Straw in a Hurricane

[angel_negra]

I've been meaning to post this one for a while. There were some arcs back in the early issues of Wally's debut as Flash that were big into explaining, or attempting to explain, a lot of how Wally's powers worked and how he made his suit and other fun stuff like that. Having never read much more than a few panels here and there of Barry's first run, this was especially interesting to me.


A little context first. A few issues previous to this, Wally lost his powers thanks to a DCU-wide event. In this issue, Drs Tina and Jerry McGee and Mason Trollbridge were working to get Wally's powers back by attempting to recreate the mix of chemicals/lightning charge that first gave him his powers. They think they have it and Wally goes to run and we get one of my favourite scenes:







I love the framing of this, how they get Lois typing up her story as the narration. And I love the look at just how destructive powers like this can be. The trail we see in the last scan winds up spanning across the country, with some unexplained gaps, before ending in a miles wide crater in New Mexico.

suggested tags: char: flash/kid flash/wally west, publisher: dc comics

Comments

[From: superfangirl1]

Lois love! <3

:D

[From: angel_negra]

I love it when she pops up in other titles like this. She's always being awesome. <3

[From: panthyr]

The gaps were explained later in the arc as Wally trying to stop and skipping like a stone.

Yup :)

[From: angel_negra]

Oh, I knew why, I just didn't want to spoil the fun of that scene in the post itself, in case someone reading wasn't familiar with this arc.

I love how they figured that out too. Such a nice build up to it with the road trip and showing the pure destruction Wally created.

[From: megami18]

This is great! Thanks for posting it!

:)

[From: angel_negra]

Welcome! :)

Re: :)

[From: jcbaggee]

Wow, Kate looks painfully Spider-Woman-ish in your avatar, I was confused for a second 0_o

Re: :)

[From: angel_negra]

*laughs* The joys of only have 100x100 pixels to work with, eh?

[From: greenygal]

This is such an awesome scene--the way Lois walks you through every step of the disaster, the little details like Tina wondering where that tree came from, and then at the end the view finally opens up and you see the whole thing, holy hell. I really love this storyline.

:D

[From: angel_negra]

God, yes. And I love that they used Lois for it too. An invisible narrator would have worked, but as soon as you see Lois typing it up, you perk up a bit at the hint that this might be bigger than you thought. And then it slides into that reveal at the end and it totally adds to the 'holy crap!' reaction.

And the following issues are just awesome. You know they can't have killed Wally, but at the same time, you're almost on the edge of your seat with it.

[From: geoffsebesta]

GOOD STUFF