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April 30, 2008

Barry Allen, the Most Famous Flash, Back From the Dead
— Ace

Was this guy really that impressive? I always thought he was pretty damn boring.

But I never really followed the Flash, and I've always had this bias against blond male superheroes.

Yes, including Captain America.

Posted by: Ace at 06:17 AM | Comments (22)
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1 Flashback: how your superheroes would likely vote.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 30, 2008 06:23 AM (ujg0T)

2 More old school heroes. Less of this latter-day nihilist crap.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at April 30, 2008 06:32 AM (3t+fo)

3 Thanks for the linkage, Ace.

Posted by: Robert at April 30, 2008 07:03 AM (hcsKC)

4 Back when I worked in a comic shop, I used to joke that only two superheroes were truly dead-Jason Todd & Bucky. Whoops

Posted by: HowardDevore at April 30, 2008 07:11 AM (+5FeQ)

5 Every superhero has died and come back from the dead. Even the lamest ones that no one wants back.

Posted by: Z Ryan at April 30, 2008 07:32 AM (PDeVA)

6 I like the one from the forties, where he put wings on a WWI helmet to make him look like Mercury. No pretense at being able to keep a secret identity.

Posted by: Matt at April 30, 2008 07:49 AM (ecpMe)

I never really liked the Flash.

I mean, his superpower was that he could run away really fast. Why wasn't he called "Le Flash"?

Posted by: Veeshir at April 30, 2008 08:10 AM (ThMnZ)

I just read the DC Universe #0 where the character makes his supposed comeback. He never actually appears, just narrates with each box of text carrying a lightning bolt to suggest who is speaking.

Considering that this series is a sequel to the one that killed him off, I wouldn't count on this marking a permanent return of the character. The current '52 Universes' context has plenty of Barry Allens running about but none of them are the guy who died in the first Crisis series. There are all sorts of games Morrison can play with that and Morrison does love his games.

Posted by: epobirs at April 30, 2008 08:53 AM (zAbJY)

9 Captain America was secretly an assimilated Jew if that makes you feel any better, neocon scum...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at April 30, 2008 09:52 AM (pmtKk)

10 I never really cared for Barry Allen or Hal Jordan, but old time fans love em, for some reason.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 30, 2008 03:50 PM (3+3kx)

11 Are there ANY DC superheroes now who have not been dead?
Superman was dead. Supergirl was dead. Wonder Woman was dead, and so was her mom. Green Lantern AND Green Arrow were dead. The Spectre... well, that's his schtick anyway, never mind him. Martian Manhunter's been dead. The second Robin was dead. Hawkman's been dead a bunch of times. Aquaman's still dead as far as I can tell, except there's two characters that... oh never mind them, he's dead.
Who wears tights and fights evil that has not been dead, at DC Comics? Is it a fucking JOB REQUIREMENT now or what?

Posted by: Stoop Davy Dave at April 30, 2008 04:52 PM (Wgd0G)

12 "I mean, his superpower was that he could run away really fast." Maybe so, but he's really, really good at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIn9IaUUeco

Posted by: mightysamurai at April 30, 2008 06:42 PM (K9MMt)

13 "Who wears tights and fights evil that has not been dead, at DC Comics?" Of the top of my head: Steel (at least I don't think he has) Cyborg Nightwing Robin III Plastic Man

Posted by: mightysamurai at April 30, 2008 06:49 PM (K9MMt)

14 The Flash was the product of a freak accedent when BARRY ALLEN was doing work during a thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck some chemicals and spilled them all over him thus crating the fastests man alive then there was KID FLASH alis WALLEY WEST who was the victim of the same freak accedent. And i save the entire first season episodes of CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER FREINDS on DVD

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at April 30, 2008 07:40 PM (fdeME)

15 Of all those, Plastic Man and Robin (Nightwing) are the only long-term guys that haven't died.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 30, 2008 07:59 PM (3+3kx)

John Wesley Schipp is calling his agent right now about resurrecting "The Flash" tv show.

Anyway, to quote Darth Vader:

"Yippee!"

Posted by: hadsil at May 01, 2008 12:14 AM (Ftlvo)

17 Plastic Man HAD ORGIONALY BEEN EEL OBRIAN and SUPERMAN AND JIMMY OLSEN WHEN VISTING KANDOR THE SHRUNKEN KRITONIA CITY OFTEN APPEARED AS NIGHTWING AND FLAMEBIRD

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 01, 2008 05:36 AM (GteSE)

18 MS #13/ "Steel (at least I don't think he has) "

Steel's been dead. I'd look it up if I were slightly less lazy.

"Cyborg
Nightwing
Robin III "

Okay, maybe not them. If they did die I missed it.

Plastic Man"

Thanks to Joe Kelly, Plastic Man spent 3000 years on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean as disintegrated plastic crumbs. With no dialogue. That's as close as he's physically able to get to being dead.

Posted by: Stoop Davy Dave at May 02, 2008 07:05 PM (gclsp)

19 Oh! Superboy was dead and still is. Superman Earth-2 edition was dead and still is, and so is the Earth-2 Batman. In fact, once ya start counting alternative versions of DC superheroes, the mortality rate gets pretty damn scary pretty quickly.
Heh!
I remember in the 1990s, when Marvel brought Jean Grey back from the dead (as herself, I mean, because they'd already brought back a bunch of versions of her, too), it offended me and pissed me off so much that I stopped reading the entire company's line of titles.
Can't be that picky NOW, can I?

Posted by: Stoop Davy Dave at May 02, 2008 07:10 PM (gclsp)

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