Okay, folks, let's keep this appreciative and leave the personal comments at the door, so to speak.
Okay, folks, let's keep this appreciative and leave the personal comments at the door, so to speak.
Just finished, for the fourth or fifth time, reading The Flash #152-159. Don't know why, but I love the Dark Flash Saga.
And the final pages ...
This!!!
Baron's run was interesting, but it wasn't the greatest. His state at the time wasn't that conducive to great work either.
That said, Messner-Loebs take the book and absolutely ROCKED IT. I seriously doubt another writer could have done such an amazing job.
He slowly changed the character of Wally West in a way that was well written, timed and made perfect sense story wise.
He gave us a Pied Piper who for the first time was a real person (and GASP! gay!)
He gave us Linda Park.
He gave us Wally's mum and dad who were interesting, flawed people.
Chunk, Mason, Connie, Tina - were all either introduced or made more interesting by Bill.
The bloke does not get the recognition he deserves.
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
Here you go. The link for the old thread.
http://community.comicbookresources....UWALLY-BASHING!!!)
I love that story. Loved the mystery and Walter West is a great character. Plus he has a very cool look and I liked his tougher stance on criminals. But yes his costume is still so cool. I think a lot of it has influenced future looks for Wally's costumes. Like his Flash Rebirth one with the darker red and cowl covering his nose. I would say even Wally's silver lighting these days came from there.
To me this was the last really good Wally story as Johns took over right after and Wally got watered down and wasn't as good.
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My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
Double Post.
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
Also his first cover is one of my favorite covers of all time.
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My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
Thank you for the link.
Dark Flash was a great story. I loved the mystery, execution, and ending. Well, not the ending since it in fact 'ended' when obviously it was meant to continue. D.I. Walter was a great character. Much better than Barry's 'evil twin' stories. It also featured Jay and Impulse. Plus the tie-ins where other heroes reacted to him. What was not to love?
I'm champing at the bit until they come out with a trade. Been wanting to re-read this story for years.
And yeah... Best Flash Costume Evah!
Parental care is way exhausting. Gained insight into what my parents went through when I was a baby. Not fun, but what ya gonna do? (Read comics, obviously.)
Double post.
However, since I'm here anyway. (And I'm a curious beast in more ways than one...)
Moderators, if you are still culling extra long threads to keep the system from crashing? The Teen Titans one is longer than the Wally by quite a bit and is still going as is. I see you did get the Green Lantern one and the Extended Universe going on at 28,0000 though. Whew!
http://community.comicbookresources....iation/page570
Last edited by Kyer; 08-12-2018 at 09:14 PM.
Parental care is way exhausting. Gained insight into what my parents went through when I was a baby. Not fun, but what ya gonna do? (Read comics, obviously.)
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My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
He was a mini Flash. lol. And when he became the Flash it was also just Barry's costume.
Which really makes me appreciate his new Rebirth suit and his Flash Rebirth one. It put his own unique touch on it. (His Flash suit with his own little qualities on it is still my favorite though )
i think they could even still add some more Walter West touches onto it. As we said above that is an awesome costume.
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake