The Official Flash thread

[Assassin]

Flash's yellow because it;s the color of the lightning bolts on his costume. Right?

 

[Tron Bonne]

I'm really not sure why they are colored that way, maybe that's it. And, to be clear, I'm only going by what I've heard and read here from others, since I'm not reading the mini. Though, I'm pretty sure Zoom was utilizing another Speed Force of a different color from what I know of it

 

[Assassin]

its just the costume, like smallvilles red blue blur

 

[Tron Bonne]

I don't watch Smallville so I don't get the analogy. You mean that it wasn't two Speed Forces, but just that the part Barry was in adapted to his color, and the part Zoom was in adapted to his color? I guess that makes sense, but did they do that with the other speedsters? Was the part Max in white, for example?

 

[Flash Facts]

Teardrop is correct. The red speed force is the "negative" speed force from which Thawne gets his powers.

 

[Assassin]

I'm making **** up as i'm going.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Story of your life, right?

 

[Assassin]

no, just now cuz i refuse to believe this bull ****. **** BARRY ALLEN!

 

[bored]

Haw haw. Tremble at the continuity-changing awesomeness that is Geoff Johns.

 

[Kurosawa]

Jay>Barry

Jay > Barry...and the rest of them for me.

I'll always see Wally as KF because I'm old and that's what I grew up with, plus I hated COIE. Could care less what they do now. Not that a guy Wally's age has any business being kid-anything.

IMO, Wally's KF costume was better than Barry's Flash outfit. One of the most awesome costumes ever, right up there with Ray Palmer's Atom costume.

 

[BlackLantern]

no, just now cuz i refuse to believe this bull ****. **** BARRY ALLEN!

Im sure he feels the same way about you

 

[NightBeetle]

GEOFF JOHNS PRIME: "Earth One," "Blackest Night" & More

Zev Hurwich (cool name) has been a fan of your work for quite some time and has been diligently following "The Flash: Rebirth" and "Blackest Night." However, there was one thing that really troubled him with "The Flash: Rebirth" #5: How the heck do speedsters use superspeed to change their costumes?
He wants to know why you put that in the issue and why the Flashes couldn't have waited a little bit and made their costumes in a more normal fashion?

If you look at Wally West's past, Grant Morrison and Mark Millar introduced the concept that the Speed Force was more than just speed. It can also be used for things like weaving a new uniform. It was seen in a story that Grant and Mark did when Wally couldn't walk for a while. During that story, Wally mastered the ability to craft a new uniform out of the Speed Force which enabled him to run, and then from then on he had that power. And that was kind of the first inkling that the Speed Force was more than just gasoline.


I wanted to take that concept and explore it further. I always thought of the Speed Force as if it were this layer, kind of like the fluid in your joints that allows your bones to move together, and if you think of that as the Speed Force, it's this fluid between the now and the time stream. It allows the two to co-exist, because the way time exists, it's not just a line, it's a sphere. So that fluid coats that sphere and the sphere is the Speed Force. And that sphere touches all reality and it's full of everything, it's full of ultimate speed, moving through reality, because time is all relative and it's full of all scientific knowledge. It's all knowledge of all eras.
It's just one giant Flash Fact. And at the same time, when Wally creates these uniforms, it gives him a burst of energy. So right there at that moment, I felt like they were about to get a second wind. They were all regrouping, they were all together and it was the right time for Wally to kick it up and kind of show Barry a trick he didn't know. Barry's not going to be able to figure out how to do that trick. He's going to try, but he just can't weave a uniform out of the Speed Force. He has to rely on his ring.

GLNick asked, with the new "Flash" ongoing, are you looking to start building towards a long-term arc such as "Blackest Night," or will you be focusing on more traditional five or six issue stories that won't necessarily overlap?

Both. It's going to have traditional arcs much like "Green Lantern has." But it builds to one giant arc that I'm working on. And when "The Flash" #1 hits, we'll know more about what that big arc really is.

Our call for questions happened before it broke that the Wally West co-feature you were doing with Scott Kolins had been dropped from "The Flash" ongoing. Why the change?

I explained this a little bit on my boards, but with all the re-thinking of the co-features, they want to keep "The Flash" at $2.99 because the price point is getting a little crazy. That doesn't mean that you won't see the story that Scott and I have been working on.

If you look at how "Green Lantern" rolled out and the universe grew, it'll be a little closer to that, but we just want to do it a little more organically and smarter. We want to make sure we're getting everything right.

Mark Bailie is a long-time fan and was wondering about a plot thread from your previous run on "The Flash."

"At the end of your run on "The Flash" Vol. 2, we see Captain Boomerang dropped into the future during The Flash/Reverse Flash battle, and we also have the re-animated Captain Boomerang telling Ashley Zolomon that Owen's mother is Meloni Thawne; thus making Bart Allen the half-brother of Owen Mercer/Harkness. Has this been touched upon at all, and if not, will this be an eventual topic in your new run on "The Flash?"

It has not been touched on at all. But yes, that happened.

