Don’t sweat it. Stop worrying. I know I’m using a GL name, and not something Flashy (particularly like Wally East but trust me on this one. I’ve read Green Lantern: Rebirth. And then I read it again, b/c it was so good. And then I collected EVERY SINGLE ISSUE I could get of GL that had Geoff Johns’ name on it. Trust me, you can bet that Johns won’t let anyone down, especially not the devoted following Wally’s received in the … how many DECADES has it been again since Crisis? Only one? Funny, it felt longer to those of us whose minds were travelling a good bit faster than the speed of sound as they read about a hero who made Warp Factor 6 eat his dust.

Ok, so that never actually happened, and WF6 doesnt even have a mouth to eat dust with, but that’s not the point. the Point is that you can trust GJ to do the absolute best job that can be done with ALL of the Flashes, past and present, and I say this with conviction. If GL:Rebirth is any indication of what Flash: Rebirth will be like, you can bet there will be a significant focus on anyone remotely connected with costumes that feature lightning bolts. All the Flashes, the Black Flash, and the Rogues are guaranteed. And probably a significant amount of Grodd and Gorilla City. And definitely the Speed Force. And Hal Jordan, not only as a friend of Barry’s, but as someone who recently went through his own Rebirth. Anything that was good in any comic book that had the Flash featured prominently in it will likely at least have a cameo somewhere. Just wait and read it and if I’m wrong, you can say anything you want about the GLs without a complaint in me.

THAT’S the kind of confidence Geoff Johns has inspired me with.

See you Later, I see a bunch of fireworks, and its not July… crap its the war of light, gotta go!

Don’t want to offend anyone, but that’s my soapbox. Plus, if Barry returns, it will officially mean that NO ONE in comics ever stays dead. Since Jason, Bucky, Supergirl etc came back, he was the last one. If we must revive him, keep Wally in the main Flash book and sideline Barry!

And I really hope DC doesn’t kill him off or stick him on Earth 49 or something like that because they don’t know what to do with him once Barry Allen becomes the Flash again.

I like Wally as the Flash and I enjoyed watching him grow as a character. He’s one of the first, if not only, sidekicks who took over for their mentor. It’s a shame that’s going to be taken away from him, in a sense.

I don’t expect you to see this right now. I do KNOW that a Flash fan as big as yourself will come around regardless if it’s Bart, Wally, Barry, Jay or “Hank Wilson” under the mask.

In the end, they are all great! Well, maybe not Hank.

Life = Change.

-Heater

I think DC would be better served to just put Johns back on the book. Bringing back Barry is a mistake and only serves to re-enforce the notion that nobody ever dies in a comic book. I wont be surprised when in several years we realize his legend and death were more important to the Flash, and the DC universe, than his return.

@Kcnut: I appreciate that you’re excited to get Barry back. That’s fine, and you can say so all you want here (within reason). But I resent being told that I should be happy to watch my favorite character fade into the background.

Everything I’ve read indicates that Barry is replacing Wally as the primary Flash in the DC universe. That Wally will still be around in a team book that I don’t want to read isn’t much consolation.

I do think it would be interesting to have Wally in Justice League of America (McDuffie wrote him really well in ish #23) and Barry in James Robinson’s Justice League series (due in January, around the same time Flash: Rebirth starts) with Hal and Ollie. Though I’d rather have Kyle Rayner in JLA than John Stewart (who could take Kyle’s place in GLC).