Well, Impulse, anyway. Be sure to tune in to Smallville this week as Bart Allen (Kyle Gallner) returns for the season finale, “Doomsday.”
Black Canary and Impulse. Image c/o KryptonSite.
Bart previously appeared in the fourth-season episode, “Run,” for which he was billed as the Flash, and the sixth-season “Justice” (alongside Green Arrow, Cyborg, and Aquaman), where he was given the name Impulse. This time, Justice League members include Black Canary and Green Arrow.
Read up on Bart’s past Smallville Appearances at Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning.
Kryptonsite is reporting that Kyle Gallner will return as Bart Allen in the May 14 season finale of Smallville, “Doomsday.”
This version of Bart originally appeared in the fourth-season episode, “Run” (2004), in which he was billed in advertisements as The Flash, then returned for the sixth-season episode “Justice” (2007). This time he was working with Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Cyborg, forming the beginnings of what would one day become the Justice League of America. His teammates gave him a different code-name, though: Impulse.
According to Kryptonsite, Justice Leaguers Green Arrow and Black Canary will also appear in the episode, along with Cosmic Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Which reminds me, I really need to get around to watching the Geoff Johns-scripted LSH episode sometime. I wonder if Smallville is on Hulu or something.
(Via Prime at Speedster Site)
Geoff Johns was all over the place this week, talking with Hero Complex about several projects including Flash: Rebirth, to Newsarama about his Smallville episode, Legion, and to Wizard about the comic book projects he has for 2009.
Regarding Flash: Rebirth, he tells Hero Complex about series losing their focus:
When the book starts to not be about that, maybe it needs to refocus. Writing Flash with Wally West, he was kind of the sidekick to Barry Allen, the original, then he became the main Flash after Barry left and died. But you look at what the theme of Flash’s book has been for the last 200-something issues with Wally West and it’s been about a man trying to fill someone else’s boots. It doesn’t really have anything to do with speed. I mean, it has something to do with speed, but it was not totally what the book was about. The new Flash that I’m doing is all about speed. What speed means. I’m sure that you have a Blackberry or cellphone, or I’m sure that you’ve downloaded songs or something and asked, “Why is it taking so long?” Everyone wants everything faster today, so speed is even more of something that we can all relate to on a different level.
I like the fact that he wants to focus the book on speed. However….
The guy writing Flash: Rebirth, who also wrote ~60 issues of the last series, feels that Wally West’s defining characteristic is being a wannabe. Remind me again why Wally’s fans should simply relax and trust him? 
