Comments on: Review: The Flash #247

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:41:28 +0000

Jacin, I’m with you on this:

“If DC wants to revitalize the title, rather than bringing back a character that’s better left dead, why not just bring in another good writer to tell Flash stories with Wally as the titular character? Why do we always have to see some sort of stunt where someone else winds up taking over the mantle (see also: Batman, Captain America, etc.) … ?”

Wally is a much more interesting character than Barry ever was.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:16:21 +0000

I do think this worked better than the last “final issue” that Wally had, which was much too abrupt. I didn’t get a sense that he was retiring, though. That last page, with the whole West family running and carrying a suitcase, screamed “family vacation” to me. Plus there’s the fact that it all takes place before Final Crisis, which shows Wally running around with the Justice League long before everything falls apart.

By: Turks

Turks — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:17:33 +0000

mayb bart will take his place now so it makes room for static in the titans

By: Jacin

Jacin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:09:03 +0000

How about rather than “Wally’s not the Flash anymore, so [Insert another Flash here] is!” stories, we just do something crazy like, oh, I don’t know, put a quality writer back on the book … ?

Seriously. I used to love the Flash. I jumped in right before the build-up began for The Rogue War, when Mark Waid took over the title from Geoff Johns. The book made me sad I hadn’t discovered it sooner.

Then, we hit all of the turbulence with Infinite Crisis and One Year Later and the whole Bart-as-Flash nonsense (which I get, legacy character and all …) and everything just seemed to kind of be … well, mediocre.

If DC wants to revitalize the title, rather than bringing back a character that’s better left dead, why not just bring in another good writer to tell Flash stories with Wally as the titular character? Why do we always have to see some sort of stunt where someone else winds up taking over the mantle (see also: Batman, Captain America, etc.) … ?

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:24:13 +0000

I’ll take that bet.

I suspect that all of these relaunched titles will just be relaunched again in three or four years. Remember, The Flash reset itself out of Infinite Crisis, and that was barely four years ago, and when the book wasn’t working right, they killed Bart for effect.

We’ll have to see where it all goes, but I suspect that the idea of Barry returning as Flash isn’t going to be as interesting in the long run as they seem to think it will be…