962, McDuffie attended the Roeper School, a school for gifted children in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills.

He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan in 1983 and attended film school at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

In 2003, McDuffie shared a Humanitas Prize for "Jimmy," a "Static Shock" script about gun violence in schools.

He is survived by his wife, Charlotte; and his mother, Edna McDuffie-Gardner.

Too young to die.