Your favourite Green Lantern/Flash duo?

[FanboyStranger]

Classic Jay and Alan for me. I liked that they were older and respected each other's experience. They felt like old friends.

[SJNeal]

Hal & Wally.

Kyle & Wally are a close second; the reason being Wally was much more experienced than Kyle, yet they were usually written as peers simply due to both being second generation.

[Sacred Knight]

Despite my golden years with DC including the Wally and Kyle incarnations, I like the Hal and Barry BFF situation. Even though I didn't get a whole lot of it till recently, it always seemed so natural.

[Güicho]

LOL powers switcheroo...




I liked Waid's take on them, somewhat two buddy cops dynamic, but with a twist.
Barry being a - by the book, formal cop, a bit square, a bit o.c.d. in his real life and day job - And expressing an unimagined freedom in his secret superhero life.

While Hal was the opposite, a free, sometimes drifter, somewhat reckless maverick in his real life - And in his secret Superhero life a formal cop who had to follow (although he rarely did) rules.

They each envied aspects of the other.

Not sure how they are playing it now.



Also great image, by Ethan & Moose, what was this from? And where can I read the Sinestro Zoom team-up!

[Deniz Camp]

Hal/Barry will always be my favorite, I suppose. There's a lot of dynamic energy there; two characters who couldn't be more different in terms of personality and temperament, but who come together and I think genuinely teach each other, grow with each other. Out of all of them, it feels like the only relationship with the potential for explosive chemistry, for ideological conflict (generally resolved by putting aside dogma, being open to new ways of doing things, and trusting in their emotional bond).

Compare that to Wally/Kyle, which is fun but ultimately very 'samey samey', at least to me. Two guys in their 20s doing their thing. I don't have an issue with it - it's a very honest (even realistic) relationship - I just don't find that the two have distinct voices when put right next to each other. Their viewpoints are likely going to be aligned, despite the sort of rivalry they had going on, which always rang false to me.

Hal/Wally is also a fun one, but it's not a true partnership; Hal is the senior member of that 'team', and the spectre of (dead) Barry Allen hung over that interaction forever. I really enjoyed it, it was kind of a beautiful tribute to Barry and that bygone age that Wally respected and almost worshiped Hal so much, and Hal looked at Wally like his own nephew as Barry was a kind of brother to him. Again, there is a lot there, but ultimately that relationship has to evolve beyond what it historically was into something more equal. It can't exist, long term, as it does.

The whole Flash/Green Lantern relationship was a much stronger story engine than GL/GA, which I always thought was a strange pairing based almost wholly on similar color schemes. The power differential always made credible antagonists/stories difficult there; it's a flawed team up, even if I do love the personality clashes (at least as they used to exist; current GA is much less the socialist crusader, or even the kind of hot head that he used to be, which is where so much of the conflict came from).

[Flash Gordon]

Hal/Barry for me.

[TommyJones1945]

As a kid, I would have said Wally/Kyle, but maaaaaaaaaaan......after reading that Flash annual there's no other logical choice left.

Barry/Hal for me.

[Tony Stark]

As a kid, I would have said Wally/Kyle, but maaaaaaaaaaan......after reading that Flash annual there's no other logical choice left.

Barry/Hal for me.

I just bought that and you're right. It was great.

[Buried Alien]

Were there any memorable Wally West/John Stewart team ups outside of the JL/JLU animated series? I can't remember one from the regular (old) DCU comics, and in any case, DCU Wally and John were not quite the same as their TV counterparts.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[bat39]

I picked Wally/John simply because I loved their interactions in the cartoon...and I hope to see that in live-action some-day.

Hal/Barry certainly is the iconic GL/Flash team.

[Robotman]

As a kid, I would have said Wally/Kyle, but maaaaaaaaaaan......after reading that Flash annual there's no other logical choice left.

Barry/Hal for me.

Loved that issue. Good Silver Age style fun.

I can see them going with the Justice League War characterizations. The nerdy good cop and the hot shot arrogant cop.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

I liked Waid's take on them, somewhat two buddy cops dynamic, but with a twist.
Barry being a - by the book, formal cop, a bit square, a bit o.c.d. in his real life and day job - And expressing an unimagined freedom in his secret superhero life.

While Hal was the opposite, a free, sometimes drifter, somewhat reckless maverick in his real life - And in his secret Superhero life a formal cop who had to follow (although he rarely did) rules.

They each envied aspects of the other.

Not sure how they are playing it now.

This, pretty much. I way prefer Wally and Kyle individually but, when written well, Hal and Barry just play off each other perfectly. Waid's stuff was a perfect encapsulation of that and I really, really liked the recent annual with the two of them. In fact, I still find it hard to believe that that annual was part of the New 52 - it felt way to classic, way too fun and way to bright to fit into the general grimdark of the New 52 and/ or Geoff Johns' incredibly bland, if not outright terrible, characterization of these two characters.

[RLAAMJR.]

Kyle has the coolest costume.

link: http://superman8193.deviantart.com/a...tern-251653607
Kyle Rayner - Green Lantern
by Superman8193

[LoneNecromancer]

Kyle has the coolest costume.

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That's nice, but the thread is "your favourite Green Lantern/Flash duo"?

[The Darknight Detective]

DC never put the emphasis on any other Flash/GL combination like it did on Barry/Hal, and I believe it's because those two have a unique and compelling interpersonal chemistry. The other combinations worked fine and offered their own distinct dynamics, but none seemed to have the same spark as when Barry and Hal teamed up.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

That's exactly my thoughts, also.