"The Flash Is Not About Tragedy": Wally West Appreciation! (NO NUWALLY BASHING!!!)

[Kyer]

Wally and Barry are fictional characters. Their love for each other is not real. However the negative affect Barry's existence has had on poor Wally is very, very real.¹ If Barry never came back Wally wouldn't have lost the Flash solo². If Barry never came back Wally wouldn't have been erased from existence. If Barry never came back Wally wouldn't be a minor supporting character with almost no appearances outside of a single mediocre team book right now. If Barry never came back Wally might be on his way to Hollywood right now.

Barry has done ZERO good for Wally since his death.³ The only toxic attitude in this situation is the belief that Wally must be destroyed so Barry can be the one true Flash, an attitude that will never go away as long as Barry is successful. There is no love between those men in the real world.

If you care more about defending Barry than sticking up for Wally, you might as well burn every comic you own featuring Wally. Because I don't think you actually care about this character. At all.

I apologize for any hostility in my posts, but I stand by everything I said. I'm sorry, you can't support both Flashes at once.⁴

1. Since Wally is fictional and not real then how can he be 'poor'?

2. If Wally never came back we would have had a Bart ongoing. Or a Max or Jay one. Or no speedsters at all. Things/tastes can change what books get published.

3. I absolutely friggin LOVED The Return of Barry Allen along with every single moment Barry returned to talk to Wally before he had to go back in time. It was those very things that made me hyper excited for Flash: Rebirth (and yes, yes, yes, howdy was I ever disappointed by that and the aftermath of it.)

4. And yet here I am doing both and about to blow your mind further with my insanity..... I also want to read a Jay Garrick solo and a Max Mercury & Bart Allen book....while buying every Wally thingamajigee that comes my way.

[Assam]

I also want to read a Jay Garrick solo and a Max Mercury & Bart Allen book....while buying every Wally thingamajigee that comes my way.

And here I am wanting those books even more than I want a Wally solo.

[Buried Alien]

4. And yet here I am doing both and about to blow your mind further with my insanity..... I also want to read a Jay Garrick solo and a Max Mercury & Bart Allen book....while buying every Wally thingamajigee that comes my way.

A solo Jay Garrick book would be refreshing. It's been nearly seventy years since we've had one.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Assam]

A solo Jay Garrick book would be refreshing. It's been nearly seventy years since we've had one.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Man, that long...Honestly, while we're all hoping the new JSA book will be great, I think solos for the JSA's Trinity, Jay, Alan, and Ted, would be so cool. There's so much potential for those!

Also, this is probably a weird opinion to some, and I know I'm getting really off track, but hey, there's no Jay appreciation thread, but Jay has BY FAR my favorite Flash Family costume, with only XS coming close.

[Buried Alien]

but hey, there's no Jay appreciation thread, but Jay has BY FAR my favorite Flash Family costume...

Go start one, man...what are you waiting for? An engraved invitation?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Johnny]

If Barry never came back Wally wouldn't have lost the Flash solo.

And if Barry never died, Wally wouldn't get that Flash solo to begin with.

[Cmbmool]

A solo Jay Garrick book would be refreshing. It's been nearly seventy years since we've had one.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Another reason I'm ticked at DC and how they treated Jay Garrick...I mean when the Flash anniversary came out a few years ago...where were all of the Jay Garrick themed Variant covers ?

[TheSupernaut]

Another reason I'm ticked at DC and how they treated Jay Garrick...I mean when the Flash anniversary came out a few years ago...where were all of the Jay Garrick themed Variant covers ?

All they see is Barry Allen.

[Buried Alien]

Another reason I'm ticked at DC and how they treated Jay Garrick...I mean when the Flash anniversary came out a few years ago...where were all of the Jay Garrick themed Variant covers ?

The Golden Age was out of favor early in the New 52 regime. The Golden Age was entirely deleted and replaced by the New 52 Earth-2, a decision which was predictably not well-received.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Kyer]

They switched kindly, knowledgeable, in love with is wife Jay and really good friends with Alan with some college bum. Then they took away Alan's kids and made him gay instead of his son...then promptly murdered his lover because.... someone in DC has a thing for death. I mean really. They must love the whole concept. Am honestly surprised they just don't do a solo book of Death because they'd have endless story material for the character just on deceased parents and lovers alone.

Good grief.

I hope Jay will still have Joan. Someone has got to be allowed to be happily married, right? I mean, I don't know anyone in real life who is happily married, but this is supposed to be fantasy anyway. So give us some fantasy!

[BohemiaDrinker]

Is this the worst time ever to be a Wally West fan?

The "worst time ever"?

For reals?

I'm gonna assume you weren't around and/or aware of this stuff about 2009 or 2010.

[Dataweaver]

Not to mention 2011–2015.

[TheSupernaut]

Fact is, things are better for Wally than they've been in a long time. At least he exists.

[Lightning Rider]

Fact is, things are better for Wally than they've been in a long time. At least he exists.

Easily.


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[Atlanta96]

Fact is, things are better for Wally than they've been in a long time. At least he exists.

If the best thing to be said about his current state is "at least he exists" then Wally fans still have absolutely nothing to be grateful for.