One Minute War part 1 Review/Discussion (Flash #790)

[Drako]

The other forces exist but have no relevance to this book at the moment. Unless you count Jai's power as the, what is it called? Strength Force?

[sifighter]

Thanks for the update! I am glad to see what looks like something akin to Waid's run when there was a Flash family. Is Max Mercury also still around by chance?

Another question is are we still stuck with the Lantern like rainbow of forces

Yes Max Mercury is around for this arc.

[Digifiend]

Some things I was confused on.
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From Jay and Jesse’s internal monologue, are Joan Garrick and Libby Lawrence already dead? Iris already raised Dawn and Don on the future right? Why is she so adamant on more kids with Barry? Did that get retcon out? It couldn’t have or else Bart wouldn’t exist.

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It would make sense for Joan to be dead unfortunately. She's just a regular human and would be over 100 years old at this point. Libby though, should be alive, she was pre-Flashpoint. I assume she's one of the JSA members who were Ragnaroked. If she'd aged from the golden age naturally Jesse would be elderly, Libby shouldn't be past her 60s biologically now (and that assumes Jesse was born when she was in her 40s, as Jesse's a 20something).

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Bart has a thing where he's immune to timeline changes, IIRC. (Which gets really weird since his backstory didn't exist until AFTER Zero Hour, but he debuted BEFORE....)

That's impossible. Flashpoint whammied Bart into the Speed Force. I.E. he was effectively killed due to timeline changes. Wally, Jesse and Max suffered the same fate. Wally returned first in the Rebirth one-shot, then Bart in Flash #50, and then Jesse and Max during the Finish Line arc.

If Bart was immune to timeline changes he'd have still been around in New 52 - and immediately exposed Bar-Torr, who used both Bart Allen and Kid Flash as aliases, as an imposter.

[Will Evans]

One thing everyone forgets is that Jesse was pregnant right before Flashpoint.

[Factor]

One thing everyone forgets is that Jesse was pregnant right before Flashpoint.

Sadly they’re forgetting a lot of things it seems.
Still not over Libby’s erasure.

[Drako]

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It would make sense for Joan to be dead unfortunately. She's just a regular human and would be over 100 years old at this point. Libby though, should be alive, she was pre-Flashpoint. I assume she's one of the JSA members who were Ragnaroked. If she'd aged from the golden age naturally Jesse would be elderly, Libby shouldn't be past her 60s biologically now (and that assumes Jesse was born when she was in her 40s, as Jesse's a 20something).

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That's impossible. Flashpoint whammied Bart into the Speed Force. I.E. he was effectively killed due to timeline changes. Wally, Jesse and Max suffered the same fate. Wally returned first in the Rebirth one-shot, then Bart in Flash #50, and then Jesse and Max during the Finish Line arc.

If Bart was immune to timeline changes he'd have still been around in New 52 - and immediately exposed Bar-Torr, who used both Bart Allen and Kid Flash as aliases, as an imposter.

Bart is immune to timeline changes, but not to editorial ones. This things are not real and don't follow strict rules.
He can still be immune to timeline changes despite the fact that the New 52 existed at some point.