Hey Speed Readers,
Just a quick reminder (that I wanted to get up a lot earlier) Young Justice, featuring Kid Flash (Wally West) and Impulse (Bart Allen) as cast members will be returning from it’s mid-season hiatus tomorrow morning. The show has been on hiatus since June so many fans (like the team here at Speed Force) have been anxiously awaiting it’s return. Especially since this seems to be the only place that Wally West (and the Flash family) is getting any kind of love these days.
His role isn’t big in Flash #0, but this random suspect being arrested had a name that no doubt caught the eye of many a reader: Daniel West.
DC Comics confirms that he is Iris West’s brother, and describes him as “a classic case of juvenile delinquency.”
Flash co-writer Francis Manapul continues:
Unfortunately for him, his first major crime is foiled by Flash’s first ever outing as a superhero. In the present, after having served his debt to society, Daniel just wants his old life back. All he wants is to go back home. But what he finds is a city over run by apes, and a sister that’s nowhere to be found. Welcome home indeed. He’ll be setting forth to find his lost sister amidst the disastrous events of ‘Gorilla Warfare!’
In the pre-Flashpoint continuity, Iris had one brother, Rudolph West, one sister, Charlotte West. I’m not sure we ever saw Charlotte, but Rudolph “Rudy” West made many appearances as Wally West’s father. (I think it’s safe to assume given Daniel’s age that he doesn’t have a son named Wally.)
It looks like we’ll finally return to Iris and the other speed force castaways soon. That’s one missing West down…
This week sees the release of Flash #0, the Zero Month issue featuring the New 52 origin of Barry Allen.
Writing and art by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato.
Check out the preview on Facebook.
There’s also the trade paperback of The Road to Flashpoint, the second half of the Geoff Johns/Francis Manapul run from 2010-2011.
Make way for Hot Pursuit – the latest speedster to come out of the Speed Force!
Collects THE FLASH #8-12!
Written by: Geoff Johns, Scott Kolins
Art by: Francis Manapul, Scott Kolins
After a few hiccups, DC’s digital back-issues program seems to have shifted from three issues of Flash (1987 series) each week to two issues of Flash and two of Impulse. This week features the digital re-release of Flash #58-59 and Impulse #19-20. At this rate, the entire William Messner-Loebs/Greg LaRocque run will be available next week!
Flash #58 and Flash #59 continue the story of the Icicle’s fortune, as his grandchildren take Wally West to court over the contested will. But what does Pied Piper have to say about this wealth…and the forgotten legacy of Invasion? Power Girl guest-stars as Wally and Mason Trollbridge try to uncover the secret of a rogue agent stalking another of the Makhent family.
Impulse #19: it’s the speedster’s nightmare! Then in Impulse #20, Bart tries to learn how to live normally by learning to play baseball. Hilarity ensues.
Flash (1987-2009) on ComiXology
Impulse on ComiXology
Last week Bleeding Cool reported on a printing error in the recently-release Flash Omnibus vol.3. A few story pages near the end were printed out of order, causing the sudden arrival of Linda and Wally’s twins to make a lot less sense than it did in the original release.
James’ Musings describes the error in detail, and just how it messes with the story.
The murder of the Wests’ unborn twins at the hands of the new Zoom completely shocked readers and altered the course of the mythology. It also nearly tore apart the Wests’ marriage for over a year and half before they achieved reconciliation. So, as I said, this scene in “Rogue War” is therefore the big surprise and payoff. This is the moment where thanks to the miracle of time-travel (and only in comics can you hear a phrase like ‘spontaneous conception via time-travel’), Zoom’s triumph becomes the Wests’ triumph. That the psychotic speedster was indirectly responsible for undoing his own tragedy was additional icing on the cake.
Further discussion at the DC Archives Message Board features scans of the problem pages and an email from DC to retailers:
DC ENTERTAINMENT OFFERS REPLACEMENT COPIES OF THE FLASH OMNIBUS VOL. 3 HC
Due to an error, THE FLASH OMNIBUS BY GEOFF JOHNS VOL. 3 HC (APR120254) was printed with pages out of order. DC Entertainment announces that retailers will receive replacement copies at no cost.
To receive corrected copies of this item, retailers must remove the masthead/indicia page of the book (page 4) and return it to Diamond.
After removing page 4, DC asks retailers to destroy the error copies of the book.
All replacement requests must be received by 10/24/12. Replacement copies are expected to start shipping next month.
Retailers who return this page to Diamond by 10/24/12 will be credited for the return, and will be rebilled for the corrected edition.
If you bought one of the misprinted books, you’ll want to contact the store where you bought it to see about getting a replacement.
This week’s digital backissues at ComiXology include Flash #56-57 and Impulse #17-18.
Flash #56-57 feature a classic murder mystery, as it’s revealed that the Golden Age villain, the Icicle, had a rather large (legitimate) fortune when he died, and his will left a large amount to…the Flash? Wally West and his friends visit the Makhent mansion for the reading of the well, and one of the other heirs is found murdered in the middle of a snowstorm.
Impulse #17-18 take a break from the seriousness of the Max Mercury flashback with a pair of done-in ones. First: Bart Allen teams up with Zatanna. Do you really need to know anything else? And second, what do hyperactive speedsters dream about? Bart is trapped in a series of virtual reality scenarios.
Two entries in this week’s The Line It Is Drawn feature at Comics Should Be Good. This week’s theme was cover homages.
First up, Flash of Two Worlds featuring the Earth-1 and New 52 versions of Barry Allen, suggested by Ecovore and drawn by Xum Yukinori.
So which Flash is better, Barry Allen or Barry Allen?
And then there’s X-Men: Days of Future Past featuring a younger Wally West (Kid Flash) and Donna Troy (Wonder Girl) trapped in the alternate world of the New 52. Suggested by starpilotsix and drawn by John Trumbull.
I so wish this one was real so I could read it.
Check out the rest of the entries at Comics Should Be Good!