“This isn’t your home Barry, it’s a mirage, it’s already
screwing with you and everyone you love and pretty soon it’s going to take me
right down along with you. What should we call this brave new world that you’ve
whipped up for us? I was thinking, Flashpoint!
Now who’s the villain Flash!? Who’s the villain!“
OMG! Beardy Eo! Preview trailer can be found Here
I have no idea what’s going on but I don’t care cause he’s back and not dead/erased from history 💛
I have returned! And now to get back to the comic reviews.
This is a full length review detailing the plot of the below comic, many spoilers!
The following parts can be found here; PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5, PART 6, & PART 7
At the end of the first series of the Flash (which you can
find HERE) we found Barry Allen (the Flash) traveling to the future to be with
his resurrected wife Iris who had previously been murdered. Our favourite
villain Eobard Thawne (aka Professor Zoom/Reverse Flash or Zoomy as I like to
call him after he was nicknamed that by his friend in the comics) was dead
after Barry murdered him for trying to kill Barry’s fiancé Fiona Webb.
As you might be able to guess, considering all
my reviews are about Zoomy he returns in Wally West’s run of comics as the
Flash. Wally becomes the Flash after Barry is killed, melting into the speedforce
during Crisis on Infinite Earths (Justice League comics).
However, he turns up during a 7 part arc and so I am going
to have to review the whole damn thing. Now I don’t really enjoy Wally’s run so
please excuse any snark.
Its Christmas and the Flash family are celebrating. Wally
West (Flash Mk2 /previously Kid Flash) is dragged out for some festive heroing
by his friend and fellow speedster Jay Garrick (Grandpa Flash). Talk turns to
Wally’s girlfriend, Linda Park, and if he’ll propose, but it’s looking
unlikely. She does know his secret though. So both Flashes go and help out at
the local soup kitchen and doing other good deeds, chatting the whole time. It’s all good family festive
fun, though Flash mk2 is whining about how he isn’t a kid anymore and Santa no
longer loves him.
Flash mk2 saves a woman from getting run over, only to
discover that she has gone into labour and her husband has fallen in with a bad
crowd and is planning a robbery. They can’t move the girl, so Grandpa brings
the doctors from the hospital to her (seems irresponsible to me, like what if
they were in the middle of treating someone??). And then Flash mk2 goes to stop her
husband, Joey, from doing something stupid.
The Flashes look for Joey but he’s already clocked off from
his job as a mall Santa. He manages to steal the money but gets stopped by a
kid who’s only wish for xmas is that his dad wasn’t in jail. This pulls all the
right heart strings and Joey can’t go through with it. But then his mobster
friends arrive, feeling betrayed they open fire. The boy and Joey run only to
be saved by the Flash Mk2. The Flashes sort out the money and the boy whilst
Joey goes to find his wife. She has now had the baby and all is good with the
world (blerghhh).
The comic ends with a heart- warming get together with
Wally, Linda, Jay and his wife Joan. It’s Christmas and all is good, Linda got
Wally something he wanted and they are just kissing when the doorbell goes.
They open the door and standing there in his Flash costume is original Flash
Barry Allen!!!
I don’t think this is official but rather a ‘sports’ or ‘gym’ top from China. Found on ebay with other super hero themed men’s sports tops.
First one from the Funko Mystery Mini blind box.
And the other was originally sold with the Flashpoint Paradox film.
They are both wonderful additions to my collection.
I had some money left from an Amazon voucher and decided to spend it on this adorable Flash kids book. The book is DC comics super heroes, The Flash: Attack of Professor Zoom by Matthew Manning, published by Raintree.
The plot is that Eobard Thawne aka Professor Zoom is inpersonating the Flash whilst robbing banks and starting fires. Barry tracks him to the Flash museum, overloads his death trap and knocks Eo out, bringing him to justice.
This book is really cute and part of a series of Flash books for kids. It’s written in a really simple and charming way and even has little activities for children at the back, encouraging them to think about parts of the story and write stuff. The only thing I found odd was the Professor Zoom info page. It reads like someone has just cherry picked bits from his Wiki page. It also says he has yellow eyes, whilst saying he looks like Barry (something that got quickly reveresed in the comics on both occasions it happened).
But generally adorable and there are books for most of the villains available.
Taken from ComicVine – A preview page from Flash Rebirth. So it seems that Eobard’s plot from the N52 (check out HERE if you missed it) is being upheld. The image shows Eo (I presume and not Hunter) with Black Flash which I don’t quite … Continue reading
And considering the theme of my blog when I say important I mean relating to Eobard and the Flash 🙂
Spoilers
So Wally West 1 (ginger speedster) is trapped in the speedforce. He is from the classic comics up to Flashpoint. He witnessed that after Flashpoint some higher power fucked with time taking out ten years and also changing people’s relationships. This gave us N52.
However, no one remembers him. He tries to break through the reality barrier now it has been weakened by Darkseid’s death. He appears to various heroes but no one recognises him, not even Linda his once wife. But Barry does and so Wally manifests in the N52 universe. He explains about the past to Barry who now remembers. He also warns of the great power and impending war.
Now I presume that this will lead to various characters getting their memories back. Though I’m concerned about Eobard cause he died in Flashpoint. But as he now exists again hopefully he’ll stay that way. It would be nice if he got a bit of his old character back, as in actually being a genius scientist, engineer and speed force expert. But right now I’ll just settle for him existing and hope that he gets used again in plots.
This is just too adorable! I love it!
The stuff to make my costume arrived in time and so I will be at the Con next weekend on the Saturday in full ‘Eobeth’ Thawne get up. I’ll post a picture when the costume is all done. So if you see a female classic Reverse Flash wandering around with a male Yellow Lantern then that’s probably me. Come and say hi 🙂
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