Now the emphasis will be on a loner, and not a paragon of a family man.īrian Cunningham continues his thoughts on this change by saying: '. What makes The Flash a strong hero is his family and friends, and seeing Barry without his wife will give a whole new slant to a legacy book that's been running on family fumes for the last twenty years or more. Furthermore, every Flash in any book is related to one another: uncle, nephew, grandson, son and daughter, etc. This change reminds me what a family-based book Wally's Flash has always been it always showcased a gaggle of heroes growing up underneath each others' wings. This is about the cleverest way I can think of for DC to resolve having no more than one Flash running at top-speed at one time (apparently having five million Batmans is okay, but having two Flashes crowds the buyers' market.). But that's such a ridiculous origin, I don't really want to go into it.)īy making Iris a supporting player in Barry's book (now she's a crusading blogger, so she's hip with the times), the DC editors are essentially making sure Wally and Barry never meet. (Technically, Barry's the one who ensured Wally stood next to a weird batch of chemicals that likewise electrified him when they were doused with lightning - thus giving him super-speed. Iris West-Allen, to be exact - aka, Wally West's aunt, and the person who ushered Wally into his first meeting with the Flash, and who is in some part responsible for his receiving the power of super-speed in the first place.

That favorite is Wally West.īarry Allen, the Silver Age Flash who will be the focus of this rebooted book, used to be married to crusading reporter and time traveler Iris Allen. He’s a bachelor who has never been married.' This is the first major change in the Flash history I've heard about, and it explained to me just HOW the folks at DC planned to disappear my favorite Flash (of the five Flashes who've existed in continuity since the late 1980's/early 1990's). Last Friday, Brian Cunningham, the editor of the DCnU Flash book posted the following on The Source: 'The Flash is a single man.

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