Yes, it's exactly what Wally needs
No, he's been underused
I think Barry appears more because he is the more known name, Dick gets more animated appareances than Jason, Tim and even Damian because he is the more known Robin. I don't think DC has a hidden agenda against Wally, erasing him was a mistake and I don't know who had the idea, but now he is back and it's hinted he'll be a key because after Superman Reborn, Wally is the only 'external' factor in the Manhattan thing.
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Jesse Quick, Jay Garrick, and Nu Wally West have all appeared on the Flash TV show. Nothing stopped them from using original Wally aside from lack of interest in the character.
Barry Allen appears in a new comic every week. Nu Wally appears in 3 comics a month. You know how many monthly appearances original Wally gets? One. That's 1/3 of Nu Wally's appearances and 1/4 of Barry's. Where is the effort to build up this character? He'll never work as a solo character again if they keep him sidelined like this.
Wally isn't on not on the sidelines because Barry is more popular, or for creative reasons, or because it's good for his decelopment. They Just. Don't. Like. Him.
Just because of curiosity: When Barry died, you expected him to come back? I'm just curious, because my favorite characters are on limbo right now and I'm certain they will re-appear. But I don't know how pre-crisis fans handled it back in the day, were you just 'Barry died! But he'll come back.' or you were like more of 'Oh, he is gone forever! I guess I'll have to get used to Wally as Flash.'
I did, but primarily because in 1986, it was not yet customary to kill off comic book heroes and keep them dead for YEARS. Sure, there was Bucky (who had died in the 1950s), Gwen Stacy, Larry Lance, Aquaman's son, the Earth-Two Batman, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl/Phoenix, the original Mr. Terrific, and a few others, but generally, those were exceptions. Moreover, neither DC nor Marvel had ever permanently killed off a hero as high-profile and important to their universes as the Flash before.
But as Wally's solo series went on for one year, two years, three years...it became pretty evident that it was permanent (at least until 2008), just as Dick Grayson's switch from Robin to Nightwing was.
Yeah, my initial assumption at the time was that Barry would be back within a year. When he didn't return as a living character after two or three years, I knew that DC was serious about pursuing Wally as the Post-COIE Flash for an indefinite period of time (which turned out to be twenty years). By the end of the 80s, the expectation (for me, at least) was that Barry might reemerge someday as a supporting character, though even that expectation was fading by the time that Barry finally did return in 2008.I'm just curious, because my favorite characters are on limbo right now and I'm certain they will re-appear. But I don't know how pre-crisis fans handled it back in the day, were you just 'Barry died! But he'll come back.' or you were like more of 'Oh, he is gone forever! I guess I'll have to get used to Wally as Flash.'
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Yeah, and also a bit STUNNED. I was happy to have him back in almost ANY form, but full reinstatement as the main living Flash was not what I expected. It was like having a winning mega-jackpot lotto ticket just fall into your hands (and considering what happened to Wally and the rest of the speedster cast later, somewhat of an embarrassment of riches).
My favorite FLASH comics have always been ones in which Barry and Wally appeared together...either as Flash and Kid Flash, or as Double Flashes. Somehow, having them both is better than having just one of them (which isn't to suggest either one is deficient without the other).
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Speaking for myself, yes and no. Yes, because he was my Flash when I was a kid (going back to the Saturday morning cartoons of the late '60s), but I had been a happy reader of Flash stories during the DCU years, too. I just don't have an obsession with any character (even Bruce Wayne) that prohibits me from liking another.
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About Barry's death: it was shocking in some ways, but then again, Crisis on Infinite Earths was one of these huge mega-events that HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE in the way it was handled. It literally had long-term MAJOR effects on the entire DC comics line.
When Wally took over for Barry as Flash, it seemed logical / natural, so it was a bit easier to accept.
(We also didn't have the internet back then, so who knows if that would have made a difference.)
I remember reading COIE # 7 and reacting, "OMG! THEY KILLED SUPERGIRL!"
I thought that *had* to be the peak of intensity. What else would/could they do to top that?
Then a few weeks later, COIE # 8 hits the stands, and I react, "OMG! THEY KILLED FLASH TOO!"
At that point, I stopped reading CRISIS...not because I didn't like it, but because I was too distracted by my then newfound love for mecha anime (it was a time of ROBOTECH fandom, and I had just discovered MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM too). While I caught the deaths of Kara and Barry, I didn't know about the full on CONTINUITY REBOOT that spun out of COIE # 10 (which I didn't get around to reading until years later). I must say I was awfully confused when I got back into the DCU a few years later when Robin (Jason Todd) was killed.
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