Flash #8 - "Reverse-Flash: Rebirth"

[dreamreaver]

Four pages under the cut.



My thoughts exactly, Bart.



'cause he's killed off all the boyfriends/fiances she had; before that, they were essentially star-crossed lovers.



He manages to reproduce the accident gave Barry his powers; also, from the hints we're given, I'm inclined to think The Return of Barry Allen is still in-continuity.




"It's time I destroyed his."

Short version - he's been rewriting his own origin so that everything is favorable to him - even killing his brother, making it so that he never existed (though because of how mercurial the timestream is, I wouldn't be surprised if he somehow showed up again).

tl;dr WHAT.

Yeah, he's...uh, really screwed up, and that's putting it lightly.

Comments

[icon_uk]

Sigh, so the removal of just about ANYTHING achieved by Wally continues, since I assume this is who we've been seeing rather than Hunter Zolomon of late.

[cass_cain]

Most confusing thing i've ever read with Flash. Oh and btw, I recently made this account and I have EVERY Young Justice issue. How can I post on here?

[lieut_kettch]

I wonder if Booster and Zoom ever met.

[thokstar]

I sort of like the idea that Thawne is so screwed up that even when he tries to make things perfect for himself, he still becomes a villain.

[pyrotwilight]

Aww geeze. Time travel is a damn pain. Though I have to say I find it weird that despite doing things over and over again he still can't change his past. I guess because the past isn't as malleable as he believes like Rip Hunter's said?

[fifthie]

No but really, what the math is going on in this comic?

[freezer]

Is it just me, or has Thawne become the Flash's personal Joker/Sabertooth - i.e. Stuck for a storyline? Bring in Reverse Flash and have him try to destroy The Flash! Again!

[wizardru]

I've never found the Barry Allen Flash that interesting, honestly (and he was the Flash I grew up with...it took Mark Waid's run on Wally to make me care about the Flash at all). I've found the Reverse-Flash even less interesting, generally speaking.

I mean, he's just a null-space as a concept. The move to making him more and more psychopathic doesn't make him more interesting to me, it makes him more cliche. I did kind of like the representation of him as a cold, almost inhuman force of nature (as I think Morrison presented him)...but he's still just kind of dull. He's too defined by other characters instead of standing on his own merits, to me.

[ian_karkull]

Hey Eobard, as long as you're changing history, can you make it so that John's comics don't bore me to tears?

[biznizzonpeyote]

Why is it that when I come here, I always feel like I should be ashamed of liking Geoff Johns' work? And Grant Morrison's? And not being offended as much as others by "Generation Lost"?