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Post by C_Miller on Aug 3, 2012 18:52:29 GMT -5
Mirror Master is always around. He will pay off later.
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Post by liquidsword34 on Aug 3, 2012 21:46:10 GMT -5
Cool, I love me some Mirror Master. Although I'm pretty sure the term "boyo" is Irish for what it's worth/
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Post by Ultimate Silentking on Aug 4, 2012 14:59:56 GMT -5
I have finally finished reading all of your stories. I have to say that overall, it is good. But Vol. 1 was far from perfect. Mostly because of the time skip starting after issue #4. But it picked up a little end. As a lot of people already said, Vol. 2 is a huge improvement. Some of my complaints about this were already addressed by Watcher and mrp. Btw, when is the next issue gonna come out? Wally West has always been my favorite Flash and I want to read more about your version of him.
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Post by C_Miller on Aug 5, 2012 10:46:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I kind of was in a rock and a hard place with Volume 1. Wally West is also my favorite Flash, but unlike characters like Barry who for most of his career was just a name and and a job title with a simple personality, Wally depends on his history.
You can't just throw him in to the role of Flash without his history or you lose the fundamental nature of the character and I didn't want to spend a year or so on Barry because Wally was going to be the main Flash. Also a lot of the "mythology" I set up during volume 1 plays an important role through volume 2. So in the end I felt that this was the best way to do it, even though it didn't work out as well as I would like.
Thanks for reading and I hope you continue to enjoy Wally's adventures.
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Post by The Wonderful Wachter on Aug 5, 2012 11:39:01 GMT -5
JLU threw Wally at you and he was still epic.
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Post by C_Miller on Aug 5, 2012 12:25:12 GMT -5
I disagree. There was nothing about that him the screamed Wally to me, and as a massive Wally fan, that more than anything made me realize that the greatness of Wally comes from his fifty year history.
A Wally without the death of Barry just doesn't appeal to me.
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Post by buck on Aug 5, 2012 12:31:23 GMT -5
Barry is a part of Wally that can't be completely skipped over when you do a Wally West story he is nothing without Barry's example.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2012 12:42:34 GMT -5
See I liked Wally as Kid Flash, especially in the Wolfman/Perez Titans when he appeared. When he assumed the mantle of Flash, I liked him less in the early issues-those by Mike Baron, where Wally was petulant and selfish for the most part. The Messner-Loebs issues were a step up for Wally as a character, but it wasn't really until Mark Waid took over that I think Wally came into his own as a character and as a Flash. The key was Waid played him as someone who earned the mantle of Flash and had become a hero in his own right. It wasn't necessarily the legacy, it was that he had moved beyond the shadow of Barry and become THE Flash not Barry's successor. Adding a supporting cast of speedsters and the Speed Force only made Wally seem more unique under Waid's deft hands rather than less.
So I think you CAN do a Wally as Flash story effectively without Barry, but it will be a different character than the DC character. But the Wally in DC works because he was the sidekick who learned to be a hero on his own, not because of Barry per se. I think the key component of that Wally was the years spent in the Titans with characters like Dick and Roy learning to become his own man and learning from others who shared a similar struggle to him. That to me, is the more important component to Wally as an epic character than the presence of Barry in his life.
-M
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Post by C_Miller on Aug 5, 2012 13:18:40 GMT -5
That's an interesting perspective. You probably see things differently since you were a reader during that era. I kind of worked backwards, reading Geoff Johns then Waid, the New Teen Titans, then Baron/Loebs. So I kind of have a jumbled idea of the whole thing. But I definitely agree with you on certain parts.
But like you said the most important part of Wally's development is when he learned to become his own man on the New Teen Titans. You can't divorce that development from Barry because he needed to step out of Barry's shadow. I will be dealing with all of that as well too.
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