Bart Allen was a fun addition to the Flash Family. It was amusing seeing the hyperactive speedster interact with his older mentors and the other teen heroes from Young Justice. Since then he's been aged and de-aged, changed his hero ID to Flash to Kid Flash and back to Impulse (I think). I'm not sure, I lost track of him around the time the second Wally West as Kid Flash showed up and took his place on the Teen Titans. I think Brian Michael Bendis may have brought Bart back in a new Young Justice title. Sheesh, the Flash Family history is as confusing as Hawkman's at this point!
That's a FLASH fact !!
ReplyDeleteIt has gotten confusing. DC should reboot all its comics. Doing so will fix the problem. Ha. Ha.
ReplyDeleteCore problem: new writers and editors who do what they see as a new approach to a character. I've seen layer cakes with less ingredients than a character's history.
ReplyDeleteBart can out race any shock waves and have fun teaching this inhumanly powered person a lesson. Can't wait till a writer makes Bart a female and she has problems with her new impulses. (Cookie!!)
I really enjoyed reading Impulse. Especially his thought balloons that ended up being "screw" and "ball". There were other fun ones, but that one is always my go-to favorite. It's like he was a Bugs Bunny character in a DC Comics book.
ReplyDelete@Ross: you should do that as your next Flash-family cover. "Identity Crisis 2."
ReplyDelete@JLBriggs: please, no! Don't give them any ideas.
Actually, if DC were to do a carefully-crafted reboot it might even interest me enough to start buying comics again. They'd need to pay close attention to what the fans are asking for, sort things out so they make at least good logical sense internally (the convoluted histories of the Flash Family, Bat Family, the Justice Society, and Donna Troi as prime examples), and make solid use of DC's extensive history.
ReplyDeleteI feel like that's what they were trying to do with the 2016 Rebirth and at the time I liked the single issue comic that brought Wally West back and acknowledged that they had made a lot of mistakes and forgotten or ignored stuff that fans really like, such as hero legacies, etc. The 5 years since have had good and bad but overall I think it's been more successful, story and character-wise, than the New 52. And I'm saying this as a guy who really got into DC Comics starting around 1984 or so, right around the first Crisis event.
DeleteAs far as making extensive use of DC history, my understanding is that the new Infinite Frontiers one-ahot that came out this week is to show the future of DC for the next few years and, as I understand it (I got it but haven't read it yet) part of that is acknowledging that all of the different stories since the beginning of the DC universe are "real" and "canon" and I believe they are getting rid if the 52 multiverses idea and going back to an infinite amount, and going forward there will be a "main" continuity but also more flexibility for individual creative teams to tell stories they want that aren't forced into continuity but also aren't "Elseworlds." (The example the manager at my comics shop gave me was something like Batman: Long Halloween, which wasn't Elseworlds but also wasn't dependent on the continuity at the time).
PS: I just saw the WandaVision finale. When the penultimate episode finished with the "chaos magic" line, I had a thought of pairing up the Scarlet Witch and Doctor Fate -- reuniting them, as it turns out, after their initial meeting in #1883. Maybe they can work together to rescue John Zatara from Dormammu, or something.
ReplyDeleteIn related news, it's just been confirmed that the main villain in Captain Marvel 2 will be Michael Korvac, and the picture that's been posted by some of the outlets talking about it make him look a bit like Doctor Manhattan. It might be interesting to see those two on a cover together.
Great cover Ross! As a sequel how about Gorgon vs Stompa!
ReplyDeleteBendis did bring Bart back, as a youngster, in his Young Justice run, which sadly just ended. I quite liked it because the entire arc was the YJ team solving a mystery of how/why they all seem to recall knowing each other, even though in theory they haven't met, because this was there first time appearing together, and the first appearance of Connor Kent, post New-52. So it was dealing with bringing back these fan favorite characters and acknowledging that they've been gone, which is tying into the "new normal" for DC as they are working on bringing back characters and properties like this that have been ignored for the past 10 years or more.
ReplyDelete@Martin: I got it. But, I still don't _get_ it, if you catch my drift.
ReplyDeleteI assume the real question here is:
ReplyDelete"What villain has tricked Impulse and Gorgon into fighting each other?"
Thanks for the clarification, Martin. Like the Anonymous poster, I'm still don't understand where things are at DC, but your explanation brought me closer.
ReplyDelete@Kid Charlemagne: maybe Quicksilver (Crystal's ex-husband) is being mind-controlled by Mad Maximus, again.
ReplyDeleteC'mon guys! I put three foot puns on the cover and it doesn't get a mention? I though I'd at least get a groan!
ReplyDelete@Ross: Three foot puns? I didn't see any that tall... #Rimshot
ReplyDeleteBut anyway... "Big Shoes to Fill" is kind of a "stock" pun.* Gorgon's "stomping ground" is pretty in-character, but could be worth an Oreo or two. What's the third, though -- "set one foot"?
(Impulse does seem to have unusually large feet, though. I suppose that might be someone's attempt to do for male characters what's too often done with the chests of female characters.)
Impulse: Gorgon Who do you think i am Hop-a-long Cassidy?
ReplyDelete"Who was that masked man with the laptop photo-manipulator?"
ReplyDelete"That was...THE GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAN ARRANGER!"
Animation in my mind's eye; Halas & Batchelor (copyright 1967).
Gorgon decrees This is my stomping ground! Gorgon asking for it.
ReplyDeleteGorgon vs Gorgo (or Godzilla) for "stomping rights".
Godzilla heard the request and is back on Monday, March 8, 2021. Cool service.
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