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7/11 – Curious Cat Asks…
July 11, 2006 @ 03:18 PM
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Iris West is Wally’s aunt on his father’s side, right? So Ira West is Wally’s grandfather, right? And Ira West is still alive, right (Wally even saw him during Born to Run)? So, while at the time, Wally said he didn’t like talking to him because it reminded him of his dead aunt…
A. He knows his aunt isn’t dead anymore
and
B. Even so, your aunt dying means you should ignore your grandfather when he lives in the same city (or the city next door, whichever)?
Wally doesn’t ever talk to (or about) his grandfather. Not when he was getting married, and not when his wife gave birth to Ira’s great-grandchildren.
Isn’t that pretty weird?
9 Comments
Omar Karindu
July 11, 2006 at 4:14 pm
I think it could be explained by three factors:
— Iris’s own reclusiveness because of her fear regarding her future knowledge affecting the past has probably kept her from keeping in much contact with any of the family.
— Wally has a very poor relationship with his own father, Rudy, and it may be that Ira reminds him of that as well.
— Wally also knows that Ira isn’t actually Iris’s biological father, since she was revealed to be the child of a pair of 30th century folks.
Ian Astheimer
July 11, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Or, maybe Wally just hates old people.
T.
July 11, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Or maybe DC editorial keeps its writers so busy tying into major crossovers and line-wide publicity stunts that they don’t have time to really touch on continuity minutae like that.
Apodaca
July 11, 2006 at 6:06 pm
I love Curious Cat.
Kelson
July 11, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Ah, hell, I seem to have missed something.
Iris dying? Wally avoiding Ira? (Last I remember seeing him in Flash #189, they seemed on good terms.)
What book was this in?
Brian Cronin
July 12, 2006 at 12:27 am
See? This is why we have Curious Cat! She asks questions, and you answer them!
You are, indeed, correct. In #189, Ira made an appearance. Good pickup! So Johns was paying attention!
Jer
July 12, 2006 at 5:53 am
Was Ira West used by anyone other than Mark Waid and Geoff Johns then? (It would not suprise me at all if the answer to this question was no.)
Dan Coyle
July 12, 2006 at 9:00 am
What I wanna know is, WHERE’S CHUNK! I want Chunk, Dammit!
Kelson
July 12, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Should’ve posted this last time: Ira West profile and appearances, at least in books with the word “Flash” in the title.
A quick look does show that yes, only Waid and Johns have used Ira West in their stories post-CoIE, but then before Waid showed up, the emphasis was on establishing a Flash mythos separate from Barry’s.