Comments on: WDA 03:”How Many Flashes Are There? One? Two?”

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:28:35 +0000

Let’s put this in perspective. It’s like Doctor Who: Most people’s favorite Doctor is the one they grew up with. I’ve been reading comics for almost 35 years, and despite Barry being “my” Flash, I prefer Wally. Why? Because I grew up reading New Teen Titans. The day Wally graduated in COIE 12 was a great day for me. I respect Barry for what he did, but I never could get into his title. It was too boring, when you compared it with the rest of what DC had to offer. True, Wally had better writers, but Barry did Jump Start the Silver Age. Besides, I believe that there are not many good characters, but good writers and artists. You can hate the X men if you want, but you an’t deny that Claremont Byrne is a helluva terrific era for that book (same applies to Wolfman/Perez and Snyder Capullo).

By: Bobby S

Bobby S — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:49:37 +0000

I first encountered “Earth 2″ in, appropriately enough, a Flash comic from the early 70s, the two Flashes teaming up in a story featuring Ragdoll. I was probably 8 years old and had no problem understanding the concept. I don’t think it’s at all difficult to wrap your mind around.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:41:45 +0000

I loveee the idea of multiple earths! There are so many possible places you can bring a story, one earth would be restricting!

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:15:37 +0000

Good for you Michael, because obviously you are an easily confused person. COIE actually didn’t clear up confusion, it created more problems. Power Girl as an Atlantean (WTH), Huntress now a mobsters daughter, several characters with the same identities on the same earth. Pre-COIE multiverse was easy to comprehend, because every issue that dealt with another earth stated the characters were from different earth, much LIKE our own, but slightly different. I didn’t find it hard to understand at all.

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:10:20 +0000

Barry’s death in COIE was purely for shock value, just as most of the deaths in COIE were. I personally would have preferred Jay Garrick as the Flash and Wally West as Kid Flash.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:09:36 +0000

i am not keen on having multiverse…Crisis On Infinite Earths cleaned up a lot of the confusion…and now DC wants to get us all confused again? i dont’ think so…if they are doing that, i may drop DC comics all together…

By: John Elbe

John Elbe — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:05:16 +0000

Following that logic…if Barry was so great they wouldn’t have dumped him for Wally after the Crisis of Infinite Earth circa 1985/6 would they?

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:05:04 +0000

The problem with Barry Allen was that he wasn’t an interesting character prior to the original crisis. His stories were awful. Now and then someone would write him well, but it was usually in Justice League or some other book. Plus Carmine Infantino was horrible going into the 80′s. Dreadful. Now, you get a pretty good writer on Wally and all of a sudden you have an interesting character. You put Geoff Johns on Wally/Flash and you have a great book. You put Johns on Barry/Flash and you have a great book. Each character has his good and bad points. I always liked the dynamic between Barry and Wally though. Let’s wait and see what happens.

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:51:54 +0000

If Wally was so great, then they wouldn’t have dumped him for Barry now would they?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:33:07 +0000

As many as it takes to get Wally West back where he belongs, as the best Flash there ever was. Just saying.