Comments on: Definitive List of the Five Best Flashes Ever Anywhere

By: Speed Reading: Rebirth, Crimson Lightning, Turner Tribute and More « Speed Force

Speed Reading: Rebirth, Crimson Lightning, Turner Tribute and More « Speed Force — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:57:26 +0000

[...] Comics Should Be Good has a list of the Top Five Flashes. I’m sure most Flash fans will find something to disagree with in this [...]

By: Michael Mayket

Michael Mayket — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:54:38 +0000

Yeah! What Lauren said!

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:26:32 +0000

I find the G.I. Joe love completely impossible to relate to.
REAL G.I. Joe is twice as tall and has "real" hair and, often, Kung-Fu grip.*
The version of G.I Joe mentioned in this post came into existence just when I was reaching the perfect age to start rejecting things like the comics & cartoons based on him merely on the grounds of it being a product promo.

*Of course, there's an even earlier, even larger, original version, sans hair & beard, treasured by those even older than I, who probably consider "my" version as hopelessly latter-day and decadent as I consider the Cobra-fighting version.

By: Ethan Shuster

Ethan Shuster — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:50:09 +0000

Oh, and bravo for this post having no Garrick, Allen or West! Just cuz, why not?

By: Ethan Shuster

Ethan Shuster — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:49:15 +0000

Incidentally, G.I. Joe's Flash went the way of Barry Allen (well, until recently, I guess) and died in an explosion during a mission back in one of the Devil's Due issues from a couple of years back. Of course, IDW has taken over G.I. Joe with a reboot, so maybe Flash will return.

That one shot of Flash Gordon makes me wish for a new version. And we can all just ignore that short-lived Sci-Fi original version.

By: lauren

lauren — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:47:19 +0000

I think Grandmaster Flash is cooler than s/flash and he had the furious five!

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:45:38 +0000

Flash Funk and Grandmaster Funk; the team up that damn well ought to exist.

By: jhota

jhota — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:21:30 +0000

what about Grandmaster Flash?

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:37:51 +0000

Oh yeah, some GI Joe Flash love! My first GI Joe figure! He kicked ass in Marvel's GI Joe #1 and was totaly banging Cover Girl!

By: T.

T. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:42:19 +0000

Yes, Wally was explicitly labeled as Republican in-story by Mike Baron. I don't know if it was ever mentioned before that, but that's the first time I saw it in print.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:35:55 +0000

No Flash Funk = FAIL.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:06:11 +0000

I like cabinets all right? Geez, get off my back!

By: Ariel S.

Ariel S. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:57:47 +0000

"Cajones" in spanish means "drawers". I assume you meant "cojones"

By: CBrown

CBrown — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:47 +0000

Pretty ballsy to not include any of the three Flashes on the Best Flash list. But what about REVERSE Flash?

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:18:37 +0000

Wally was a Republican bak in the 80s, which, thanks to the rolling ten-year window of comic book time, is now well before he was born...

By: doron

doron — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:52:37 +0000

I believe wally is a republican because Bary was a republican. ( I mean, cmon he is police)

By: St. Michael

St. Michael — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:31:30 +0000

All the rest are just FlashBOYS.

By: T.

T. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:27:09 +0000

#5 shouldn't count. Technically he's not a Flash at all but a FlashMAN. Big difference.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:03:56 +0000

Tsk tsk, Joe, we have an image server, so we shouldn't hotlink to photos!

I uploaded all the images to our server.

Great list!

By: sononsj

sononsj — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:52:13 +0000

And now it's not showing up... way to be a dick picture #4.