Feb 13
The Flash (2016-) Issue #29
Wearing your suit in the bath, Barry? For shame. I'll accept your position because you look like you've been through some tough shit.
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The Flash (2016-) Issue #29
Wearing your suit in the bath, Barry? For shame. I'll accept your position because you look like you've been through some tough shit.
The Flash (2016) #24
SCREAMING
Well, Joan. If you could see me now. Crawling through a spaceship’s vents, looking to cause some trouble.
Jay Garrick in The Flash (2016) #795
Aw he does learn from his kids
Flash Year One
Things I want from Flash Year One that I'll never get from Joshua Williamson, and even if I do he'll ruin it.
Return of Barry Allen's original origin, doused in electrified chemicals by lightning bolt, gets super-speed but doesn't realize it at first. No coma, him having no marks on his body, nothing to show from the accident plays into his thinking that it was all a dream the next day. Also no one knows he was struck by lightning so no one can easily guess that the Flash is Barry by the timing.
He gets the name Flash from the Golden Age comics, loves Jay Garrick, still collects superhero comic books.
Jumps straight into superheroing, the first thing he thinks to himself is how he can use his powers for humanity.
No dead mom recon, no evil twin brother, had a normal childhood.
Bring back the fun, idealistic tone of the Flash, embrace the Silver and Bronze Age goofiness.
Instead of focusing on 'fastest man alive' and generic speed, bring back Barry's old tricks, complete control of his molecules, his backdraft, turning invisible through speed, vibrating enemies, making so it looks like he's in two places at once.
If Willianson tries to pull the edgy writing of, 'not fast enough', 'standing still', or 'too late', I swear to god...
No first person narrative, that's Wally's thing, do a throwback, third person with the silly titles other than fastest man alive, like 'Scarlet Speedster', 'Monarch of Motion, 'Crimson Comet', 'Sultan of Speed', yeah there dorky but so is Barry, embrace it.
His first fight with Turtle Man has a lasting consequence in how he handles things in the future, as in outsmarting his opponents with maneuvers other than "running fast", or through his knowledge of science, or through trickery.
Introduces the various Rogues, of course, but not having any of them team up till much later. Go back to them just being thieves, etc, not killers or major villains (yes, this includes characters like Grodd and Abra), who first were just in it for the score, now becoming attached to the thrill of going up against the Flash.
Rogues all built they're own technology and weapons, classic science vs science in their battles.
No Iron Heights, that was from Wally's run and it can stay there
No Star Labs either.
No mentions or cameos of fairly recent characters in the CCPD, no Capt Farryle, no Sighn, no Patty or August. They all came in later years in comics, dont shoehorn them in. Better yet, dont really spend that much time at the CCPD. Focus more of Barry being a research scientist instead.
Introduce Albert Desmond as Mr Element and Dr Alchemy, but shows how Barry and Al became friends after Al reformed.
Make Ralph Dibny apart of the supporting cast, how Barry and Ralph met and adventures they had before Ralph met Sue. Better yet, make Sue eventually apart of the supporting cast too.
Bring back old friendships like with Solovar in Gorilla City, Dexter Myles from the Flash Museum, etc.
Have the time this is all happening be ambiguous, make the setting, the design of certain characters and landscape a mixture of the time periods between 50s-80s, when Barry's first comics ran.
Barry Allen the Flash is over 60 years old, embrace that.
Bring back Barry's Silver Age quirks. He always late, he's slow moving and lazy. He's both super observant and oblivious. Hates mornings. Can't sit like a normal person. He is a meticulous worker, very intelligent, built his own time machine, ring and outfit. He has corny humor and like puns. Barry loves kids and tries to be 'hip' with the current lingo, much to everyone's embarrassment. Basically old man in a young person's body.
No mention of anything that has to do with the 'Speed Force', I swear to god I dont want even hints to it. That came out Wally's run, and the concept is just used for convulted writing, and ass pulls, I'm tired of it.
Instead, focus on Barry's ability to travel through time and to other worlds. He can time travel with no consequences, the future is actually pretty improved from the present, Barry has adventures in the past and future. Have other world/doppelganger shenanigans. Bring back Golden Age heroes like Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick, and Max Mercury (who Barry calls Quicksilver) who are just from different worlds that Barry meet and teams up with.
Barry Allen is originally a character who got his name and super powers from his favorite superhero in comics who later found Jay to be a real person. His later adventures show him that he is a comic book character of Earth Prime, and he later meets Tanaki Rei who was inspired to be the Flash from Silver Age comics, and also Barry meets DC comic writers and editors is certain issues. Embrace the meta, this is the perfect character to do that and have fun with it.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that the people of the 25th century think of Iris, a non-powered female reporter, as the head of the Flash family. Not Jay, the first Flash (who is still trapped, btw) or Barry, the one who people mostly associate with the Flash but the woman who raised four speedsters (five if we include Bart). This is awsome.
Also, future female Flashes… Jesse or maybe, hopefully Irey.
Also, also, can we, at least for now, associate the West family more with Speedsters than the Allens? Iris is still a West, the same goes for both Wallys (Wallies?), Daniel was a West, while right now the only Allen is Barry(and no the alien Bart does not count).
Pain? Pal, this is nothing compared to the last time I was captured. They hit me so hard, my molars came out. You... you’re a lightweight.
Jay Garrick in The Flash (2016) #794