Re: ROGUES' REVENGE #1:

( THANK you, Geoff Johns. )

Very good thing about rereading my FLASH: getting reintroduced to two of my favorite members of the Keystone PD (okay, so they're just about the only members of the KPD we know, but still), who've gotten a little bit sidelined lately. Jared Morillo is a too-smart, much-too-arrogant homicide detective from L.A. Fred Chyre is a blue-collar beat cop ( Read more... )

We are, unfortunately, better than halfway through Geoff Johns' last storyline in FLASH. *pauses for respectful silence* So I decided that this might be a good time to go back and reread his run as a whole, and see what it looks like in retrospect. Comments may be forthcoming as I get farther in; I've barely gotten started and I can already tell ( Read more... )

Jay! I have a Jay!

Jay shiiiny.

*plays with Jay*

And he comes with a teeny comic book! I've read Jay's origin before, but he and Joan always make me smile. "I guess I'm just a freak of science...anyhow...will you go to that dance with me?"

Also: FLASH #207 poster

*covets*

When I called it a piece of exercise equipment? I was kidding. But no. From FLASH #263:

"Although [Flash] uses his unique cosmic treadmill for time-travel--a simple adjustment renders it ideal for exercise!"

Uh-huh. Very practical, our Barry ( Read more... )

So pre-Crisis? Barry Allen's full first name was...Barrence. Yes. Barrence Allen, the Flash.

*stifles utterly helpless giggle fit*

Admittedly the current version, Bartholomew, isn't much better, but still. Barrence.

Now I'm imagining him doing Embarrassing Name Bonding with Hal (Harold) Jordan...

After writing my previous entry on weirdness in FLASH, I started thinking a little harder about one of the items on the list, namely Barry's childhood comics hero turning out to be a real person, and, you know, this comes out to be even weirder than I thought ( Read more... )

So I read FLASH #350. Last issue of the Barry Allen run. And they wrap up the plot (and I could just hear all the people who were reading it at the time shrieking "FINALLY!") and touch base with some supporting characters, and the Rogues are actually kind of cute the way they keep proclaiming they hate each other and yet end up hanging out ( Read more... )

...oh, lord, now I'm buying old Flash issues. Which, yes, okay, rabid fangirl there anyway, but I had an agreement with myself that it was a post-Crisis thing. Ooops. *glares at Ebay*

Of course, this does mean that if I ever write that Barry/Hal I will have some faintest idea what I'm talking about...

...oh. Oh. No, I don't entirely buy the League's behavior, but...oh god. Like that. *long breath* I'm not crying. I'm not crying--ah, who'm I kidding? It's FLASH. I have no defenses ( Read more... )