Big Bang (comics)
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The Big Bang is a Milestone Comics event published by DC Comics, which acts as the origin for several characters featured in their comics. The event was first chronicled in Blood Syndicate #1 by Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Denys Cowan, and Static #1 (April 1993) by Dwayne McDuffie and Robert L. Washington III.
The Big Bang is a significant event in the fictional history of Milestone Comics, in which many of the superheroes and supervillains of Dakota City - including Static and the Blood Syndicate - got their powers. The concept was created by Christopher Priest and inspired by urban legends about chemicals being added to Tahitian Treat soda to sterilize black people.[1]
The event took place on Paris Island, which had long suffered from heated gang wars. In 1993, the leaders of each gang decided to settle their grievances in a massive confrontation which the police soon learn of. Mayor Thomasina Jefferson ordered the police to spray every gang member present with an experimental tear gas laced with a radioactive marker that would allow the police to track the participants down later.
The gas contained a mutagen called "quantum juice", which killed most exposed to it and gave the survivors superpowers. The survivors were dubbed "bang babies". The members of two gangs - the Paris Bloods and Force Syndicate - formed the core of the Blood Syndicate, a gang of bang babies who claimed Paris Island as their turf.