I did not ask for Bart Allen to be killed off!
Published by Avi Green on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 7:13 AM.
I wrote earlier that Bart Allen should go back to being Impulse. It appears now that I spoke too soon. Flash #13 vol. 3, which came out now, ends with Bart being slain by the Rogues.
I'm quite offended here. If it were that Murmur monster or even the Girder guy, I could believe that, since they're um, lethal cretins, but if it's Captain Cold and the Trickster, no way, since they're too honorable to do things like that. It's only because of the character destruction that Geoff Johns himself pretty much worked on them that they could possibly stoop to such depths. Even if the Top was just blabbering, that still doesn't excuse Johns' whole idea of "undoing" any mind alterations Roscoe Dillon supposedly worked on them years before.
Yes, Wally and Linda and their children are back (in the tenth JLofA issue) but this is the price paid. I guess this is supposed to be Wally's new motivation for being the Scarlet Speedster? His teen cousin's assassination?
Once more, we're dealt the tired cliche of death in comics, done out of a lack of interest of developing the protagonists and giving them a decent purpose in the books they star in.
Update: here's more on the subject from the Newsarama blog.
I'm quite offended here. If it were that Murmur monster or even the Girder guy, I could believe that, since they're um, lethal cretins, but if it's Captain Cold and the Trickster, no way, since they're too honorable to do things like that. It's only because of the character destruction that Geoff Johns himself pretty much worked on them that they could possibly stoop to such depths. Even if the Top was just blabbering, that still doesn't excuse Johns' whole idea of "undoing" any mind alterations Roscoe Dillon supposedly worked on them years before.Yes, Wally and Linda and their children are back (in the tenth JLofA issue) but this is the price paid. I guess this is supposed to be Wally's new motivation for being the Scarlet Speedster? His teen cousin's assassination?
Once more, we're dealt the tired cliche of death in comics, done out of a lack of interest of developing the protagonists and giving them a decent purpose in the books they star in.
Update: here's more on the subject from the Newsarama blog.
Labels: dc comics, Flash, golden calf of death
