The Official Flash thread

[Karem-Knight]

 

[BigBlue1055]

I never really understood the need to bring back Barry. Like someone said on the previous page of the thread, to me and a good portion of today's readers, Barry Allen has been dead almost my entire life. And now to have both of them running around just seems duplicative and stupid. I liked having 1 old-Flash, 1 adult-Flash, 1 kid-Flash...now there are 2 adult-Flashes and it just messes that all up.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yes. Yes.

 

[yenaled]

Excellent work.

 

[Assassin]

A lovely pipe dream, but a pipe dream nonetheless. However many of us have ditched Flash: Rebirth, you know it's still selling somewhere in the top ten, probably near the top. Like it or not, the big 2 publishers know what they're talking about: events do sell.

I'm only buying it for my internet buddy Ethan Van Sciver. It's not that good, and i'm the biggest Johns fan on SHH

 

[MadVillainy]

 

[The Geek Vault]

I'm not a huge DC fan so out curiosity when did Barry die, what year?

 

[Paradox1]

its funny how people trash Allen but he's the Flash all others are based on.except Garrick who is the patriarch

 

[Tron Bonne]

I'm not a huge DC fan so out curiosity when did Barry die, what year?

'85, and it was truly an awesome death, probably the most well done death in comic history

 

[MadVillainy]

Great death

Crappy/unnecessary resurrection

 

[The Geek Vault]

Wow, again not big into DC, how did they bring him back?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Wow, again not big into DC, how did they bring him back?

He ran out of a chair -_-

To be fair, though, we don't know the full details as of yet. In Rebirth we know that someone has possibly summoned him back

 

[Anubis]

Ha, oh man, i've started a f**king movement.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

a glorious movement.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ha, oh man, i've started a f**king movement.

As one of the dudes from the Roots said to some guy I met in Georgia at a concert I just missed: "You's a prophet!"

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Would Barry suck less if he stopped being a "Flash" and got some other nickname(assuming he gets over this Grim Reaper business)?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

There's nothing wrong with Barry, really. I just don't see a need for him to come back and what I've read of Rebirth was mediocre at best. Johns is at his worst when his inner fanboy starts showing, and Flash: Rebirth is basically his inner fanboy posing nude in the middle of Times Square.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I hope a Bart fanboy(NOT Guggenheim, for the love of God!) writes a story about him soon.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, he's back and in the present again, so the possibility's certainly there.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Still kinda mad about how his return was handled. Would have totally missed it if not for somebody saying so in some thread. You'd think reading Flash, JSA, and TT would be enough to catch it

 

[cerealkiller182]

Would Barry suck less if he stopped being a "Flash" and got some other nickname(assuming he gets over this Grim Reaper business)?

I think the best place for Barry would to retire and catch up on lost time with Iris.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I think the best place for Barry would to retire and catch up on lost time with Iris.

I dunno, with the returns of Oliver Queen, Hal Jordan, Ray Palmer, and Billy Batson to their respective mantles, it sorta makes sense to bring back Barry.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I like this one.

 

[Karem-Knight]

There's nothing wrong with Barry, really. I just don't see a need for him to come back and what I've read of Rebirth was mediocre at best. Johns is at his worst when his inner fanboy starts showing, and Flash: Rebirth is basically his inner fanboy posing nude in the middle of Times Square.

This is exactly how I feel, the return of Barry really doesn't help the Flash books at all, to me it makes it more complicated. I mean in OYL we had Bart taking over the mantle, didn't work, then Wally comes back but his kids have been sped up in age, didn't work either. So they decide they need to do a complete turn around of the Flash books; arguably the best time for the Flash books (arguably) had been the Post Crisis era with Wally West.

Now I could go on for ages, but these problems listed could have simply been solved with brining Bart back as they did in LO3W, and using some sort of "it was the speedforce" de ageing of Wally's kids and go to things how they were pre Infinite Crisis. Instead we end up with Barry's return in Final Crisis (as one of the few who actually enjoyed Final Crisis, Barry's return was one of the main things that irked me, as well as the Batman situation) and by far the main significant heroic death of DC Universe history, the death of Barry Allen, was discarded for an even more convoluted mess in the Flash titles with, not two, not three but FOUR Flashes. Honestly, how does DC expect new readers to get into one of their most favoured heroes?

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I dunno, with the returns of Oliver Queen, Hal Jordan, Ray Palmer, and Billy Batson to their respective mantles, it sorta makes sense to bring back Barry.

When did he get back? Last I saw, the wizard was *****in him out in JSA.