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Please help #comics #writer and #artist William Messner-Loebs and his wife stay in their home. Illness and injuries have left them in dire financial straits, and they're facing eviction.
His run on #TheFlash is one of my favorites. The character work on #WallyWest from when he started to when he finished was amazing, and he made me think about a lot of social issues as a teenager that I might not have encountered until later.
Link: “Heroes In Crisis” vs “Unstoppable Wasp” and a Look at Mental Illness
“Heroes In Crisis” vs “Unstoppable Wasp” and a Look at Mental Illness
I feel like I ought to write something for @SpeedForce
about what’s going on with Heroes in Crisis and The Flash, but unlike anger, severe disappointment just isn’t motivating.
Fortunately, Ed wrote something better than I could have, and broadened it to the way Heroes in Crisis is handling mental illness as compared to The Unstoppable Wasp.
“Heroes In Crisis” vs “Unstoppable Wasp” and a Look at Mental Illness
I remember when Wally West’s fans were worried that he’d get the “Kyle Rayner treatment.”
We should have been so lucky.
Photo taken at: Wondercon
#KidFlash #cosplay spotted today at @wondercon
I’m not big on audiobooks, but I picked up a DC Comics-related Humble Bundle a few weeks ago and I #amreading The Flash: Stop Motion by Mark Schultz. It’s kind of odd listening to a “Graphic Audio” adaptation of a prose novel based on a character who usually appears in visual media, but the full cast, sound effects, and music help to make up for the lack of actual visuals that I’ve found tends to hamper prose stories about superheroes.
#TheFlash #comics
I read the book when it came out in 2004, and I’ve forgotten enough for it to be more-or-less “new.” It’s set during the Wally West/Keystone City era when the Flash’s identify was still public knowledge and he worked with Chyre & Morillo.
There are a few continuity issues that bugged me at the time (a lot of the story hinges on Iris & Wally being blood relatives, for instance) that don’t anymore, though I still have trouble with the opening scene where he’s treading air to “fly” w/the JLA.
The ideas about the nature of super-speed, the speed force, the metagene, and ties to quantum physics still hold up, and would be fascinating to explore further (though they might overpower the character).
So far the audio adaptation works well, but my car’s sound system doesn’t handle the deliberately confusing battle sequences very well. Headphones might work better. And some of the conversations that work in print go on way too long in audio.
I can’t remember two things about New 52 Wally West:
1. Did they confirm his mother died in Forever Evil, or is she still presumed dead?
2. He didn’t know Daniel was his father. Did he think Rudy was? So before classic Wally vanished, did they think they were half-brothers?
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Wally I has history w/the Titans & Iris in this timeline from before Kadabra grabbed him. Wally II doesn’t remember him, but if he thought Rudy was his dad, they would’ve at least known of each other as half brothers, not cousins, even if he lived w/his mom.
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I imagine naming Rudy might’ve been a convenient fiction since Daniel was so young, but it would still have made for awkward family interactions, since Rudy was married and already had a kid. It really makes me wonder what arrangements were made among the Wests & Wally’s mom.
Also: Wally 2 was really upset that his father never acknowledged him as his son. But Daniel visited him. If he grew up thinking Rudy was his dad, but never met Wally 1, he must’ve felt abandoned by his dad.
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Looked it up: DCU Rebirth established the 2 Wallys had never met. Flash #9, they meet both masked & unmasked, but Wally 1 didn’t give his name. Also Wally 2 learns Daniel was his dad. Sins of the Father established Daniel was around, just pretending to be his uncle…and in The Lazarus Contract, Wally 2 learns who Wally 1 is. So that brings us to the Flash Annual status where both Wallys & Barry know who they all are.
But I still wonder about the West family dynamics.
I stopped when I got to #20, but didn’t see Wally 2 confronting Iris about her hiding Daniel’s relationship to him. It probably happened after he argued with Barry, but I didn’t see it.
Unspoken: how much did race factor into Wally 2 never meeting the West side of his family?
Considering Wally West’s favorite cereal is canonically Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs (a 1990s-era Calvin & Hobbes reference), this seems appropriate.
Photo taken at: Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con
TV-style Wally West Flash cosplay at #lacomiccon. More photos at flickr.com/kelsonv
#cosplay #theflash #kidflash #wallywest #lacomiccon16 #lacomiccon2016 #comikaze
Oh my god, dude I love this. It’s like a plot out of the silver age.
[Yeah, the Silver Age was definitely the inspiration for this story! There are plenty of winks and nods to it throughout the story, not the least of which is the dedication to John Broome. –Lia]
I really appreciate Morrison’s work on Flash and JLA because for him, bringing back the Silver Age didn’t mean just bringing back specific characters, it meant bringing back the creativity, the wild and madcap ideas, the storytelling sense that anything is possible.
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Photo taken at: Wondercon Anaheim Convention Center
#TBT Flash & Quicksilver #cosplay at last year’s @wondercon. We’ll be posting photos from this year’s convention over the weekend!
#theflash #quicksilver #wondercon #jaygarrick #danicawilliams #flashbeyond #wallywest #dccomics #marvelcomics #xmen
#TBT Three Flashes on vacation at #SDCC 2013.
#cosplay #theflash #jaygarrick #barryallen #wallywest #vacation #casualday #flashcosplay #comiccon #kidflash #ThrowbackThursday
Kid Flash has a whole new attitude at #WonderCon
#cosplay #kidflash #theflash #wallywest #comics #dccomics #wca2015 #flashcosplay
#TBT Finding a classic Flash comic at #WonderCon 2013. #comics #dccomics #theflash #barryallen #wallywest #weatherwizard #silverage #ThrowbackThursday
Sure, #WHPtakebackflash is about the camera flash…but it seemed like a double meaning was appropriate.
Week in review at our blog: Futures End reveals, Bombshell cover, upcoming comics and more.
![I work near an airport. Every time I see a Wally Park shuttle, I think of this scene. [K]](https://socialposts.kvibber.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1381109404.jpg)
No wonder we haven’t seen Wally West since Flashpoint. The New 52 moved his hometown to another country.
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Sequential Awesome: An Open Letter To DC Creative, RE: Wally West
An Open Letter to DC Creative, RE: Wally West,
I’d like this to be professional and not bring emotion into it, but, well, I can’t do that. You’re effectively brushing a character that’s shown more growth and publishing success than his replacement (and predecessor). Your flippant dismissal of…