in order:
1- Jay Garrick
2- Jay Garrick
3- Jay Garrick
The original, JSA founder, old fashioned, looks like a god, a classic...the best.
Barry Allen
Wally West
Bart Allen
Jay Garrick
in order:
1- Jay Garrick
2- Jay Garrick
3- Jay Garrick
The original, JSA founder, old fashioned, looks like a god, a classic...the best.
I voted for Wally but it's basically a tie between him and Barry; Wally has, like, a 0.5% lead, yknow? I kinda feel like, at this point, "the Flash" isn't really whole if you're not utilizing both of these characters fully.
"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."
~ Black Panther.
You reminded of the Jay story in Flash #134 (I think) written by Mark Millar.
The conversation with Jay, Wally and Dick over a drink & at the end of it Dick saying something like "I wanna be that guy when I grow up".
Mark Millar has written some pretty average stuff, but I loved his run on the Flash.
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
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Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
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And now we've got:* Wally West = 74 votes (+ 8)
* Barry Allen = 30 votes (+ 1)
* Jay Garrick = 11 votes (+ 3)
* Bart Allen = 2 votes (still stuck in neutral)
But isn't Bart Allen Impulse? And isn't Wally West Kid Flash? Will I get a lot of hate for saying that?
When I started reading Flash, Wally was Kid Flash and I liked Kid Flash just about as much as Flash himself--in fact, I thought Wally had the superior costume. I enjoyed Jay Garrick, the original Flash, whenever he paid a visit from Earth-Two, too, and I admired his taste in fashion, as well.
Flash forward to the 1990s and I bought the intitial run of IMPULSE and I was very pleased with that comic. I thought it was just the kind of thing DC should be publishing. I imagined if I was a younger reader that would be a title that would appeal to my taste and that I could enjoy. Was I wrong and misjudging the tastes of the younger readers at the time? I don't know.
I always thought that if you threw one of these into your post you're immediately excused from saying anything the least bit controversial.
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I loved the thought balloons Humberto Ramos would come up with for Bart.
His Navy Seal thought balloon springs to mind....
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
Grant Gustin as Barry Allen.
While I like them all (I'll never understand the pretzel logic some fans will create to try to differentiate between the speedsters, when they're much more similar than dissimilar), I first discovered Barry 50 years ago on the small screen and grew up reading his exploits as a kid. For the vast majority of people, that's all you need to define a favorite.
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Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
i loved morrison/millar's year on the flash, during waid's sabbatical. emergency stop, the black flash, the human race -- loved it all. i was here on CBR in the 90s during the run, i recall many fans at the time thought waid's stuff when he returned (the wedding, cobalt blue, chain lightning) was a little weak and wished morrison/millar never left.
While I do love what Joshua Williamson has been doing on Barry's title. One of the first comics I ever picked up was Flash #1 in 1987. Wally was my Flash for a long time and I watched him evolve from someone trying to carry on Barry's legacy to creating his own. Joining the Justice League, creating a "Family" with Jay, Bart, Jesse and Max Mercury...to having his own family around the same time I did. I feel like Wally and I grew up together.