Nightwing #146

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

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[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Ehn . . . a lot of (Judeo-Christian derived) religions discourage cremation (and have outright prohibited in the past), and I'm pretty sure it still has some kinda cultural stigma attached to it (although much lessened nowadays).

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Even if the relatives of the villains objected to that, it's not like they have any rights; look at what happened to Captain Boomerang.

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[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Where's this from?

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Identity Crisis. Later in Flash, the Rogues attacked the FBI and reclaimed Boomer's body (eventually).

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Identity Crisis.

Ah. Well, we can completely disregard it then, can't we.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; can't we? Please?

[dorksidefiker.insanejournal.com]

But it's got Kid Boomerbutt! He's the only thing I LIKED that came out of IC. How can it be ignored? *sadface*

[kingrockwell]

There was Manhunter, also.
We'll just pretend the two of them sprung fully formed from DC's forehead, no Identity Crisis involved.

[neotoma.insanejournal.com]

Right, because *that* worked out so well.

Sure, Wally was able to reverse Zoom's attack on Linda and save their babies, but Keystone-Central got trashed, most of the Rogues/new Rogues were out of Iron Heights, two of the reformed Rogues did Face Heel Turns, and all of the supervillains heard what the superheroes had done and bunched up in VILLAINS UNITED as a form of protection against the mindwipe-ry.

Personally, Barry telling Hal that he'll find the Rogues' graveyard had me wincing. The Rogues have *killed* to recover their dead before. Why the hell does Barry think they're not going to go after him if he tries to dig up Avernus?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, Barry strikes me as more of a dick. Wally's been nice to the Rogues before.

[neotoma.insanejournal.com]

Barry was the one who took Heatwave in when he wanted to reform (Pre-Crisis), but the "Secret of Barry Allen" storyline kind of turned him into an enormous hypocrite, yeah.

I *hope* that this set-up for the Flash tie-in to Darkest Night is pays off, anyway.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

What happened with Heatwave?

[neotoma.insanejournal.com]

Way back in the day (pre-Crisis), Heatwave decided to reform. Barry wound up sharing his home with Mick while he tried to get his life together.

When Geoff Johns retconned Heatwave into always have been a pyromaniac arsonist and the reformed Rogues only doing it because of mind-wiping/mind-meddling, that history kind of got thrown in the trash...

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

Post-Crisis, Heatwave worked for Cadmus with Superboy and Guardian as well.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I dunno about that. He mouthed off to all of them casually, and dismissed anything that would make them sympathetic.

'Course, that was after years of being the Flash. Wally's always been a little cocky.