The Flash needs a Brand New Lead

[Frontier]

I'm a fan of Far Sector so I wouldn't mind them doing that approach with other characters. It could be a fun experiment and a way to give the Earth One imprint a kick in the pants.

Granted I don't think replacing Barry or Wally in the main canon is gonna do much good.

So like a new Flash who travels from dimension to dimension?

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

So like a new Flash who travels from dimension to dimension?

That might be cool but I was talking more about how separated Jo feels from the DCU/Green Lantern legacy.

[Frontier]

That might be cool but I was talking more about how separated Jo feels from the DCU/Green Lantern legacy.

I was just thinking of a status quo that would facilitate that.

[Lee]

You made the mistake of taking what I said literally. Sure DC has the final word on these characters, but that doesn't mean making the right decisions from a storytelling standpoint.

You're looking at it from a perspective where the characters have endings. By design, they don't, otherwise they wouldn't still be around today.

[Timothy Hunter]

You're looking at it from a perspective where the characters have endings. By design, they don't, otherwise they wouldn't still be around today.

When superheroes have continuously been published for as long as they have, they change rapidly, sometimes so much so that you could hardly say they are the same character anymore.

Hawkeye has been transformed into a completely different character starting with Matt Fraction's run.

Hal Jordan post Geoff Johns is now portrayed as more brash and hotheaded compared to his relatively restrained and calm demeanor in the Steve Engelhart and Gerard Jones runs pre Emerald Twilight.

Whenever you have superheroes have been around this long, they are eventually going to break character. At that point, I think passing down the heroic mantles would be a natural and reasonable decision.

[Lee]

When superheroes have continuously been published for as long as they have, they change rapidly, sometimes so much so that you could hardly say they are the same character anymore.

Hawkeye has been transformed into a completely different character starting with Matt Fraction's run.

Hal Jordan post Geoff Johns is now portrayed as more brash and hotheaded compared to his relatively restrained and calm demeanor in the Steve Engelhart and Gerard Jones runs pre Emerald Twilight.

Whenever you have superheroes have been around this long, they are eventually going to break character. At that point, I think passing down the heroic mantles would be a natural and reasonable decision.

All long lived cartoon characters change with the times. Superman is no different to Donald Duck or Asterix.

[married guy]

They aged Bart into adulthood off-panel and completely changed his personality when they made him the Flash. It was a complete disservice to the character.

Impulse was a unique and full realised character. It was a mistake to ever change that.

Bart as the Flash was a trainwreck.
It stumbled out of the gate and never recovered. If it was given a little more thought it COULD have worked, after all Bart HAD matured over the years in Teen Titans and there was no reason he couldn't have taken the mantle from Wally. Unfortunately, we just never got the story to support it.

[Lee]

Bart is, at his core, not a mature character. If they truly wanted to do Bart as The Flash, then it should have been a goofy, impatient, immature 16 year old Flash. Wouldn't that have been more interesting?

They didn't put character first. They decided that the new Flash had to have a certain set of traits, and foisted those traits onto an incompatible character.

[Godlike13]

I think thats a fair assessment. They took the Bart out of Bart when they made him the Flash. Which defeated the purpose.

[David Walton]

Just my personal bias, but I want Wally back as the primary Flash with the extended Flash family playing a role in his book.

Mark Waid recently said in a Q&A on the DC universe forums that he's confident the current leadership at DC wants to restore Wally to his rightful place of prominence, so here's hoping...

[Dred]

Waid said Wally was in good hands. Nothing about "Rightful place" or prominence. For all we know he was just purely referencing Death Metal as we know Snyder will be the next person writing Wally now that 5g is trashed.

[Rend20]

Waid said Wally was in good hands. Nothing about "Rightful place" or prominence.

Actually, I think he did?

"I’m confident that DC’s current management is just as eager as I am to see Wally in his rightful place of prominence. Trust me."

Now whether there's any truth in that (or what that exactly means) is another discussion.

[Frontier]

Just my personal bias, but I want Wally back as the primary Flash with the extended Flash family playing a role in his book.

Mark Waid recently said in a Q&A on the DC universe forums that he's confident the current leadership at DC wants to restore Wally to his rightful place of prominence, so here's hoping...

I think ideally we'd get Barry and Wally in dual Flash ongoing's.

I think DC retiring Barry now is as likely as them retiring Hal.

[Shadowcat]

I think ideally we'd get Barry and Wally in dual Flash ongoing's.

I think DC retiring Barry now is as likely as them retiring Hal.

Or until the market fully recovers from the Coronavirus, have concurrent storylines, with one as the lead story, the other in backup, then switch after the first storyline is over.

[Timothy Hunter]

All long lived cartoon characters change with the times. Superman is no different to Donald Duck or Asterix.

Donald Duck doesn't have a decades spanning continuity behind him.