What is it with DC Comics and The Flash ? On Monday amount the revelation that the September issue of his comic will be the first part of a storyline called “ This Was Your Life , Wally West . Then there was the late return of sixties Flash , Barry Allen . All this suggests that DC is about to forcibly hit the sack their current Fastest world Alive just a year after bringing him back from the deadened . Why ca n’t the turbulent newspaper publisher make up its collective mind about what to do with one of the first science - fiction superheroes ?
If September ’s The Flash # 244 does , indeed , commemorate the beginning of the end for Wally West – and the fact that that storyline is n’t by recently - annunciate fresh writer Tom Peyer suggests that that may be the causa , if his longterm plans are being cut short;regular Flash artist Freddie Williams II has already been harbinger to be returning to the Robin series – this will be the third relaunch of the Flash franchise ( and , indeed , may go to the third Flash type to take over the lead of the franchise ) in the last five years .
Of course , that new set - up did n’t take , much to Waid ’s confusion :
I do n’t know . You experience , I just think , in retrospect , the stars were not in alignment in a heap of ways . I kind of knew we were in trouble flop off the bat when I so loved Daniel Acuna ’s artwork . I so know it . And I was so unprepared for the insane volume of hate from the online biotic community about how much they just scorn his work on the title . I get it on at that point , I think , “ Oh god , we ’re in trouble . ” Once more , the on-line residential area has me question what I thought was safe . Which I should n’t get bechance , but it ’s hard not to do when the volume is that loud .
And at this moment in sentence , I just … in full term of superhero workplace , I sense frozen . I kind of … I feel like I ’m momentarily out of step with what fandom wants because I do n’t get it . The same voices that are squall that we gave Flash a wife and Thomas Kid and family , because they say that ’s not what Flash is , are the same people who are yell that they ’ve broken up Mary Jane and Peter Parker . “ How dare you take his family unit away ! ” I ’m like , hold off ! Wait ! What ? Which way of life is it ? So … growth and change good … or increase and shift bad ?
Change , as we now know , seems to be the only never-ending in the Flash enfranchisement . Or , at least , change back ; as Waid ’s new Flash Family series was flounder with fan , it was revealed that Wally West ’s own mentor Barry Allenwas being brought back to life 23 eld after his decease , as part of DC ’s Final Crisis outcome .
Will Barry take Wally ’s place ( And , as an away , does this entail that Bart would ’ve been accepted more as a Flash if he ’d had a “ y ” at the end of his name ? ) ? It ’s possible , and would correspond in with a more world-wide move at the publishing firm to return their comics to their eighties position quo ( See also : Resurrecting Hal Jordan , play the multiverse back , return the Justice League to a mixing of big names and c - level characters , consider that anyone want to show Batman And The Outsiders , etc . etc . ) … but that does n’t mean that it would be a good move . have Wally West as the Flash makes him unique in the DC line of characters ; while he may not be the only former teen sidekick to grow up , he is the only one to raise up and adopt the costume and title of their wise man on a permanent basis and be accepted by the fans in doing so . He becomes an everyman “ in ” for the reader , being someone who has also grown up with the superheroes and is as familiar with the clichés and trick of the trades as the fan themselves , while still being recognizable to kid who recognise him from the Justice League cartoons . Will all of that be thrown away by DC in party favor of the Silver Age nostalgia of having Barry back in the role , or is the title of the new storyline a braggy fake - out ? Expect to find out before the remainder of the year …
The Flash # 244[DC Comics ]
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