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longitudinalwaveme · 3 years

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Worst Flash Storylines and Plot Ideas of All Time

As you’ve probably ascertained from the general contents of this blog, the Flash is my favorite comic book series. I love the characters and most of the stories. However, just like any series that’s been around for eighty years (counting the Jay Garrick stuff), the Flash does, unfortunately, have some truly terrible stories and plot ideas.

In terms of terrible plot ideas that didn’t completely ruin the surrounding stories:

1. Barry Allen uses the Mirror Master’s mirrors to manipulate Iris into agreeing to start dating him again (Flash #109). Creepy, Barry. Just creepy. The story is great Silver Age fun otherwise.

2. Iris West: meanest woman alive. Iris was, by and large, incredibly awful to Barry up until maybe about a year before their 1966 marriage. Almost every time she shows up in an early Silver Age issue, you will admire her daring and independence (this is good) and be bewildered as to why on Earth Barry would want to spend time with a woman who is constantly calling him slow, lazy, and ambition-less (this is not good). It doesn’t really affect any one issue too much, but when read in a conglomerate, she starts looking really awful. Although as bad as Early Silver Age Iris seems as a romantic interest, she’s got nothing on Silver Age Superman and Lois Lane, the most dysfunctional couple in the DCU.

3. Wally West’s zero-effort code name and costume (Flash #110). It really could not be more obvious how little effort the writers were putting into creating this character. The duplicate origin is also pretty cheesy, but there are enough differences from Barry’s origin for it not to frustrate me. But the name “Kid Flash” and the fact that his first costume was literally identical to Barry’s just feel incredibly lazy. Barry and Wally do have an adorable dynamic in the issue, though, so it’s by no means all bad.

4. Barry Allen waiting an entire year after his marriage to tell his wife that he’s really the Flash. Frustrating and unnecessary; especially since Joan Garrick had been in on her husband’s secret since the 1940s.

5. Iris Allen is FROM THE FUTURE. I both love and hate this idea. It’s so perfectly comic-booky, but at the same time, it opened the floodgates for the Allen family being a confusing, time-displaced mess.

6. The Trial of Barry Allen. This one’s weird. I like many of the individual issues in this arc, and I actually think the last two issues are really great as an ending for Barry Allen’s original run, but this storyline dragged on for waaaaaay too long. There’s a reason I call it the Arc that Never Ends. Also, the titular trial is actually the least interesting part of the entire storyline. His battles with the Rogues and Kadabra are far more interesting.

7. Wally West’s borderline creepy, chauvinistic attitude towards women under Mike Baron (and, to a much lesser extent, William Messner-Loebs). There’s being a hormonal twenty-something, and then there’s going through girlfriends at the rate other people change their socks. Messner-Loebs mostly avoided this issue by making it clear that Wally was under intense psychological stress that was negatively impacting his behavior, but under Baron and in some of his JLE appearances, he comes across as a real creep around women.

8. Kadabra overkill under Mark Waid: I like Kadabra, but when he’s the main villain in like four distinct arcs, it gets to be a bit much. It’s like modern Eobard. He is legitimately written well, though, so he doesn’t drag down any of the stories too much.

9. Pointlessly Dead Rogues: Killing off the Rogues in Underworld Unleashed for no good reason (the rest of the story is great, especially the Trickster).

10. Pointlessly Dead Rogues 2: Electric Boogaloo: The Golden Glider’s pointless death to build up a character who was himself killed two issues later. (The rest of the story is decent.) Also, the treatment of Lisa in general post-Crisis is frustrating, since she becomes considerably more unhinged than she was before.

11. Any time Waid tried to write McCulloch, with the exception of Flash vol. 2 #105 (and even there, he seemed off). It’s like he forgot Evan wasn’t Sam.

12. Apparently, the Top trying to blow up both Central City and half the world makes him a loser? Also, he suddenly hates Piper for no readily apparent reason. (At least the story had some good Piper and Wally bits.)

13. BARRY ALLEN HAS A SECRET EVIL TWIN! DUN DUN DUN! (The rest of the story, where we get to meet a whole whack of interesting future Flashes, is actually pretty good, but whoo boy, the Malcolm reveal feels like it came straight out of a soap opera.)

14. In order for Captain Cold to ANGST, the Golden Glider’s pointless death remained in place for over ten years. It did give us a really, really good Capt. Cold story, at least...but it’s still fridging.

