Flash Fans REJOICE! {SPOILERS}
CageNarleigh
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From a recent Bleeding Cool article:
Finally, a definitive answer to one of the biggest lingering questions of the New 52. USA Today’s Brian Truitt has the word on many, many things Flash for 2014, including the return of Wally West in Flash Annual #3 In April.
Flash alter ego Barry Allen, who plies his trade in the Central City police crime lab when not in his red costume, gets thrown into more procedural adventures when the new creative team of writers Robert Venditti and Van Jensen and artist Brett Booth debut in The Flash No. 30, out April 23.
A week later, they reintroduce Wally West, another guy who’s worn the Flash togs, into the DC Universein The Flash Annual No. 3
Finally, a definitive answer to one of the biggest lingering questions of the New 52. USA Today’s Brian Truitt has the word on many, many things Flash for 2014, including the return of Wally West in Flash Annual #3 In April.
Flash alter ego Barry Allen, who plies his trade in the Central City police crime lab when not in his red costume, gets thrown into more procedural adventures when the new creative team of writers Robert Venditti and Van Jensen and artist Brett Booth debut in The Flash No. 30, out April 23.
A week later, they reintroduce Wally West, another guy who’s worn the Flash togs, into the DC Universein The Flash Annual No. 3
Comments
M
Nothing that made Wally West a great character is going to be carried over.
M
This isn't the return of a character, it's the return of an Intellectual Property. It's a trademark renewal.
Norm Rapmund is apparently the artist introducing Wally in Flash Annual #3. He did a great Iron Fist in the style of John Byfor me at C2E2 last April. Nice guy, I really enjoyed talking to him. I don't like that blue flash image but I don't think that's his work.
You know in the old continuity there was a future version of the Flash named Jon Fox that had a blue costume...just sayin'
http://boybluesdcu.blogspot.com/2009/01/john-fox-flash-of-future.html?m=1
Every introduction of a beloved character into the New 52 reminds me of the story told about David Letterman in the early/mid-90's, during the whole "Late Night Wars" uproar.
Rumor was that NBC wasn't happy with Jay Leno's ratings early on, and quietly offered David Letterman The Tonight Show after Leno's initial contract ended. Letterman was torn, because The Tonight Show was what he had always wanted.
After speaking with Johnny Carson about the offer, Letterman came to realize the show that he was being offered was not "The Tonight Show" in his head... it was merely a timeslot that would never be the show he wanted.
Wally West may be coming to the New 52 at some point... but it won't be the "Wally West" that the older fans want.
Bleeding Cool: A Black Wally West From DC Comics?
I'm so thrilled that another beloved character from my childhood is being altered to fit a more modern, politically correct mold. Aren't you? But wait, it just occurred to me... instead of changing old characters into different nationalities, why couldn't DC make some new characters that aren't white? Or is that too hard?
Oh well. It is what it is.
Pretty much my most common response to anything these days... "it is what it is."
This will at least shut some of them up.
DC's not going back to the old DCU. It ain't gonna happen. Too many egos involved.
The legacy characters are boned.
Absolutely nothing I liked about the Wests had to do with their being white.
If the quality of writing is on par with that of Arrow, I'm in.
If the actor in the TV series was the best person to big Wally to life isn't Caucasian, that's one thing. If all this was altered to make a racially diverse cast, then it sucks. That means the racial composite of the actor & character was too major of a factor.
It reminds me of how Alan Scott was deemed gay & Booster Gold Canadian. Its like when famous people are caught making slurs against a minority, then saying "it's okay/I didn't mean anything by it. I have a (insert minority) friend!"
Remember the Justice League cartoon? I think fans wanted Hal, but they accepted Stewart. Sure the character was altered, but they didn't make Hal or Kyle a minority to add diversity into the mix.
M
I'm all for racially-diverse casts whenever possible.
The only way to get beyond tokenism is to cast as diversely as possible, so we get to the point we don't even notice.
If the actor best to play Wally isn't Caucasian, I can rationalize the difference from the source material. If they used a minority Flash instead of Wally, that'd be cool. When they start reworking characters to make the universe more diverse, I kind of have an issue. The reasoning behind the Is something I don't agree with.
M
this is a great interview with Dwayne McDuffie on this very subject.