{"id":2408,"date":"2009-12-10T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2009-12-09T23:44:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:44:31","slug":"geoff-johns-ethan-van-sciver-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/10\/geoff-johns-ethan-van-sciver-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"I owe Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver an apology&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>** SPOILERS FOR <em>FLASH: REBIRTH<\/em> #5.\u00a0 Consider yourself warned. **<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been ranting and raving about Barry Allen coming back as the Flash for over a year now.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not why I owe them an apology.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still pissed about that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I owe Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver an apology for doubting them in regard to Wally West.\u00a0 I was fairly confident that Wally was going to get shafted as a result of Barry&#8217;s return.\u00a0 We knew a costume change was coming for Wally, that was frightening enough by itself.\u00a0 Then there were rumors that Wally would adopt a new superhero name, like Mercury or something similar.\u00a0 Given that Wally is one of my all time favorite characters, I was understandably unhappy with these possibilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turns out I should have trusted Geoff and Ethan.\u00a0 They did a great job with Wally.\u00a0 Not only did Wally continue to keep the &#8220;Flash&#8221; name, but his redesigned costume provides him with his own distinct look and honors the costumes he&#8217;s worn previously.\u00a0 Below is a shot of Barry and Wally side-by-side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/speedforce.org\/2009\/11\/wally-west-costumes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Wally West as the Flash in his new costume (Speed Force analysis)\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/flash_wallynewcostume.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can see the differences right away.\u00a0 What you may not realize is that all of the new elements of Wally&#8217;s costume come from previous costumes he&#8217;s worn.\u00a0 Below is a quick breakdown of the differences in Wally&#8217;s new costume.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t claim credit for this list, it comes from the brilliant Kelson over at <a title=\"Wally West costume comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/speedforce.org\/2009\/11\/wally-west-costumes\/\">Speed Force.org<\/a>.\u00a0 <a title=\"Speed Force.org Wally West costume comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/speedforce.org\/2009\/11\/wally-west-costumes\/\">Check out his site<\/a> for a thorough comparison between Barry&#8217;s costume, Wally&#8217;s new costume, and all of Wally&#8217;s previous costumes.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The darker color, white eyes, and no wings on the boots from Wally\u2019s first costume revamp (<em>Flash<\/em> vol.2 #50)<\/li>\n<li>The straight-across mask line, partial belt, no wings on the boots, and white eyes from Walter West\u2019s outfit.<\/li>\n<li>Simplified lightning bolt, yellow border around the circle, white eyes, and no wings on the boots from the <em>Justice League<\/em> animated series.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">3-D gold trim, darker color, no wings on the boots, and straight-across mask line similar to the 1990s TV costume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is also a great line in <em>Blackest Night<\/em> #5 reinforcing Wally as his own man, and not just a shadow of Barry:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em>Wally<\/em>: The bad guys have changed since the days I was the Kid to your Flash. Now I&#8217;m the Nightwing to your Batman.<\/li>\n<li><em>Barry<\/em>: You&#8217;re the Flash to my Flash, Wally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a great line!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Long live Wally West&#8230; The Fastest Man Alive!\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a Flash fan, don&#8217;t forget to check out <a title=\"Speed Force.org\" href=\"http:\/\/speedforce.org\/\">Speed Force.org<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8230; Oh yeah, sorry Geoff and Ethan for doubting you about Wally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2408\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/10\/geoff-johns-ethan-van-sciver-apology\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to 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Unlike other comic book deaths - even Superman went up, up and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/vibe_rebirth.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":130,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/11\/coming-in-2013-from-dc-comics-aquaman-rebirth\/","url_meta":{"origin":2408,"position":4},"title":"Coming in 2013 from DC Comics&#8230; &#8220;Aquaman: Rebirth&#8221;","date":"August 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"So my new pet theory is that Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver will give Aquaman their \"Rebirth\" treatment within the next few years.\u00a0 I'm going to put a target date of 2013 on it simply because there was four years between \"Green Lantern: Rebirth\" and \"Flash: Rebirth\".\u00a0 With \"Flash:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/aquaman_rebirth.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":931,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/30\/reviews-flash-rebirth-1-and-zero-hour-mini-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":2408,"position":5},"title":"REVIEWS: Flash Rebirth #1 and Zero Hour mini-series","date":"April 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Bailey (of the Views from the Longbox podcast) and I recently teamed-up to record our thoughts about Flash Rebirth #1 and the 1994 mini-series Zero Hour. 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