Steven Schwab wanted to know why Barry Allen isn't surprised to find Jay Garrick living on the same Earth that he was born on when they were living on separate earths when he sacrificed himself during "Crisis on Infinite Earths?"
When everything was rewritten and rebooted in "Crisis on Infinite Earths," Barry Allen's memories went with everybody else's.

Frank W. wanted you to know that he recognized Paul Gambi from "The Flash" #239 on the last page of "The Flash: Rebirth" #5.

Thanks, I'm glad somebody recognized him. Gambi will be in "The Flash" in 2010. For those of you who don't know Gambi, he's a tailor in Central City. He was the guy who created the Rogues' uniforms, and one thing that I am really proud of that Scott Kolins and I did in "Rogues' Revenge" is the subplot where he gets the hell beat out of him by these fake Rogues and Heatwave confronts one of them and says, "Did Gambi make your uniform? Because he made mine and it can withstand insane temperatures."
He burns the other guy's costume right off because Gambi is the guy who makes their uniforms. And though his tastes are a little wacky, you can tell by their uniforms, he builds them to last and to take the kind of beating the Rogues usually take on a daily basis.
The Rogues will be a major force in the new "Flash" book.

 

[flash13]

Cool, so we will be seeing the Geoff Johns/Scott Kollins Wally West story eventually.

 

[NightBeetle]

The Flash: Brightest Day in 2010

AS: In meetings I’ve heard BRIGHTEST DAY referred to, offhand, as DCU: REBIRTH. Being the sleuth I am, this leads me to believe it’s more than just a concentrated series, right?


DD: Definitely. BRIGHTEST DAY isn’t just a single book. Like BLACKEST NIGHT, it’s an event that happens across the entire DC Universe, affecting a number of titles.
Following BRIGHTEST DAY #0, we’ll be bannering a number of new and ongoing series with BRIGHTEST DAY, which will let readers know these books are key to the entire BD story.


AS: Keeping my detective hat on, since Geoff is writing BRIGHTEST DAY and we announced he’d be writing a new FLASH ongoing coming right around the same time…

DD: Correct. We’ll be launching the new FLASH ongoing series, by Geoff and Francis Manapul in April with a BRIGHTEST DAY banner, and there will be several more titles utilizing it come May and June.With this book, Geoff and Francis are really bringing Barry Allen back into the spotlight and cementing him as the premiere Flash in the DCU in his own monthly. It’s no secret that I’ve been waiting a long time to se this. I’ve always been a huge Barry fan, and I can say that Geoff and Francis are reinvigorating him as a character in much the same way Geoff did with Hal Jordan. Should be fun.

AS: You mentioned other titles?

DD: Yup.


AS: Alright Source readers, swing back in an hour for more BRIGHTEST DAY news. It’s a busy Monday!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

So I guess, either by coincidence or design, the DC universe and the Marvel universe will both be getting a bit brighter and going back to superheroic basics with Brightest Day and The Heroic Age this year, respectively. That's good.

Cool, so we will be seeing the Geoff Johns/Scott Kollins Wally West story eventually.

I'm looking forward to it.

 

[SouLeSS]

What's this about different colors of the speed force?

And why does it seem like Assassin is tripping balls through 90% of his posts? Tripping balls or piss drunk.

 

[Tron Bonne]

What's this about different colors of the speed force?

In Rebirth it's been revealed there's now more than one Speed Force, a Red and a Yellow one thus far in that mini

 

[NightBeetle]

I can tell you that Batman Brave and the Bold Season 2 will feature Firestorm, Captain Marvel, Omacs, and more Flashes than you can count on one hand! Oh My! More Silver Age shenanigans after the jump.

James: There’s also a Flash legacy show with Zoom. Anyone who knows Flash will recognize all the Flashes.

Wally, Barry, Jay?

Tucker Nods.

Link

 

[Nightwing 52]

The Flash: Brightest Day in 2010

Beautiful.

 

[Anubis]

Pfft, some CSI. He's totally f**king up the crime scene.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It'd be funny if Barry shows up as the Flash, investigates the crime scene and corrects some assumptions the other CSIs make, then runs off and returns as Barry just in time to hear the cops griping about the "new" Flash. "Who does that guy think he is? Keystone's Flash at least lets Chyre and his boys do their job."

 

[yenaled]

I like how Barry is going "**** Yo Yellow Tape".

 

[BrianWilly]

I think Barry should intentionally try and be the worst CSI ever as the Flash, and then return to being a decent one as Barry. For his secret ID, y'know, kind of like reverse-Superman.

 

[NightBeetle]

Blackest Night: Flash #2 Preview

Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins continue this must-have BLACKEST NIGHT tie-in! The Flashes find themselves more tangled into Nekron's ultimate plan than they could ever have imagined. Meanwhile, it's a well-known fact that Captain Cold hates running. But when the Rogues of the past rise to claim those that still survive, he has no choice!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm way more excited for Captain Cold to see his dead sister again than I should be.