Comments on: Relaunching the Flash—again

By: Flash Hints from Wizard World Chicago « Speed Force

Flash Hints from Wizard World Chicago « Speed Force — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:50:47 +0000

[...] side… who knows what they consider “foreseeable” at this point. (And they have misled us on future Flash plans [...]

By: Change in the Wind « Speed Force

Change in the Wind « Speed Force — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:08:47 +0000

[...] on The Flash have continued to drop since last summer’s relaunch brought Wally West back from limbo and introduced the Flash [...]

By: Kelson

Kelson — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:24:25 +0000

Baron also had the advantage that he (appropriately enough) hit the ground running. Instead of pausing to tell an origin story, he started with Wally as the Flash, spent the first issue introducing him in that role and jumped right into a story.

Decompressed storytelling can work, even with a guy whose claim to fame is that he’s really fast (see “Wonderland,” for instance—and, in retrospect, “Ignition” works quite well, though it was excruciatingly slow one month at a time), but it’s not a good choice for a series launch.

I suspect if they’d made “Lightning in a Bottle” 3 issues instead of 6, and had ended the first issue with Bart putting on the costume (which, IIRC, happened at the end of the second issue), the fan response would have been much more positive.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:41:45 +0000

My signing up will depend on if it’s the Waid from the first fifty or so issues of his Flash run, or Cobalt Blue Waid writing the book. But then again, I’m drifting away from comics altogether, so the fact that I’m considering it is a pretty big pull.

I am amused by one thing – the Bart Allen Flash book lasted one issue less than Mike Baron’s relaunch of Wally West. Baron wrote, by my count six stories – Vandal Savage, Kilg%re, Speed Demon, Red and Blue Trinity, Chunk, and Velocity-9 with Vandal Savage again. The new book managed what, two story-arcs (with maybe a single issue story thrown in the middle)?