[ SECRET POST #2710 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2710 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 029 secrets from Secret Submission Post #387.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

My essay on the subject...

[truxillogical]

Y'know what? Yes.

And first off, I like Miles Morales. I think Michael B. Jordan seems like he'll be a great Johnny Storm. And when they cast Iris in the Flash series, my first thought (and still my primary thought in regards to the entire series) is: "Oh, please cast Donald Glover as Wally West. I want to see Donald Glover as Wally West SO. BAD."

But no, I'm pissed off with the comics.

Hey, he's black now. So...no father, right? And his uncle is a criminal, sure. Oh, and "Every influence he's had is a bad one. He just needs someone to show him a better path. If nobody steps in to guide him..."

Excuse me while I throw the hell up.

Hey, Mr. Barry Whitebread Allen, can you show this poor inner-city kid some tough love to set him on the right path as his benevolent savior, because apparently, it's still the 80's and this is the only story we can tell about teenagers of color.


Wally West has always been kind of a jerk, but a sweet guy under it. Barry was his mentor and taught him a lot about being a hero, but he didn't need to save Wally. Since Bart is busy being grimdark, no reason we couldn't have gotten a cheerful, goofy, biracial Wally West. I get it, we need a reason for Barry to take over as father figure, but is this really the best one we've got. (Wally's father in canon, IRC, was also a bit of a sleaze, but Wally never liked him much, and that was part of Wally's character--he wanted people to live up to the best he believed of them and got pissed off when they didn't.)


Nevermind how much I just wish Wally had stayed in limbo. Wally is fairly unique among the superhero set in that his primary appeal is that over the course of his run as the Flash, he actually grew and changed as a character. He was always a bit sarcastic, a bit more light-hearted than most, but we actually watched him grow up from a callow youth trying to make time with all the ladies into a loving husband and a mature (but still goofy) hero. Wally actually had a journey.

So bringing him back at all is basically giving us a character who isn't Wally West. You just can't bring back Wally West into the nu52 as things stand. You can, however, create a completely different character and give him the same name.

Which seems to be DC's M.O.

Especially in the Flash universe. We've seen it with the Rogues already, haven't we?

And I...I just don't get it. I don't get why we're supposed to care, why this is supposed to be "bringing character X back." Because it's not. It's just a new character, but with the same name. At least when Marvel did that, it was in the Ultimate universe, and the 616 characters still got to be around.

I like Wally West. I love the Flash. But I haven't been reading Flash since a year into the nu52. And this...this isn't reason to start.

And while I get that it's really cool to have a main-ish* character of color (although if they really wanted to introduce a new/old character to be Barry's speedster sidekick, why not XS?), seeing everyone gushing over it hits me like a punch in the gut because...y'know, I miss Wally. I miss Flash.



*"Main-ish" because y'ever notice how DC made sure to bring back all their silver-age heroes as the straight white dudes they always were, but now that we've got them settled and in the spotlight, we can racelift the less important ones?