Published by DC Comics 2012. $16.99 cover price. Full Color. 192 pages. Softcover. Graphic Novel Trade Paperback. Collects STATIC SHOCK 1-8 (DC, 2011 new 52 series). Written by Scott McDaniel and John Rozum. Art by Scott McDaniel. "The brilliant, yet slightly awkward high school student Virgil Hawkins transforms into the cocky electromagnetic hero Static! A mysterious tragedy forces the Hawkins family to relocate from Dakota to New York City and Virgil must start all over again in a new high school, as well as a new internship at S.T.A.R. Labs. But is he ready to take on the new villains who lurk in New York City's underworld?"