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Mark Waid back on the Flash

Kooter00Kooter00 Registered User regular
edited June 2007 in Graphic Violence
http://www.newsarama.com/heroes_philly07/DC/flash.html

Hallelujah!
As announced by Dan Didio and Bob Wayne in Philly and Heroes Con, respectively, next week's Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13 will be the last issue of the young series, which was just launched last year. Although DC is keeping mum about what happens in that pivotal issue, its story will act as a precursor to the announced return of Mark Waid to The Flash beginning in the fall with penciler Daniel Acuna (Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters).

And before the Waid-penned series officially starts with new (or, technically, old) numbering -- picking up at #231 where it left off when The Flash series ended with #230 in January 2006 -- DC will release a special issue called All Flash #1 in September. Written by Waid, the issue will feature work by a slew of DC artists, including Acuna, Karl Kershl, Shane Davis and Joe Bennett.

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  • natxcrossnatxcross Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Woohoo!

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited June 2007
    Oh fuck yeah. I just started reading through Waid's run a few months ago and it really is some solid gold superheroics. "Chain Lightning" may have caused my eyes to mist up manfully.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I don't see why they have to go back to the old numbering

    just seems kind of dumb

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    This almost seems like DC's just coming right out and saying, "Alright, alright we fucked up."

    I swear to God, if someone had once told me that I would be actively avoiding a book about Bart Allen, I would've called them a liar and insulted their clothes. Hopefully this will either lead to Bart going back to his roots as a spastic hero, with Wally or Barry coming back to be written by Waid, or Waid will do justice to Bart's character and make the whole aging thing seem worthwhile. Or they're going to kill him off.

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    I really wanted to like the Flash relaunch.

    I did not.

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I keep reading that guys name as Dan Dildo.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    This is the best choice. Let's face it, we all agree that the relaunch was a disaster (thank you very much Bilson and Di Meo). Marc Guggenheim mae it a bit better, but really, it was just a sinking ship.

    Takes us home Waid, take us home.

    And Daniel Acuna? Im swooning. Seriously guys, you should see me swoon.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I dont really like the choice of Acuna, but Waid is always outstanding.

    Maybe they will bring Wally AND Barry back and it will be like a FLASH CORPS thing.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Man, bad news for Guggenheim there. I was actually tempted to get on the Flash bandwagon when he joined, seeing as I liked his work on Hyperion vs. Nighthawk and Blade. Oh well, good for you Flash fans then.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited June 2007
    This and putting Simone on Wonder Woman are really good ideas that probably should have been made when the books relaunched, but you know? I'm fine with it happening now. Or soon, whatever. Flash and Wonder Woman should be top-tier titles, and it's nice to have top-tier talent back on them.

    Heinberg doesn't count until he can deliver more than six issues in a year.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I agree, I actually really loved the Heinberg WW issues that came out, but the scheduling delays have made it into a complete travesty.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Now we need a new all star team for Green Arrow and we'll be all set. Let's keep this damn train moving here.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    JLA still needs a writer I trust. (Meltzer is okay) But they wont announce the next writer till San Diego.

    And I would rather see an all-star team try to fix Nightwing than Green Arrow

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Balefuego wrote: »
    JLA still needs a writer I trust. (Meltzer is okay) But they wont announce the next writer till San Diego.

    And I would rather see an all-star team try to fix Nightwing than Green Arrow

    Nightwing has been fixed. You may not care for Wolfmans last arc, but trust me...Nightwing has been fixed.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Nightwing is no longer awful but its a middling book when it could be so much more.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Now we need a new all star team for Green Arrow and we'll be all set. Let's keep this damn train moving here.

    Christos Gage. The dude nailed Ollie in his Deadshot mini, and he writes fun, scrappy superhero stuff with a lot of heart. Really, pretty much anyone but Winick would be just divine.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    THIS.

    IS.

    JAWSOME.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Munch wrote: »
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Now we need a new all star team for Green Arrow and we'll be all set. Let's keep this damn train moving here.

    Christos Gage. The dude nailed Ollie in his Deadshot mini, and he writes fun, scrappy superhero stuff with a lot of heart. Really, pretty much anyone but Winick would be just divine.

