The last time Wally and Barry really did anything together before this run was 2009 Flash Rebirth, where they retconned everything in Wally's entire life and history to establish that Barry was superior to him and every Flash family member so...not really? Most people still respond to the "Who's faster" question with "Barry created the Speed Force!" because they hammered it home so hard.
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My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
Williamson is a Barry fan and he’s writing Barry’s ongoing so I don’t really have a problem with him building Barry up. Look when Wally lost being *The* Flash it was only a matter of time until he got regressed. It sucks but it’s how it is, they were never going to keep Barry at number 2 forever.
Was it Word Balloon? Been meaning to listen to that. I’m happy if they’re disregarding Johns retcon since it was always insanely dumb and used to make Barry more special.
I mean, but I don't remember even back then them establishing that Barry was faster then Wally was when he came back. They never raced back then nor was it a plot point.
The only major speed feat of that story was Barry indicating that he always took it easy on Superman whenever they raced.
Conceptually I can understand wanting the main Flash and the main character to be the titular Fastest Man Alive that he's supposed to be, it just does kind of suck to have to take away from Wally one of his biggest achievements and something he actually surpassed Barry in.
They didn't race but you had scenes like empowered Lady Savitar beating the shit out of Wally with her increased speed and then Barry easily handling her when Wally couldn't. You have Thawne taking the entire Flash family for a ride but Barry being the only one who could really stand up to him. There wasn't a "race" but both Wally and Barry were going after Thawne to stop him from killing Iris. Barry had just learned from Wally how to navigate the timestream and Speed Force without a treadmill, yet he beats Wally there to Thawne.
The entire comic is about putting Barry on a pedestal. And then Wally was erased so there was no question after that. This isn't a new thing, they're just going to redo it.
It wasn't really a surprise when it happened in Flash: Rebirth. Heck, the only surprise was that Flash War had Wally as the fastest. But it does let Williamson reuse a Waid character beat so it makes sense in retrospect.
Last edited by Dred; 06-23-2019 at 12:06 PM.
So Lodbell and Booth are writing a mini with Wally, eh well i don't think that Lodbell is as bad as some people say, but he is definetly inspiring confidence. This is the second time that he has to continue something that King did for some reason (is him Didio's errand boy or something?) and Booth...his work speak for himself.
For another side, i heard that they wrote a decent one-shot with Wally last year, so maybe is possible that it won't be a total disaster?, wich is bot saying much after HOC to be honest, but one can dream.
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Last edited by Lee; 06-23-2019 at 02:07 PM.
Then what's the point of being a teacher??
Of ANY comic character I can think of, Barry is the one that strikes me as taking enormous pride that his protege has surpassed him. All those Flash Facts sunk in!
Stuff like this is what make Barry seem 'off' to me since his return. Barry from pre Crisis wouldn't care about being the fastest. That's childish. He'd care about having the power to HELP PEOPLE.
And if his nephew was a pico second or two faster, who cares? He'd be chuffed Wally had matured into such a great man AND hero carrying the Flash legacy.
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
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