Wally West: The Flash Appreciation 2019

[married guy]

Kil%gre
(And I probably massacred the name, but am too tired to research it. Plus, never been into villains that much.)
This was the one villain that caught my imagination in the Baron/Messner-Loeb years.

Yes!!
A totally out there creation and a heap of fun!
Kilg%re appeared again for issues #42 and 43 and I was wrapt when he appeared in Manhunter years later.
Cicada was also a creepy bastard when Johns first introduced the character!
And while I think of him, add Murmur to that list too.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

Kil%gre
(And I probably massacred the name, but am too tired to research it. Plus, never been into villains that much.)
This was the one villain that caught my imagination in the Baron/Messner-Loeb years.

Ooh, yeah, excellent call.

[Frontier]

And yet, the only similarity was that they had the same name. Literally everything else about them was completely different from their comic book counterparts.

The way I see it, Wally and Barry share the core Rogues but Savitar, Cicada and Zoom are uniquely his with Abra Kadabra being such a consistent thorn in his side that he's pretty much a Wally villain by now. Also, the newer Rogues are a bit more his than Barry's.

With Barry back and running around and the PTB at DC actually finding it within themselves to actually give Wally a chance, it would be a good idea to give him more villains that are particularly his.

The New Rogues are totally his. It's why I dislike whenever Barry fights them.

(Kadabra I always just see as a general Flash villain. Whoever The Flash is, that's who he hates on).

[Jekyll]

Yes!!
A totally out there creation and a heap of fun!
Kilg%re appeared again for issues #42 and 43 and I was wrapt when he appeared in Manhunter years later.
Cicada was also a creepy bastard when Johns first introduced the character!
And while I think of him, add Murmur to that list too.

OHHHH!!!!!! Murmur!!!! YES!!!!!! That dude was creepy!

[TheImperfectFlash]

Anton Yelchin as Wally West (Fan Art)

[Frontier]

Anton Yelchin as Wally West (Fan Art)

Looks a little too busy...

[byrd156]

Looks a little too busy...

Doesn't look anymore busy than any of the CW Flash suits.

[Frontier]

Doesn't look anymore busy than any of the CW Flash suits.

I think it looks a little busier then the CW suits, but maybe a live-action aesthetic looks different in art form.

[TheImperfectFlash]

I think it looks a little busier then the CW suits, but maybe a live-action aesthetic looks different in art form.

Maybe... Whatever happened to the "Jake Austin Walker is playing Wally West on Stargirl" rumor?

[TheImperfectFlash]

“His name is Wally West—and he was the Fastest Man Alive. That is, until the Multiverse was rewritten without him or his family in it. Wally returned and tried to make it work, but the damage was done. Spinning out of the events of HEROES IN CRISIS, follow the man who called himself Flash on an adventure to find redemption in a cosmos that has fought so hard to destroy him.”

[deadman322]

whats with the past tense being used about him being the fastest? do they need barry to be fastest so that he can say wallys line at the beinging of each comic again?

[Frontier]

Maybe... Whatever happened to the "Jake Austin Walker is playing Wally West on Stargirl" rumor?

It's gone from "he's playing Wally" to "he's playing Brainwave Jr." and it hasn't been confirmed one way or another who he's playing.

“His name is Wally West—and he was the Fastest Man Alive. That is, until the Multiverse was rewritten without him or his family in it. Wally returned and tried to make it work, but the damage was done. Spinning out of the events of HEROES IN CRISIS, follow the man who called himself Flash on an adventure to find redemption in a cosmos that has fought so hard to destroy him.”

I'm not really liking the sound of some of what they say in the premise.

whats with the past tense being used about him being the fastest? do they need barry to be fastest so that he can say wallys line at the beinging of each comic again?

I think Williamson has been building up his run to making Barry The Fastest Man Alive again (even though he was the one who established Wally was still faster).

[Dred]

Williamson has said multiple times that the endgame goal to the Force Quest stuff he has going on is to once again reestablish Barry as the Fastest Man Alive after he "lost" the title to Wally in Flash War. No more student surpassing the master in this industry.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

Williamson has said multiple times that the endgame goal to the Force Quest stuff he has going on is to once again reestablish Barry as the Fastest Man Alive after he "lost" the title to Wally in Flash War. No more student surpassing the master in this industry.

Everything about that sentence makes me glad that I'm not reading the Flash.

[byrd156]

Williamson has said multiple times that the endgame goal to the Force Quest stuff he has going on is to once again reestablish Barry as the Fastest Man Alive after he "lost" the title to Wally in Flash War. No more student surpassing the master in this industry.

What a waste.