Tag Archives: The Flash

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Major Spoilers Podcast #515: The Flash: Born to Run

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast: We are running out of time, which means that only The Flash can save us! Jamie Foxx looks blue, and that Man of Steel trailer is here. All this, plus REVIEWS!

 

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: The Flash: Born to Run (1992)

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It comes as no surprise that Young Zach has not read too many comics featuring The Flash. This week, the Major Spoilers Podcast fixes that by not only looking back at the origin of Wally West, but also the introduction of a new Flash writer, one Mr. Mark Waid.


When Wally West, the adolescent nephew of the Flash’s fiancée, accidentally gained powers of super speed, he became the Scarlet Speedster’s sidekick. Growing up as his hero’s protégé, Kid Flash had a childhood of amazing action and adventure. But on the day that the Flash died, Wally’s carefree adolescence abruptly ended and his life as an adult began. THE FLASH: BORN TO RUN looks back at Wally’s earliest days as the Kid Flash and explores the gamut of his emotions and experiences from his first day as a child hero to his succession of Barry Allen as the new Flash. A journey full of humor and drama, this story shows just how much Wally West loves being the fastest man alive.

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REVIEW: The Flash #0

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Barry Allen is the fastest man alive. Protector of Central City, the Flash leads the way for the Silver Age in the comic book industry, until his heroic death in 1985. (You know, when death actually meant something.) For almost twenty years, the Scarlet Speedster has remained dead, one of the longest runs for a superhero. With the new 52 launching, it seems appropriate this Flash should lead the way again. What does the new era have in store for our resurrected hero?

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Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Harry Lampert/Gardner Fox Memorial Edition

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Yesterday, during my shift at Gatekeeper Hobbies, (Huntoon & Gage, Topeka!  Ask us about our Heavy Metal back issues!) I was overcome by a sudden sadness at the loss of Jay Garrick, elder statesman of the DC Universe.  During Wally West’s run as the Flash in the 1990′s, Jay was used as an avuncular presence, a superhero’s superhero, the guy who had it all together thanks to 50 years of thinking at super-speed.  After the Crisis on Infinite Earths removed Superman’s Golden Age origins, Jay replaced him as the first superhuman of the modern continuity, always ready with some folksy wisdom and a tip of his silvery hubcap hat.  Still, I am a fan of the New 52, and I actually believe that, overall, it was a move that will help to guarantee the longevity of the characters and DC Comics as a publisher.  Heck, I even like Nicola Scott’s redesign of the new Jay Garrick.  Still, I can’t help but remember the good times of the original Golden Age Flash.

The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) once nearly bought a WWI doughboy helmet in an antique store, but couldn’t figure out a way to complete the look without hurting a canary, asking:
Is it worth the loss/alteration/retconning of a favorite character if it seems to be for a greater good?

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REVIEW: The Flash #12

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Barry Allen has been back for about two years now, resurrected from the dead after he sacrificed his life to save the multiverse in 1985. His second life has been pretty rough; he lost his mother, went back in time to rescue her only to reboot the entire DC Universe (see Flashpoint). Now, in this universe, he NEVER married Iris West, his sidekick and protege Wally is missing, and superheroes are public enemy number one.

Good going Barry.

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Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Where’s Wally West Edition?

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Interestingly, my last several reviews have all dealt with the concept of the legacy hero (both Nite-Owl and Jay Garrick are the progenitors of an identity, while Tommy Watts is dealing with the spectre of his dead brother.)  It got me thinking about the nature of the “Legacy Hero,” which then made me realize that the most successful ones have all been returned to their secondary roles.  Even Dick Grayson’s much-publicized step up to the big cape has been reverted, which says something about permanance in comics (though that’s probably a different MS-QOTD.)

The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is the Sensational Character Find of 1940, asking:
Which Legacy Hero should be allowed (or should have CONTINUED to be) in the big leagues?

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INTERVIEW: Michael Rosenbaum on playing the Flash

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Michael Rosenbaum makes his triumphant return as the beloved voice of The Flash in JUSTICE LEAGUE: DOOM, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies. The film will be available everywhere today (Tuesday, February 28, 2012).

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