    And no more Scott McDaniel. I think I heard you say you liked him Munch, but I just couldn't see it. Awful match for the book.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Seriously.

    I am doing air guitar right now

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Furu wrote: »
    Seriously.

    I am doing air guitar right now

    To what song?

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Furu wrote: »
    Seriously.

    I am doing air guitar right now

    To what song?

    I just made one up

    DANANANANA WAID IS WRITING FLASH AGAIN DANANANANA GONNA BE AWESOME DANANAN. DANANANANAAAA.

    WAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIID

    meedlymeedlymeeeeee

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    And no more Scott McDaniel. I think I heard you say you liked him Munch, but I just couldn't see it. Awful match for the book.

    I think he ranges between good and awful. Like, I can be looking at his stuff and for just a second say, "Man, this dude's like Phil Hester only a little bit worse," and then I hit a panel where someone's eye is sliding off their face, or their jaw's all distended, or some other anatomical monstrosity presents itself.

    I do respect his speed though. It seems like he's always got a ton of projects floating around.

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    McDaniel can be really good but I wasn't feeling it on GA either. His stuff on Nightwing was great. Really kinetic, acrobatic stuff. It really felt like characters were moving through an environment.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    DMAC should draw Green Arrow.

    Featuring a team up with Canadian Shield.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I liked McDaniel on Batman

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  • DrakeonDrakeon Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Interesting, the Flash relaunch totally sucked, so I wonder who this new series will be about? I guess it could be Barry, Wally or Bart couldn't it?

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    Or...

    jumpin.jpg

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited June 2007
    Bad Karma wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    JLA still needs a writer I trust. (Meltzer is okay) But they wont announce the next writer till San Diego.

    And I would rather see an all-star team try to fix Nightwing than Green Arrow

    Nightwing has been fixed. You may not care for Wolfmans last arc, but trust me...Nightwing has been fixed.

    Wolfman was great until Andreyko's annual

    then Wolfman is shit because he can't fucking touch that

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  • KumaKuma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Balefuego wrote: »
    JLA still needs a writer I trust. (Meltzer is okay) But they wont announce the next writer till San Diego.
    but.. but.. I like the new JLA creative team

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Meltzer is ok, but he's only on the book till issue #12

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited June 2007
    sending hatemail to DC

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Oh

    Oh dear.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited June 2007
    look

    i don't mind bringing back Wally

    or fuck, as much as I hate to say it, even Barry

    but don't fucking kill bart

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Yeah.

    It's a pretty shitty move there if they do.

    But they might not kill him.

    At least they aren't going to rape him first.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited June 2007
    I dunno

    look at all the holes in his costume

    Dr. Light may have already gotten to him

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    man, Dr. Light's got no aim.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    You might want to throw a spoiler on that Keith.

    EDIT - Eh, fuck it, I didn't know it's on the front page of Newsarama.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited June 2007
    plus

    you know

    it's the cover to the issue

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Keith wrote: »
    plus

    you know

    it's the cover to the issue

    That's not in shops yet.

    Man, what a faggot.

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  • übergeekübergeek Sector 2814Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    My prediction is Barry will save him by intercepting them before they reach the afterlife, and Wally appears to run him back to the world of the living.

    If that doesn't happen, Wally returns or the Legion calls down the lightning to bring Barry back.

    Or they could rescue his soul, and Barry stays in a never ending battle against Death to make sure he can't chase down Bart, then the Legion ressurect Barry not knowing that Bart is fucked. A general OH SHIT! moment ensues as we have multiple Flash's operating at once, with split stories as one goes to JLA, the other 2 stay in Flash (say Barry and Bart work on evading Death) like in GLC.


    Yeah I know none of that is very good or ideal, but hasn't Bart suffered enough bullshit from crappy writers? I'm grasping at straws as to how they can somehow not kill him without going back on their "No one comes back from the dead for quite a while" statements. Then again, depending on whoever the Legion brings bak will technically ruin that statement unless it's a Legion member that comes back to life.

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