15. Rainbow Raider’s mean-spirited murder by Blacksmith. Poor Roy.

16. Albert Desmond becomes Hannibal Lecter, only twenty times as rude, for a Gotham Central arc that would’ve been terrific without him as the main villain.

17. Owen Mercer is an idiotic child murderer and gets killed by the Rogues. Why was this necessary? (The rest of Blackest Night: The Flash is pretty good.)

18. Josh Jackam-Mardon’s murder. The murder of small children for shock value is pretty gross. Especially since nothing was ever really done with it.

19. Barry’s PARENTS ARE DEEEEAAAAD! (Okay, it’s really just his mom, but still. This is a very frustrating retcon, since originally his parents were alive and well until after his own death.)

20. Albert Desmond was Barry’s jerk coworker; which never impacted the plot or led to anything. As a result, it’s just another frustrating retcon.

21. Sam Scudder murdered someone before becoming the Mirror Master. Yet another Johns retcon that never went anywhere and only serves to darken the Silver and Bronze Age stories after the fact.

22. Flashpoint (a decent story) wiped out a whole bunch of characters I really liked from existence for several years. Evan McCulloch’s still not back.

23. Giving the Rogues metahuman powers doesn’t suit them, on the whole. They work better without them.

24. Roy’s second pointless, brutal death in (I think) Forever Evil.

25. IT WAS MEEEEE, BARRY! After serving as the main villain for like six arcs in eight years, I’m glad that Eobard finally seems to be getting a rest. The level of bad things he was responsible for was getting ridiculous.

26. Sam/Lisa. WHY? (The only time it even kind of worked was in Forever Evil.)

In terms of entire storylines I didn’t like:

1. The Flash: The Most Terribly Written Man Alive. Poor Bart is aged up with no adequate explanation, loses all the traits that made him a likeable character, fights some awful villains, and then is murdered by the badly OOC Rogues. Meanwhile, Inertia goes from an at least somewhat sympathetic villain to a complete psychopath with little explanation, a murder is retconned into one of Captain Cold’s reformed periods, the Pied Piper and the Trickster completely forget that they’re supposed to be reformed, Abra Kadabra inexplicably teams up with the Rogues despite generally being a solo operative, and all of the Rogues act like total morons, willingly following a teenage speedster for no adequately explained reason. UGH.

2. Countdown to Infinite Crisis: Even though Piper and Trickster were probably the best part of Countdown, that isn’t saying much. Both of them are uncharacteristically stupid (especially James), and James is a grade-A jerk to Piper for no reason. Also, both of them continue to forget that they reformed, and then James gets brutally murdered and Piper almost loses his mind. Also, the other Rogues cameo, and continue to act like idiots. Countdown: it really does ruin everything it touches.

Superboy Prime will kill you! He’ll kill you to DEATH! And after you read Countdown, you’ll wish he had killed you to death.

3. The Identity Crisis Tie-In Retcon: So, you know all that awesome character development the Rogues have had over the years? Well, forget all that, because it was all just Roscoe brainwashing them! Which was something he could definitely do before this story! And why did he do this? Why, because Barry Allen, one of the most upstanding men in the DCU, brainwashed him! Also, apparently, the Top had a huge bodycount that we never heard about back in the Bronze Age, because we need even MORE grimdark retcons for our cheerful Silver/Bronze Age history! I like Geoff Johns’ work, I really do....but BOY HOWDY does he need to lay off on the retcons sometimes.

4. Identity Crisis: With the exception of Owen’s introduction and the establishment of the relationship between him and Digger, this story was pretty awful all around. More specifically, as far as the Flash was concerned, it was responsible for Digger’s second pointless death. It also killed off poor Jack Drake and poor, mistreated Sue Dibney, who deserved MUCH better. And the Justice League, including Barry, are A-OK with brainwashing, apparently. Comics are fun!

These last two stories are pretty recent, and they did have some parts I liked, but on the whole I felt they also belonged on the list.

5. The Trickster finally returns! Hurrah! Except it turns out that he’s way more like the Joker now than he ever was before, and he mind-controls the city in a super-creepy way. A very disappointing return for the character, especially since it was set up really well.

6. Forever Evil: Captain Cold becomes a murderous dictator with a stupid Santa Beard, all of the Rogues get horrible costumes, and Sam completes his mutation into Evan-in-all-but-name. There are some good characters bits in the story (even for Cold), but on the whole, I found the story to just be unlikeable and depressing and thought Cold was pretty out-of-character. Poor Commander Cold....

