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This honestly seems like more of a Geoff Johns issue than an actual Barry Allen thing Sarky. He is the one that wrote Barry into a corner and had him act out of character at all the wrong moments.
I also did not like what was done to Owen or Inertia either...especially Owen as I feel he had a ton of potential.
From: Turn around... | Registered: Jul 2003
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It's just really nagging me that this seems like another example of a comic writer professing love for a character but writing them as completely alien in order fulfill their own ends.
And then I stop to wonder about what Johns was actually setting up to happen in his Flash run had Flashpoint not happened. We all know he was aiming at something, with the vague mentions of Zoom's "speed soldiers", Doctor Alchemy, Abrakadabra, and how one of Wally's kids was going to betray him.
I wonder if Johns was genuienly happy writing Flashpoint, or how he wrote Barry. Didn't they say Flashpoint was only going to change a couple of things?
Another reason: I've been mulling over that idea for a Titans story I had, and I've been wondering if it would be right to have Wally mad at Barry if he learned that Barry is the one responsible for changing the universe, and essentially put his family and everyone in existence in complete danger to stop Zoom.
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There are several books and things that make me think that the Flashpoint / DCnU thing was not planned all that far in advance.
There was so much build up happening in books that just got tossed out the window with no warning. I also wonder what Geoff had planned for Barry if Flashpoint had not happened.
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The key for me is the current Flash comic is fantastic without Geoff. Manupal and Buccelato have made it DC's best series.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Gorilla Grodd as a Flash? Wild idea, huh? Solovar makes his 52 debut... doesn't look like it'll be an extended stay, though.
Wasn't Piper left for dead on the streets, like, issues ago? Did I miss follow-up to that?
The layouts on this title, along with BATWOMAN, ANIMAL MAN and SWAMP THING are the best visual things in the new DCU.
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