An afternoon at the gallery.
With Wally and Linda supposedly out of the picture, the Replicant and Abra Kadabra team up to solidify their plans for destroying the Dark Flash and his fellow speedsters. Jay Garrick, meanwhile, is putting his team together with a secret plan for defeating their enemies. The whole situation does an about-face with the sudden and unexpected appearance of Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash. He wants in on the action and a hand in destroying the Flash legacy forever!
Here Abra Kadabra turns Bart (Impulse) into a puppet.
These are two of my favorite characters. I’m a huge fan of Bart Allen/Impulse and I really like Max Mercury as well.
A big reason for that is the dynamic between the two characters and the way the Impulse title was being written at the time. Comics today generally doesn’t do such a good job with ‘young’ characters anymore. Too often, writers are caught up in two things: 1. Writing a younger character’s voice way, way older than they should (wise cracking wordly-wise youngster) 2. Writing the book way too dark in tone and removing fun and wonder from the equation.
Impulse wasn’t like that, Impulse hit a home run because it still managed to take the character and make him a real teenager with friends, school, a home life and all these other little nuances that rounded out the character and made him real. Peter David never managed to do it right in Young Justice and certainly when Geoff Johns came along and DC relaunched the characters as the new incarnation of the Teen Titans everything ran off the rails.
It is probably the single most deciding factor in why the Bart Allen Flash book never really did that well. You’d have a lot of trouble getting people to admit to that though. Robin for the most part was written really well, so was the run of the Blue Beetle from a few years back (although again, I stopped reading.buying so Lord only knows where they’ve gone with the characters since).
Check out my Comic Art Fans Galleries! © All scans copyright PJ Mungiole 2011 - may not be reproduced, reused, reposted without permission.
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With Wally and Linda supposedly out of the picture, the Replicant and Abra Kadabra team up to solidify their plans for destroying the Dark Flash and his fellow speedsters. Jay Garrick, meanwhile, is putting his team together with a secret plan for defeating their enemies. The whole situation does an about-face with the sudden and unexpected appearance of Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash. He wants in on the action and a hand in destroying the Flash legacy forever!
Here Abra Kadabra turns Bart (Impulse) into a puppet.
These are two of my favorite characters. I’m a huge fan of Bart Allen/Impulse and I really like Max Mercury as well.
A big reason for that is the dynamic between the two characters and the way the Impulse title was being written at the time. Comics today generally doesn’t do such a good job with ‘young’ characters anymore. Too often, writers are caught up in two things: 1. Writing a younger character’s voice way, way older than they should (wise cracking wordly-wise youngster) 2. Writing the book way too dark in tone and removing fun and wonder from the equation.
Impulse wasn’t like that, Impulse hit a home run because it still managed to take the character and make him a real teenager with friends, school, a home life and all these other little nuances that rounded out the character and made him real. Peter David never managed to do it right in Young Justice and certainly when Geoff Johns came along and DC relaunched the characters as the new incarnation of the Teen Titans everything ran off the rails.
It is probably the single most deciding factor in why the Bart Allen Flash book never really did that well. You’d have a lot of trouble getting people to admit to that though. Robin for the most part was written really well, so was the run of the Blue Beetle from a few years back (although again, I stopped reading.buying so Lord only knows where they’ve gone with the characters since).
Check out my Comic Art Fans Galleries! © All scans copyright PJ Mungiole 2011 - may not be reproduced, reused, reposted without permission.
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