BM: Is he a character you'd ever want to return to?
MW: "God, no," he said, and 40,000 Flash fans exhaled in relief. No. I got conned into coming back for the 2006 relaunch, and it was a disaster from start to finish. I like the stories we told, but I radically misjudged the pulse of the audience when I decided to do a FLASH book totally unlike my last run, when 20/20 hindsight would reveal that that was exactly what the audience wanted. Plus, I took a chance with incorporating his children by hyperaccelerating their ages (because I gotta tell you, infants are really dull to write), and that backfired. Our artist pulled out well after the last possible second, we scrambled to find a replacement, I loved him, fans were indifferent, and Marvel snagged him after two issues anyway. Oh, and once I committed to the project and we'd solicited the first issue, before even one script was finished every single promise that had been made to me to get me back aboard was reneged upon, so integrity and backbone demanded I quit on principle before the first issue even came out. The only reason I stayed six was because of my loyalty to my editor, who didn't deserve to be screwed.
Oh, and also, I'd run totally out of things to say. Just ask the internet.