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Post by golddragon71 on Aug 17, 2013 11:43:20 GMT -5
I really have to say that after five Years of CASTLE I'm done to death with the Unsolved Mother's Murder storyline.
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Post by golddragon71 on Jul 23, 2013 23:05:49 GMT -5
Is upon us once again. With the conclusion of Chain Lightning Wally and Barry have effectively teamed up and defeated the machinations of Cobalt Blue. In the Life Story of the Flash this was supposed to be Wally's Last great adventure with his soon to be sacrificed Uncle. However, this actually became the first of several new adventures and trials Wally would share with Barry Allen. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this was a secret catalyst that led to the Return of Barry Allen.* I really liked this storyline for the most part. Although the Angela Margolin character reminded me too much of Patty Spivot and i kind of started wondering whatever happened to Patty in the first place? (now I'm wondering: When Patty returned, what happened to Angela?!?) *Of Course, by the time this storyline had concluded I had already decided that all the elements were in place to restore Barry to full-time operational status in the DCU (In fact Dark Flash's costume was so similar to TV Barry's that I half-considered that Dark Flash might Actually be Barry Allen (either our Barry or a Barry from an alternate timeline.)
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Post by golddragon71 on Jun 26, 2013 14:26:30 GMT -5
Is kinda Quiet this month. Truth to tell, there hasn't been much going on the last few weeks! While Comixology has been picking up on the Steel age Superman, (1997-2003) They've been sleeping at the wheel as far as Flash is concerned. I'm not criticizing them mind you, it's just the way events occur! Still, They always seem to time these hiatus' at the worst possible times. we're right at a major point in the Chain Lightning storyline and all of a sudden we hit DEAD STOP!!!
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Post by golddragon71 on Jun 25, 2013 22:41:29 GMT -5
The Boots look kind of like the ones on the old Total Justice/JLA Figures
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Post by golddragon71 on Jun 20, 2013 11:27:41 GMT -5
hmmm red hair, goggles, western bandit style mask,.....
I like it!
could this be Wally from Young Justice?
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Post by golddragon71 on May 25, 2013 12:04:48 GMT -5
Just Got the DCUC Reverse Flash
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Post by golddragon71 on May 21, 2013 23:29:31 GMT -5
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Post by golddragon71 on May 19, 2013 0:02:00 GMT -5
And as of Friday Wally is Sold Out! Man! Even the most hotly anticipated JLUs didn't sell out ion two freakin days!!! Something tells me Wally's price tag is gonna skyrocket in no time flat!
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Post by golddragon71 on May 17, 2013 11:48:48 GMT -5
Here's my own spin on the cover Captions and dialogue taken from FLASH (1987-2009) #79 pg 32
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Post by golddragon71 on May 16, 2013 8:23:30 GMT -5
uh oh! I hope everyone who wanted one got to order it i just went to the site a few minutes ago and found this instead: Usually when I see a page like this it means the old site is dead and gone never to return (on the other hand I did get a shipment of figure email with tracking number so all is not completely lost! Hoping this is only temporary.
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Post by golddragon71 on May 15, 2013 10:28:04 GMT -5
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Post by golddragon71 on May 5, 2013 20:52:21 GMT -5
Funny sisenote my nephew was playing on DC Universe Online and he encountered the Top for the First time (Dillon usually hangs out in Metropolis a few Blocks north of Centennial Park)
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Post by golddragon71 on May 3, 2013 2:02:57 GMT -5
I hadn't even noticed that Top had been erased i just figured they hadn't gotten to him yet.
as to the Wally vs Barry sitcuation I really don't see why it has to be One or the other. Superman has had several titles as has Batman There's no reason DC can't come up with a second Flash title devoted to Wally's adventures in Keystone City (ie: the pre new52 proposed Speed Force or, Flash Family...or All-Flash or any other name that could be differentiated slightly so that Barry's Title "The Flash" could be the flagship Speedster comic with the secondary one being about Wally, Jay's solo adventures on Earth 2 a New52 version of Max Mercury perhaps etc.....) As I said on Facebook, I'm sick of all this Either/or crap! there's more than enough room for two Flashes in the DCU the only problem is finding someone who has the imagination to realize it. (On the other hand this board seems to have plenty of members with more than adequate imagination (far more so than DC's current powers-that-be seem to have!)
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Post by golddragon71 on Apr 29, 2013 12:34:50 GMT -5
So does Barry it seems! lol posted this on the SppedForce.org's Facebook Page (the captions and dialogue are from Flash #75 April 1993)
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Post by golddragon71 on Apr 27, 2013 10:00:43 GMT -5
While I don't think TPTB at DC "hate" the fans, I do think that they've been unnecessarily dismissive of the tenured fans of the company who've been reading the books faithfully for the last 25-30 years.
