The Flash
admonition : SPOILERS forThe Flash # 50 .
Most major funny book events usually end with the destruction of a character . The net chapter ofFlash War -a late event taking place inThe Flash - broke this tendency by accidentally bring a pop speedster back to life . Or , at least , bring them back into the reality ofDC Rebirth .
The events ofFlash Warfocused upon a conflict between the two heroes who call themselves The Flash - Barry Allen and Wally West . The fight was fix into move by the villain Zoom , who revealed that Wally West ’s memories had been altered so that he had forgotten the existence of his children . Spurred by the suggestion that they were snare inside The Speed Force in the same way he had been , Wally run off to bust The Speed Force clear . Barry chase after him , prompting a slipstream that haddisastrous core upon the DC Comics multiverse .
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This all proved to bepart of Hunter Zolomon ’s programme , which was meant to realise the path to his acquiringmore powers than any previous Reverse - Flashbeyond even those offered by The Speed Force by play a trick on Wally into destroying The Force Barrier that kept these powers hidden aside . Barry and Wally were able to discontinue Zoom from conk out back in time and altering the yesteryear , but now the realm of Hypertime - the gateway between potential realities that speedsters antecedently used to travel in time - is closed off from The Speed Force . This is only the latest in a number of recent events that are convert the nature of DC Comics ' cosmology in unexpected way .
Yet the most unexpected modification of all came at the remainder ofThe Flash # 50 , when it was unveil that the end of The Force Barrier also loose Bart Allen - a.k.a . the speedster Impulse .
First enter inThe Flash # 91 in 1994 , new Bart Allen was bear into the domain of 30th Century Earth and was the grandson of Barry Allen . Bart developed a association to The Speed Force briefly after his giving birth , with his accelerated metamorphosis age his body ( but not his mind ) so that he appeared to be 12 when he was sincerely two year old . Efforts to treat this by sting him in a practical reality surroundings able of keep step with him proved ineffectual , prompting him to be post back to the time when Wally West was The Flash , in the hopes that the shock might touch on his aging process to normal . It did , but it also get out Wally West with a adolescent sidekick with a cartoonish view of world and no sense of self - control .
Perhaps it is no coincidence that Impulse has returned to the pages ofThe Flashnow , with the quality poised to be part of the team in the upcoming return of theYoung Justiceanimated serial publication . Or it could be that Bart is merely the first of The Flash Family to fall apart gratuitous of whatever forcefulness has been snare them in metre and blank space ? Either way , the lives of Barry Allen and Wally West are certain to become even more chaotic with Bart Allen around .
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The Flash # 50is now available fromDC Comics .
