Justice League of America#10, Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13 and Countdown #45

So they finally did it. DC finally succumbed to the fans’ constant bitching and KILLED BART ALLEN! WHAT THE FUCK DC!? WHAT THE FUCK!?

Yup, Flash numero quatro bit the dust. I was NOT happy when Bart became The Flash in the first place, but I was willing to give him a shot much like I have the new Blue Beetle. Though it was not the most memorable debut(ok, it was shitty), I was starting to grow to the idea of Bart as the Flash. People didn’t have a problem with the idea of Bart as The Flash; him taking up that mantle had been predicted ever since he first appeared. The problem was how it was handled. Bart’s entire personality was retconned by the stupidest plot device imaginable and then when he became Flash, the first nine issues of his book turned out to feature some of the worst writing DC produced in years. Thus the fans’ bitching about killing him and bringing Wally back to ’set things right’. But once a good writer (like Guggenheim) who actually understands the character (as opposed to the the shitty OYL stories that came out) got on the book, people began to warm up to the idea of Bart as Flash pretty quickly. But then DC listened to the angry fans killed him, so much for that. Smooth move DC.

This makes me wonder what was the whole point of making Bart the flash in the first place if all it was for this. ‘Lets rape one good character for the sake of another lol!‘ This totally makes all the Flash-related stuff that happened during and after Infinite Crisis almost as pointless and as useless as what was done to Wonder Woman.

BUT WAIT!

A little glimpse at JLA#10 shows us this:

Yup. Wallace Rudolph West(and family) is back! And just in time too!

Before Infinite Crisis, we had Wally as Flash and Bart as Impulse, and it was good. The formula worked. Both characters were great and both were loved by the fans. Then they had to fuck with it, and had to come up with some shitty method to try and fix it.

Admittedly, Bart went out like a man saving thousands of lives, and in a different context I would actually be applauding this as a good death issue. But the way they brought back Wally at the exact same time makes the whole thing feel sort of…cheap.

And at the and of it all Alex Ross will be sitting in a big leather chair, with a huge grin on his face and say…

‘…just as planned.’

DAMMIT DC!

Oh and this week’s Countdown is meh as usual. Oh well.

Smooth move DC.