The history of the Flash is not as embedded in the public consciousness as say Batman or Superman. For instance, at the time of the first Superman movie back in the late 70s, Clark Kent was working at a TV station rather than a newspaper in the comics and they changed that because everyone knows that Superman is Clark Kent, reporter for a major metro newspaper. Everyone knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne, billionaire playboy.
Maybe one in ten people know that the Flash is anyone else other than a guy who runs really fast. Barry Allen, Wally West, Bart Allen, the lightening bolt that hits a chemical rack of a police scientist as a origin story? Why bother changing the comics, right now the corporate Overlords are trying to figure out to restart the Superman movie franchise, launch the Wonder Woman franchise and the Justice League franchise, which wouldn't have time to deal with individual members origin stories...
What pisses me off most about killing off Superboy was that they killed him off right during a lawsuit with the Siegels over the rights to the characters. I have no illusions about the amount of corporate cynicism at TimeWarner.
I suspect the Earth-Prime Superboy becoming a murderous emo caricature that Will. Not. Go. Away. around the same time stems from a grudge over that lawsuit.
Glamcookie reminded me in Natter -- tomorrow, Saturday, May 3, is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!!
Don't know where the nearest comic book store is to you? I forgive you — use this handy-dandy store locator!!!
YAY! I know one thing I'm doing tomorrow.
We hit stop #1 and got a cool ass sketch from Tim Sale of the slayer from
Righteous
from
Tales of the Slayers.
The Bongo Simpsons comic for Free Comic Book Day was actually pretty damn funny. It had a shoutout to the X-Men and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, plus a manga take on the Simpsons that made me laugh my ass off.
Tiny Titans #1 is super cute.
Archie's Pal Jughead is....typical Jughead.
And the Dan Dare/Stranded 2-in-1 is just confusing, since I don't read them and have no idea who the characters are.
So, yesterday I'm driving down for a quick overnight to DC for dinner and a show with a couple of friends. I'm calling one of my friends (hands-free) to let her know I'm on my way. Suddenly, Darth Vader pops out at the stoplight and holds his hand up.
Me: "Hey! Darth Vader is in the intersection telling me to stop!"
Friend: "... okaaay..."
Me: "No, really! Really good costume, too... but why is... dammit! I forgot about Free Comic Book Day! I'm passing my comic book store right now."
Friend: "..."
Friend: "Maybe you should stop. What's fifteen minutes? Also, who are you?"
I didn't actually stop, because I was running super late. I waved to Darth as I passed, though.
Ha! At my comic shop there were two stormtroopers. It was adorable seeing the kids getting their pic taken and watching traffic practically come to a standstill as everyone looked and waved.
We hit 4 comic shops yesterday. What's with this new trend of only 2-4 books per shop? LAME!
Hey Glamcookie, lame it may be, but the retailers have to pay for all of those goodies. And if I remember correctly, they have buy by the box, which has a seelection of material, but they don't get to chose what is in the box. So if they want a lot of the DC or Marvel FCBs, they have buy multiple boxes and live with having tons of Archie comics...
