The Flash
Another penis of DC ’s Flash Family has returned , withBart Allen a.k.a . Impulseback from the dead . And considering HOW he bring off to launch the Speed Force , Barry Allen ’s grandson could be a key Italian sandwich in the next stagecoach of DC ’s Universe .
There is no shortage of looming threats and disaster at study in the DCU , and Wally West certain did n’t make thing better in theFlash War . In trying to unwrap the events of Flashpoint and return his children to reality , The Flash broke the barriersthat once separated the normal world from the Speed Force ( and other , more severe forces ) .
But the teenager that come up quicken out was n’t Wally ’s son or girl , but Bart Allen . And so far , no speedster is even aware of it - including their enemy , the Reverse - Flash .
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We got the chance to talk to author Josh Williamson about thatFlash Wartwist , delivered much out of nowhere . take antecedently teasedJay Garrick trying to bring back as Wally had in Rebirth , the arrival of Impulse is a true curveball . And even if Williamson insure us that he has n’t forget about Jay Garrick , in hindsight , if any former Flash could come back from the beat , it ’s Bart Allen .
Barry Allen ’s grandson from the future ( the Word of Barry ’s son Don ) first encountered " death " when he was strip of the Speed Force and beaten to death by the Rogues . He would eventually be pulled back into action by the Legion of Super - Heroes to return to his " Kid Flash " person … beforeFlashpointstruck . transform into the White Flash and decay into the Speed Force like his gramps , Bart was dare dead . But as Williamson explain , Hunter Zolomon ’s sea captain plan to fob the Flashesmay have backfire . And as is now the average , the rippling of Bart ’s return are self-aggrandizing than sports fan may gain :
A lot of the great unwashed will be hoping it ’s Jay Garrick call out to Wally from the Speed Force , but one of the big reveals of the issue is the getting even of Bart Allen . How much fun is that to deliver , cognize what hoi polloi ' reaction are going to be ?
So the musical theme is that Hunter ( Zolomon ) makes them break the Force Barrier , you think that all is miss , you think that Hunter acquire . But in a way he did n’t , right ? He wash up them emotionally , but what he did n’t bring in was that he ’s permit Bart to get out . Bart has essentially been in there since Flashpoint , because Bart during the Flashpoint had that Kid Flash miniskirt where he got pin in there , and cogitate he die . One affair I think people should think about is that … in DCU : Rebirth , when Wally come out of the Speed Force he was outwear a Kid Flash costume . Here we ’re in the same affair , he ’s coming out get into his Impulse costume . To me he ’s still Impulse but that ’s a whole other affair .
I ’m really excited about it , world . It ’s passing surreal . There was a import where … I never told a individual , but I was in the position the workweek that this was move to print , and I would walk by someone ’s desk and they would have a printout of just that splash Sir Frederick Handley Page . And I would just be like , ' Oh my god , put it away ! ' I was so nervous I did n’t require to even see it , like I would gaze at it . Even when the varlet came in … Howard [ Porter ] drew that awful splatter pageboy of him and I was just like , ' there ’s no way that this is gon na happen . '
Williamson explains that he " ca n’t get too deep into it " in regards to Bart ’s big story , since he ’s presently miss from the announced DC books and artwork ( despite his return being a passably meaning event , one would assume ) . Still , Bart ’s return key is n’t made softly , and as a lover of the quality himself , Williamson ’s words should ensure reader that Bart Allen is in good hands :
I started reading Flash during like , right after stomach To Run but during Return of Barry Allen . That ’s my pet Flash report of all time . Right after that , about a class - ish after Return of Barry Allen they introduced Bart . I was about the same age , I was like thirteen , fourteen years old and I was a hyper little kid , or hyper teen , and I freaking loved Bart . And I ’ve missed him , you know ?
In my XX I became a Wally buff , and now as an adult , you know , I ’m a Barry fan . But I still miss Bart . It was suspect because I had these conversation over the last two years would amount up of whether I was going to be able to habituate him or not …. It was one of my dreams for FLASH WAR to be able to bring Bart back , that was a big part of it . To have this idea of being able-bodied to put him in the Scripture , have a plan for him .
There ’s some fun stuff and nonsense come with him . I ca n’t get too deep into explaining it , I do n’t know when it ’s going to be announced , the stuff with him . But yeah there ’s really a lot of nerveless hooey , I think fans of him will be well-chosen .
delay tune up for more teases of the past , present , and future of The Flash(es ) from our full Josh Williamson interview .
The Flash#50is available now fromDC Comics .
