Tom King's Thoughts On Wally West

[Dred]

-_- Like Barry Allen being The Speed Force Engine? I believe that little choice tidbit still smells up the books or at least is considered in current continuity.

I don't believe so. Hitch is the only one who used it and Hitch's JL is, rightfully, treated like a terrible fever dream.

It does kind of sound like something the Negative Speed Force would be capable of but I'm pretty sure only Thawne has access to it.

Part of Meena's deal is now she uses the negative speed force.

[theoneandonly]

the worst part is barry failing to detect even traces of speed force energy on the corpses or at the crime scene. such a unprecedented upheaval occurs in the speed force and he doesn't sense it and such a burst of energy won't dissipate soon as a Wally who has lost control bleeding speed energy is making holes in reality and disrupting fabric of reality scenario given how totally he has identified with it. actually there shouldn't have been any corpses for them to autopsy as they would all have been disintegrated due to the excessive kinetic energy imparted to each of their body molecules.

[Godlike13]

To be fair the Speed Force is rather fluid and mysterious. Which at the same time leaves them with an easy out.

[theoneandonly]

just more cop outs and halfassed winging it writing.

[Godlike13]

While that might be true. Still this is not the first time we have seen the Speed Force do something, or someone do something with the Speed Force, we have previously never seen before and didn't even know could be done.

[married guy]

I don't give a rat's arse on what Tom King thinks about Wally West.
The godawful series he just unleashed upon the world showed he has NO FUCKING IDEA on what makes Wally West tick.
If he did, he would NEVER have agreed to use the character as the murderer in his logic defying whodunnit.

[Franny6422]

I don't give a rat's arse on what Tom King thinks about Wally West.
The godawful series he just unleashed upon the world showed he has NO FUCKING IDEA on what makes Wally West tick.
If he did, he would NEVER have agreed to use the character as the murderer in his logic defying whodunnit.

I take it, you didn't like it? SERIOUSLY I will buy anything DC, this......Not a chance. Hope they don't print too many trades LMAO. Mind you, could resell as doorsteps.

[Kyer]

I take it, you didn't like it? SERIOUSLY I will buy anything DC, this......Not a chance. Hope they don't print too many trades LMAO. Mind you, could resell as doorsteps.

Too easy to go slip-sliding away as doorsteps this being a slippery bugger. I'd go with the traditional bird cage liner. That is, if you don't think it might traumatize the birds:

"I don't know doctor. Crackers was doing just fine until I changed the cage liner....then suddenly he developed this nervous tick, screeching This Is Bullshit! like he was being murdered, and vomiting."
"New bird cage liner?"
"Copies of HIC my local comic store practically begged me to take off his hands."
".... I'm calling the Humane Society. There are laws against animal abuse, buddy."

[Sam]

I've noticed King has been silent about Heroes in Crisis since Issue 9 was released. I guess he knows it's not worth continuing to try and justify it.

[Godlike13]

I've noticed King has been silent about Heroes in Crisis since Issue 9 was released. I guess he knows it's not worth continuing to try and justify it.

I think it also has to do with the rumors about him on Batman.

[Dred]

I've noticed King has been silent about Heroes in Crisis since Issue 9 was released. I guess he knows it's not worth continuing to try and justify it.

They timed that New Gods writing gig correctly to let him focus on that instead of that. Very good timing on that PR.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Heroes in Crisis doesn't make the best case for his Wally West fandom.

[JackDaw]

I don't give a rat's arse on what Tom King thinks about Wally West.
The godawful series he just unleashed upon the world showed he has NO FUCKING IDEA on what makes Wally West tick.
If he did, he would NEVER have agreed to use the character as the murderer in his logic defying whodunnit.

Wally is a murderer now?

Thank goodness I read my comics nowadays years in arrears..easy to just avoid crap like that.

I think if I made a list of super hero comic happenings I least wanted to read Clarke beating up Lois would be number 1 on “avoid list”, but certainly “Wally West murderer” would be in top ten.

I suppose given time Geoff Johns will write a “genius” story telling us it was not Wally’s fault..he was possessed by a speed demon, or an evil clone done it. Another story I won’t be buying....

[Dred]

He's not a murderer, per se. He's a mass manslaughterer. Or maybe negligent homicidist. One or the other depending on how you take his inner monologue there.

The illegal stuff he commited was severe invasion of privacy, highly illegal and sketchy release of personal and medical health information, mutilation of corpses, two frameups, fleeing the crime, and misuse of time travel though that last one isn't technically illegal. It's just awful.

[bob.schoonover]

He's not a murderer, per se. He's a mass manslaughterer. Or maybe negligent homicidist. One or the other depending on how you take his inner monologue there.

The illegal stuff he commited was severe invasion of privacy, highly illegal and sketchy release of personal and medical health information, mutilation of corpses, two frameups, fleeing the crime, and misuse of time travel though that last one isn't technically illegal. It's just awful.

Do the Linear Men still exist in the DCU? I think they'd consider time travel shenanigans illegal. . .

You missed some obvious cyber crimes, obstruction of justice, and one could probably make an argument for kidnapping and assault for the manner in which he convinced Harley and Booster of each other's culpability. You know, normal hero stuff