The Flash
Warning : SPOILERS forThe Flash # 50 .
The final chapter of theFlash Warevent of DC’sThe Flashcomic has finally resolve a depicted object of debate between fans of the franchise . Which reading of The Flash is the fastest - Barry Allen , or Wally West ?
First introduce inShowcase # 4back in 1956 , Barry Allen is probably the best bed embodiment of The Flash to modern audience , if only because of his presence in theJustice Leaguemovie and the popular television series , starring Grant Gustin . Barry would go on to give his life history to redeem the world in the 1985 storyCrisis On Infinite Earths , inspiring his protege and nephew , Wally West ( a.k.a . Kid Flash ) , to take up his drapery . Wally would go on to discover The Speed Force - an energy field that indue and protect all of the speedsters in DC Comics ' macrocosm - and develop a level of power his uncle had never possessed .
This changed drastically in the current reality of DC Comics ( a.k.a . The Rebirth Reality ) , where the timeline was rewritten so Barry Allen had discovered The Speed Force early on on in his career and Wally West wastrapped inside The Speed Forceuntil Barry Allen pulled him out of it .
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While it had previously been assumed that Wally was far faster than his wise man , having had more clip to explore The Speed Force and what it can do , Barry ’s nature in the young timeline made that fact less certain . While Wally ’s experiment with The Speed Force allowed him to develop a routine of powers Barry did n’t seem to have ( such as the ability to run out the velocity from objects already in motion ) that still did n’t mean he could outrun Barry .
The recentFlash Warstoryline saw the two Flashes mark against each other , thanks to the machination of the villain Zoom , who remind Wally of the macrocosm of his two children and suggest that they were immobilize in The Speed Force as he had been . This led to Wally attempting to break The Speed Force open up andBarry attempt to stop him .
This was all a part of Zoom ’s larger plan , which hinged on Wally ’s action allow him get at to a number of energy fields beyond The Speed Force , includinga Strength Force and Sage Forcethat offered increased physical and genial prowess . Determined to habituate his newfound power to rewrite his past , Zoom raced into the depths of the prison term - current with Barry and Wally in blistering pursuit . It was here that Barry did what all good teachers do and advance his bookman to become better than him , reminding Wally that while Barry was " always so lost in the scientific discipline of The Speed Force , " Wally knew how to enjoy the pep pill and cut loose in a way Barry could n’t . spur on by Barry ’s words that he was in truth The Fastest Man Alive , Wally goes on to bunk real circles around Zoom and lay aside the Clarence Day .
The triumph is a Pyrrhic one , however , and the aftershocks ofFlash Warwill be felt for some time to occur . Zoom is still at large and The Speed Force itself has been altered in ways that may not be altogether apparent . Doubtlessly future issue ofThe Flashwill continue to explore the change work by theFlash Warand what they could intend in the face ofDC Comics ' ever - change cosmologycould prove truly scandalous .
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The Flash # 50is now available fromDC Comics .