So, what are your least favorite Flash storylines and plot ideas?

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lobocomicsandtoys · 6 years

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richhybrid · 3 years

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Bath Time Records Albums Of 2020. Part 7. 46. Assemblage 23 — Mourn // Another great collection of songs (and remixes in the expanded version) from Electro Industrial wonder Tom Shear. 45. Dua Lipa — Future Nostalgia // Disco and 80s Electropop influence this modern take on Pop music that has melted my hard metalhead heart. No wonder its sold by the shit ton. 44. Body Count — Carnivore // Ice-T's Metal band continue to be utterly relevant and caustically political in a year when his words have never meant more. 43. Delain — Apocalypse Chill // Surprised me this. Pop tinged Symphonic Metal that just takes the breath away. The riffs are huge and heavy and the vocals are rapturous. 42. The Ocean — Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic // Progressive Post Metal by a band that have reached their creative peak. A stunning example of the genre. 41. Turboslash — Speed // A blast of dayglo neon Synthwave. Perfect for a getaway drive while being pursued by killer robots. 40. The New Division — Hidden Memories // Perfect modern Synthpop. Well crafted and beautifully performed songs. 39. Hayley Williams — Petals For Armour // Hayley Williams comes of age with a brilliant collection of Indie Pop songs. 38. Devin Townsend — Order Of Magnitude: Empath Live Vol 1 // Live document of the Empath Tour 2019. The show was ambitious and so much fun as I can attest to. #BathTimeRecord #AlbumsOfTheYear #AlbumsOf2020 #Assemblage23 #Mourn #DuaLipa #FutureNostalgia #BodyCount #Carnivore #Delain #ApocalypseChill #TheOcean #PhanerozoicIIMesozoic #Turboslash #Speed #TheNewDivision #HiddenMemories #HayleyWilliams #PetalsForArmour #DevinTownsend #OrderOfMagnitudeEmpathLiveVol1 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJQj9URMZHW/?igshid=c7ea68xdtbi3

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spidey16 · 7 years

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Spider-Man reviews Teil 13

"Learning to crawl Part 1" Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 3) 1.1 Autor: Dan Slott Zeichner: Ramon Perez Inhalt: Niedergeschlagen kommt Spider-Man nach den Ereignissen von Amazing Fantasy 15 nach Hause. An nächsten Morgen stellt Peter Fest das die Parkers ohne Ben kein Geld haben. Er geht zu Maxi um sich für mehr shows buchen zu lassen. Maxi meint er sei jetzt ein Held aber Peter sieht das anderes. Wieder an der Schule wird Peter von Direktor ermahnt nicht mehr zu schwäzen. Liz Allen ladet ihn ein mit ihr und den anderen die Spider-Man Show zu sehen was er mit einer fadenscheinigen aussrede absagt. Liz wird darauf hin wütend was wiederrum dazu führt das Flash sich mit Peter Prügeln will. Ein Leherer Mr. Flanigin geht zum Glück dazwischen. Unterdessen besorgt sich ein Junge Clayton Clay Schwarzmarktkarten weil er die Show liefe sehen will. Flash und Co sehen die Show und sind begeistert. JJJ eher nicht und das Chameleon kommt auf Eine Idee. In der Show zeigt Spidey seine netzdrüsen und Clayton wird dadurch inspiert auch was zu Bauen. Ben wird beerdigt und ein Mann - Quentin Beck - macht sich daran die Kulissen für die nächste Show zu manipulieren. In der Schule erfährt Peter das er regelmäßig zum Schulpsychologischen Mr. Flennigan muss. Bei der Show zeigt sich Becks Manipulation an den Kreissägen und Peter kann gerade noch ein Unglück verhindern. JJJ schreibt einen bösen Artikel und Clayton baut sich ein Kostüm und nennt sich Clash Fazit: Das Heft hat zwei Dinge die mich an solchen Retcon-Storys stören. A. Passt das überhaupt nicht mit Amazing Fantasy 16 - 18 zusammen die 19 Jahre zuvor geschrieben wurden. Ist das so schwer nachzuforschen ob es schon Hefte zwischen AF15 und ASM1 gibt und seins anzupassen. B. Obwohl es den retrolook hat hat es Smartphones und Computer. Auch inhaltlich ist es nur ein Filler und der Artstyle ist grausam. Bewertung: Story: 1 Zeichnung: 1 Gesamt: 2 Punkte Bodycount: -

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