That said, I do think it's to DC's detriment that they've kept Wally off the board as long as they have. Also I feel that Wally's re-integration could be pulled off without losing much of the elements that made him popular in the first place. Last week i think I came up with a pretty good proposal as to how this could be done.
short version: 1. Wally is a junior CSI under Barry (ala Greg Sanders under Gil Grissom.) 2: Barry gives Wally a chem analysis assignment which puts him at the rack of chemicals. 3:Weather Wizard starts whipping up storms 4: Barry fights WW and during the fight his Speed Force energies mix with WW's Storms. 5: Wally is Struck by Speed-Force infused Lightning during battle and given Super-Speed 6: Barry gives Wally an identical uniform to his and they (for a while at least) play at "Flash is so fast he can be at two places at once!" (besides Wally's an adult and there's already a Kid Flash present) 7: Wally's relationship with Linda can be maintained but we may have to lose Jai and Irey. 8: Wally maintains the same differences in powers and personality to what Barry had. a. Barry can Ghost through Walls by vibrating Wally can Vibrate but the Kinetic energy left behind causes said walls to explode. b. Barry is Mr. Slow and Methodical. Wally is not IMPULSE but he's very impatient and tends to barrell in headlong! c. Both have the Speedster's pause effect but While Wally's just let's him effect the existing environment, Barry can "see" all the effects of all changes made or unmade. 9: When It comes out that there are indeed two Flash's Wally Alters his costume slightly. (most likely to what he had prior to Flashpoint. at that point Barry's uniform reverts to Infantino design)
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Post by golddragon71 on Apr 26, 2013 23:21:10 GMT -5
Interesting... although (and I'm not trying to be Mr. Conspiracy theorist here) but there is a possibility that "Wally's name comes up in meetings because A: The fans keep asking about him and B: they mention him at meetings to decide "OK, if the fans ask, "what about Wally West?" what do we tell them?"
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Post by golddragon71 on Apr 25, 2013 14:40:36 GMT -5
They've been doing this in several mediums outside the comics lately. I first noticed it in DC Universe Online when I teamed up with Flash to beat Gorilla Grodd Barry starts acting like Wally when he mocks Grodd during the fight using a coo-ing parent to baby type sing-song voice. (The Rest of the time, his original voice made him come off as a joe Friday type cop. his newer voice is much younger and comes off as more Wally than Barry) Then in Injustice, Flash's arrival on a battle screen "Catch Me if you Can!" is very Wally in attitude.
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Post by golddragon71 on Apr 24, 2013 9:15:47 GMT -5
Well, no Angry rants this time guys. (Mainly because there haven't been any recent developments that have caused me to fly off the handle in a blood boiling rage.) The other day i got my new Metalix Flash symbol t-shirt I had to order it from a second party as Graphitti no longer carries them in stock. I wrote them a letter asking why but they have yet to respond So I'm happily wearing it as my "Wally-Flash" shirt Today Comixology finishes off the Wally West Exile storyline. (They never gave the storyline a proper name or a trade so call it what you will.) Wally has to make a deal with Neron to save Keystone from the Rogues and their power avatars but Linda has already beaten him to it. I'll let you guys read through and figure things out from there. at this point we're still not up to Chain Lightning Comixology had pre-empted Race against Time to do this storyline I've given up trying to guess ahead of them as it seems that when I think they'll go one way they do a complete 180 and head off in the opposite direction (who knows? next week they might just start running more Silver Age Flash books!) Now I'm sure some of you have seen my most recent post in the 52 Ways to Bring Wally Back thread and are wondering..." Has this guy been turned?!? does he now embrace the New52?!?" Short answer is no. What happened is that I saw a post on SpeedForce.org's facebook Wall showing a pro-Wally Fan wearing a T-Shirt that said Mark Waid was Right. Of Course, a shirt like this will draw out the most vehement detractors and their usual rhetoric of "Get Over it! Barry was the only Flash that Mattered..... Wally was nothing without Barry being there first!..... blah blah blah!" The primary post that made me sit up and develop the new idea was a Pro-Barry Fan saying that the only way Wally "Zealots" would be happy is if Wally came back at Barry's expense. I responded with this: Michael Kramer: I'm one of the most vocal Pro-Wally fans around and I've always said that NO ONE!! NOT. ONE. SINGLE. PERSON! Was as happy to have Barry Allen come back as Wally West was! and when Wally raised the Subject, ... So I'm sick of all this either/or crap! There's no ONE TRUE FLASH! Barry has been gone for twenty-five years or so our time