Milestone Media is a comic book company made to showcase lots of black superheroes in an attempt to overcome stereotypical portrayals in popular media. It is mostly read by pasty white children. They are a subsidiary of DC Comics. In Dakota City, everybody is just as angry and punchy and aggressivey as they are in the DC Universe, but everybody is black so it's 'sensitively dealing with racial issues' instead of just regular violence for fun.