After sacrificing himself during the events of the original Crisis, the Silver Age Flash (Barry Allen) returns today in the last panel of "DC Universe #0".


http://www.nydailynews.co...titialskip

Damned comic companies & their death/resurrection "special" events...
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That sucks. Totally lame. It seems that the only lasting effect of Crisis is that it ruined the Legion of Superheroes forever. Other than that, it was pointless.

I'm not at all surprised. C'mon, it's comics.
How many times has Jean Grey come back from the dead?

And with DC, they recently brought Jason Todd (Robin 2) back from the dead, so is Barry Allen so far fetched?

not to pick nits, but barry allen is the silver age flash...jay garrick, the golden age flash.

nobody stays dead at the big 2, get used to it. 25 years is a long time to stay dead in comics. that said, i think this could lead to great things. the whole flash franchise has really suffered these past couple of years. in the hands of geoff johns (who could make surgeon general's warnings exciting) and grant morrison, the flash could be an epic for our time...
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So glad I'm not into the Superhero Comics.

peedub said:

I stand corrected... I'm getting older Peedub & sometimes I get my precious metals mixed-up

As much as I loved Barry back in the old days, I must admit that I am saddened to see him coming back. In my opinion, it cheapens the value of his original sacrifice.

ButterscotchPimp said:

It isn't far fetched. However, there are 2 characters that I didn't want to see brought back:
Barry Allen - His death was an itegral part of the post-Crisis DC universe.
Uncle Ben - His death is the whole foundation of Spiderman's crime fighting career
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ButterscotchPimp said:

Jean Grey is the Phoenix so she's supposed to be resurrected every few years.

The biggest surprise this year was Captain Marvel actually is still dead. No time travel hooey or anything. Marvel fooled me.

peedub said:

Sorry, but I think that's a cop-out. I hate when people give comics a pass with "they're just comic books." Negating deaths and playing fast and loose with everything just diminishes the stories and ultimately drives readers away; there's no way to develop any emotional investment and everything gets cheapened. Just my two cents on it, though; I do agree with you that Johns and Morrison could tell some excellent stories.

Twiki said:

Well said Twiki...

bidi-bidi-bidi

BobGeorge67 said:

Just to clarify, i never said i LIKED it. I'm just not surprised when it happens. I have a LOT more respect when they let a lot of time pass before resurrecting a character like Jason Todd or Barry Allen, rather than when they kill off someone that you KNOW they're really not going to kill off (Superman, Batman, Steve Rogers is ANYONE buying the fact that Captain America's going to stay dead for any length of time?)

Twiki said:

25 years isn't fast, though. and geoff johns and grant morrison are anything but loose (fast and loose, in my opinion, would be the killing of the new gods just so they could be re-imagined/re-interpretted for a new generation[what a travesty]). i'm sure this will be done as well as it can be...

All good. The Flash deserves a comeback.

Giovanni777 said:

Personally, I'd rather see Wally West as the Flash. Barry Allen was a snooze.

Twiki said:

Nope. I grew up on the original.

I liked this Flash


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Twiki said:

Exactly. That's why I stopped collecting Marvel in the early '90s. The back of the dust jacket to the "Death of Captain America" hardback book was simply hilarious: 'Where were you when America lost one of its greatest heroes' (or something like that).

Steve Rogers will be brought back. And it will be in some stupid ass way like they brought back the original Red Skull ie capturing his soul in a jar or something and reinserting it into a new body.

I'm still waiting for all the villains Scourge killed off in the late '80s to suddenly come back.

PurpleKnight said:

I hadn't heard that about Bruce Wayne. Ugh. Didn't they learn their lesson with that whole Azrael mess?

You're right about all the crap they pull to attract new readers and drive away old ones. The only good comics I find these days are indies or lesser-known books, or even miniseries that contain a beginning, middle, and end. It's fun to occasionally pick up a superhero book from the big two--a couple issues read randomly here and there can be okay. But anything more than that just drives home the fact that you can't possibly get connected to the books in any way.

The only death/resurrection I've semi liked was Eben from 30 Days of Night as it was a good story to begin with and come on his a vampire