Mark Waid may have set the path for Flash ruin?
In the replies to this preview for All-Flash #1, I made a discovery via one of the replies that tells that Mark Waid may have led to the Rogues' tarnishing:
Waid may not have tarnished the Rogues, but he certainly may have set the path to its happening.
Is Rogue Fandom going to beg the point again? Come to think of it, is Impulse fandom going to do something similar?
Back during Waid's run, he killed the Rogues off once, restored them when Rogue Fandom begged the point, then inactivated them all with the Replicant storyline. In interviews he was always vocal about not feeling the Rogue's Gallery was a worthwhile enemy for Wally.Waid's use of the Rogues Gallery during his run was certainly minimal, and this could explain why. But while it's not like William Messner-Loebs used them much either, he didn't disrespect them, and his stories like the one in issue #18, where the Rogues had a reunion party and invited Wally and a ladyfriend at the time to join, was very engaging. The Porcupine story, which had Capt. Cold and Golden Glider working as bounty hunters, was well done too. Here's an example of an early form of writer's disdain for what made a book like this entertaining when it first began.
Waid may not have tarnished the Rogues, but he certainly may have set the path to its happening.
Is Rogue Fandom going to beg the point again? Come to think of it, is Impulse fandom going to do something similar?
