He once again takes on the roll of the Flash, teams up with Wally and Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, and Wally couldn’t be happier. The title of the story is pretty self-explanatory: At the very end of “Flash” #73, Barry Allen shows up, alive but with some memory loss. But more important than that, it plays with the theme that defines so much of that run – Wally’s feeling of legacy to Barry’s Flash – and the theme Waid was trying to leave behind – Wally’s sense of inadequacy in comparison to Barry. If any one story could be called the definitive Wally West story, it is probably “The Return of Barry Allen.” This is a story fairly early in Waid’s nearly decade-long run on the title, and sets up many of the threads Waid would pull on for the duration of the run.
New John Allison, a Lemire-Giffen team-up & more top comics for 9/18 And if that wasn’t enough comic book nonsense, the loss of his family turned the usually happy Wally into a haunted character, and Tom King and Clay Mann’s “Heroes in Crisis” cemented that pretty firmly.īut this week, Wally is getting a new miniseries all to himself, “Flash Forward,” and so I decided to write about four of my favorite Wally West stories. And then “Flashpoint” erased him from existence, rewrote him as a completely different character, then retconned that character into the original Wally’s cousin when that Wally returned. When Barry returned, Wally was put on the back burner.
Over the course of Mark Waid’s and Geoff Johns’ runs on the title, readers watched Wally move out of the shadow of his uncle, Barry Allen, the previous Flash, get married and become a father, all while fighting both classic and new Rogues. Wally was an everyman, a happy-go-lucky guy who LOVED being a superhero. He wasn’t like my other favorite DC heroes, the Bat family.
#WALLY WEST TOP SPEED SERIES#
I started reading the series right around the time of 1994’s “Zero Hour” event and never missed an issue of Wally’s adventures. Throughout the ‘90s and early ‘00s, those words appeared at the beginning of pretty much every issue of “The Flash.” “My name is Wally West, and I’m the Flash, the fastest man alive.” By MATTHEW LAZORWITZ, WMQ Comics senior contributor
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