so he does deserve a Lion's share in the spotlight Being the lead in the Flagship Flash title Makes sense. Maybe even re-number them so they recognize the original numbering from when Flash left off in '85 (or was it 86?) (Wally was gonna sit back and relax anyway he was going to concentrate on being a dad) Another aspect is, if they HAD to change things for the New 52 They COULD HAVE changed it so that both Barry and Wally could co-exist! there's no reason they couldn't have altered Wally's history the way they altered Barry's. They could have made Wally a young intern or "Lab-Rat" ala Greg Sanders when Barry got his powers Barry could have been Wally's Gil Grissom and when Wally was hit in the same kind of accident that made Barry the Flash it could have Made Wally another Flash not "Kid Flash" mind you Flash Mach 2 or something to that effect. Wally could have kept his relationship with Linda with only a few variants in how they got together and there's no reason he couldn't have met and become friends with dick Grayson at college or something.. My biggest gripe as a Flash fan from way back is that the only thing that's the same about Barry (since Flashpoint!) is the crew-cut, the job and the city (and he doesn't even have the job anymore!!) In the old days, Iris was the Love of Barry's life. patty was his co-worker, and his parents were alive and well. Now, Iris is barely a friend to Barry, Patty is his girlfriend, his Mom is dead, his dad's in prison and it seems his dad wasn't even his dad anymore! So Yeah, in My View, There's MORE than enough room for two Flash's in the same Universe (I'd go so far as to say there's Room for ALL THREE!!! But that's a rant for another time!) as Barry said in the linked pic above, THE MORE THE MERRIER!!!! As I warmed to the subject of Wally and Barry co-existing in the New 52 I started thinking about tricks they could play. like pretending there was in Fact, Just One Flash that was doing all the work when in reality there were two. (Having Wally adopt the exact same uniform as Barry to help with the trick) and also allowing them to have Wally and Flash appear together or have Barry and Flash appear together when someone were to get "too close' to unmasking the secret identities (It always puzzled me that Superman didn't call on Martian Manhunter more often for problems of this sort with Lois back in the Day) Now recent announcements in the big Three interviews about the New Reverse Flash show that Barry will be returning to the Crime Lab in short time. We May Yet have reason to Hope. (if Barry was stuck bartending the rest of his life that idea's down the drain) Well, that's it for this month's rant hope to see you next time!
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Post by golddragon71 on Apr 13, 2013 14:35:27 GMT -5
Ok So let's play this one by the New52's rules Barry and Iris aren't together, hence no Wally as Kid Flash. Wally needs a connection to Barry to be A Flash.
ok first thing we do is take a page from JL JLU and make Wally a Lab-Rat or intern at the Central City Crime Lab Barry is Gil Grissom to Wally's Greg Sanders (We could even throw in Wally's exchange with the crew cut boss from Flash and Substance Barry gives Wally some evidence to check out on a recent case (give Wally a trace or chem analysis expertise) and as Barry goes out to catch Weather Wizard Wally works at the "rack of Chemicals!" WW whips up a storm and with Barry using some of his newer tricks charges the lightning in the storm with Speed Force Energy. Wally is hit by said lightning and is thrown by the explosion after Barry stops WW he visits Wally in the hospital when the doctors tell Barry that Wally's healing faster than anyone ever should Barry goes to his young friend and realizing what has truly occurred and how he's responsible for it he comes clean to Wally and suggests that Wally become his Partner in protecting the Twin City's. Wally agrees and jumps the Bridge to join the Keystone PD on Barry's recommendation as one of their CSI's while Barry stays in Central. the two of them work their own cases and also team up when the rogues bounce back and forth between cities. To allow for the Five Year Crimp, Wally and Linda will still be together but not yet married and no kids as of yet (Sorry Jai and Irey fans!) Unlike Barry who kept it a secret from Iris/Patty for all those years, Wally tells Linda up-front about himself and but lwaits until Barry gives his go-ahead to fill her in on his Mentor's identity.
Edit: as I was driving to work it occurred to me to add another little twist Wally and Barry would wear identical uniforms so no one could tell that they're two different Flashes. Most will assume Flash is so fast that he can actually be in two places at once. The Flashes use this as an advantage and don't give any indication of the truth.
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Post by golddragon71 on Apr 5, 2013 11:43:15 GMT -5
I'm sad to hear of his passing Infantino was one of the Best artists of his era. God Speed Old Friend! R.I.P.
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