Comments on: The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #2 Review

By: Treasure hunters Roadshow

Treasure hunters Roadshow — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:43:51 +0000

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By: timeends

timeends — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:33:20 +0000

I say, we stop buying the Flash comics. Make the sales drop in other word, boycott. Send some mails to DC so that they will bring Wally back.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:22:07 +0000

Jason Said “At least Johns tried to evolve the characterâ€¦”

I’d disagree actually. Johns didn’t evolve the character at all, he just turned him into the Flash he wanted – a cross between Barry and Wally.
Impulse into Kid Flash was one of the worst bits of nostalgia writing I’ve ever seen.
It was supposed to be a “whoa” moment, but was just sad.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:20:23 +0000

And to use the “Comic Book Dictionary” you guys created, the replacement of Wally with Bart is a real Cousin Larry move if I ever saw one. When Barry died, he died a real, spectacular, heroic, irreversible (Loophole aside) death, saving the planet Earth from total destruction and melting into a skeleton on-panel. Whether you liked it or not, they pinned their colors to the mast and said, “Barry Allen is dead! Wally West is the Flash!”

Wally…went, um, somewhere. With his wife and kids. For a while. He’s, um, taking some time off. Or something. Now, Bart Allen is the Flash!!! …unless the comic bombs. Then we bring back Wally.

Total Cousin Larry move–getting rid of a character in such a vague, ill-defined fashion that he could wander back in any time people get sick of his replacement.

By: Ken Raining

Ken Raining — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:12:01 +0000

I still don’t understand why they felt the need to replace Wally West. He’s the one Modern Age replacement for a Silver Age character that really worked, and developed into a worthy character in his own right. Rather than replacing him, they should be celebrating him.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:44:33 +0000

Dezago actually had a good handle on Bart, I thought. Messner-Loebs and Johns, not so much. Waid and David, of course, had him cold.

For this series, I’m reserving judgment until the opening story arc is done in #6. We’ll see.

By: Imitation Cheese Spread Prime

Imitation Cheese Spread Prime — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:45:41 +0000

Ack.

I think I’m a bit behind.

So Barry and Iris got married?

Kidding.

No, really. I had a bit of a hard time accepting Wally as the Flash.

But eventually I was okay with it because the stories were great. That could have made it easier to accept Bart. But I just can’t decipher issue 1 and now this one is just infinite monkeys typing and doodling.

I think I’ll wait until the infinite monkeys have some kind of infinite crisis of infinite continuity and reboot the whole thing ten years from now.

By: Rick Jones, really

Rick Jones, really — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:26:09 +0000

In the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the best thing to come out of the chaos was the new Flash comic book, starring Wally West. Mike Baron created a character who was unsure of himself and his place in the legacy of his hero. It was a fascinating read and it carried me along all those many years, through Messner-Loebs, into the greatness of Waid and the mediocrity of Johns.

Now, though, I’m through. I can’t stand that I sound like those obnoxious fanboys with too much time on their hands and not enough of a life, but this Flash just isn’t for me. The only thing bringing me back to issue 3, the title’s last shot, is the Wally West narration from the end of issue 2. We’ll see, but I’ve got the feeling that I’m out of here. Too bad. It used to be a great title.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:38:53 +0000

Anybody else up for a “Best of Bart Allen” poll? I’d rate Mark Waid’s big-haired version at the top, followed by Peter David and Geoff Johns. At least Johns tried to evolve the character…I tried wading through Messer-Loebs and DeZago’s runs, and I just couldn’t do it. And “mopey Bart” sounds a helluva lot better than “bald Bart” or “self-replicating Bart.”

By: Filipe

Filipe — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:28:05 +0000

This is one real awful book. It’s really a course about how not to launch a book. If this were issues #15 and #16 it would bew just very bad comics as #1 ans #2 thy don’t make any sense. If the book doesn’t improve soon I predict a very short Flash tenure for poor Bart.