There’s another post on The Source today that might be of interest to speedster fans. It’s got some pretty significant spoilers for this week’s Green Lantern, so I’ll continue after the cut.
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SPOILERS for Green Lantern #59
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It looks like Parallax wants to speed things up!
Black Flash, Blue Lantern, Parallax…Barry Allen has gone through quite a few transformations in his short* time back. It fits in with the classics from the Silver Age: Puppet Flash, Big Head Flash, Fat Flash, Old Flash… Hmm… I should write up a post about the Many Transformations of the Flash. Though I’m likely to be too busy to research that sometime soon.
Actually, if someone would like to write that up as a guest post, I’d definitely appreciate it!
*Well, really it’s been 2 1/2 years, but since he’s only finished one story arc in his main series, it feels like a short time.
That’s not even counting all the transformations Wally has been through: Porcupine Man, Big Head Flash (during the “Gorilla Warfare” crossover with the old GL title), JLApe (ok, so that was Walter West), Eclipso-Flash, and all the transformations the various Flashes have gone through in JLA/JLE (Barry was turned into a tree once, I think). And of course, Jay got turned into a Cobalt Blue at one point.
Okay, what is this Eclipso-Flash because although I’ve read the name Eclipso, I haven’t a clue and he wasn’t listed in the main web page Index for Flash stuff.
Barry is not looking too good in that picture. (Oh dear lord…NOW would be the time for Reverse Flash to show up to taunt Barry some more! I’d pay to see Thawne get his ass kicked by ParaFlash.)
A few (ok, a lot of) years ago, Eclipso took over most of the heroes (and a few villains) in the DCU during the Eclipso: Darkness Within crossover that ran through the annuals. Wally got possessed in his annual (#5) and remained an Eclipso through the JLE annual and the final part of the storyline/crossover.
There was also a villain called Deconstructo who took on the JLE while Wally was a member and had the power to change people/objects into all kinds of wierd shapes. I think he debuted in JLE #37.
Oh…that explains it. Never got to see the annuals.
I prefer the wallet-stealing scene 🙂
Me, too….although I can’t figure out where the writer thinks Barry keeps that wallet. I always assumed he speed left it somewhere safe and then simply went back for it just before resuming being simply Barry Allen. Look at his suit…WHERE was that wallet when every muscle bulge (within decency) is shown?
Maybe one day they’ll do a Flash Fact on this. ;P
The best name the ‘net has for this baby is “Barralax.” Catchy! Start spreading it, people!
“Barrallax!” I like it!
Eh…no. Anything that ends in ‘lax’ sounds too much like a popular pharmaceutical product.
That’s why it sounds good.
There really crass joke in there, but you’ll have to figure it out for yourself because mom taught be better manners. 9.9
Flashallax…
or Allenax
I call it “one heck of a future action figure or statue sale.”
2 1/2 years? Seriously? Where did that figure come from?
DC Universe #0. April 2008. Big news blitz.
Or if you want the in-panel appearance, June 2008 in Final Crisis #2.
Either way…it’s been 2 1/2 years since DC brought Barry Allen back from the dead.
Excuse my brain fart. For some reason, I thought you had meant 2 1/2 years back in DC Universe time, not real-world time. 🙂