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Tweak says, "He fell off the roof."

Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-22 09:16:00

Entry tags:

char: flash/barry allen, char: iris west allen, creator: carmine infantino, creator: john broome, publisher: dc comics, title: the flash

How Barry Allen protected his secret identity.

In Flash #110...

And later, in Flash #174... on their one-year wedding anniversary, Barry tells Iris he's the Flash.

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	sherkahn 2009-06-22 08:33 am UTC (link)
	Hold on, I am looking for an appropriate head-desk icon for this. Still lots of love for the old stories, but damn Barry. Did the also forget to remove the batteries from the nuclear holocaust trigger device you left for the authorities to collect? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sir_razorback 2009-06-22 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	Have a Prime Facepalm. =p (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jcbaggee 2009-06-22 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	A Bruce Wayne head desk icon, because if Bruce Wayne knew this happened he would lose all respect for Barry. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	freezer818 2009-06-22 08:48 am UTC (link)
	In that first scan, Iris' expression says "He's so cute when he's being an idiot." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	retro_nouveau 2009-06-22 09:39 am UTC (link)
	Heh - I see "The dork doesn't give me much credit, we're both professional investigators... Should I let him off the hook or watch him squirm for a while?" XD (Reply to this) (Parent)

	harpiesiren 2009-06-22 09:14 am UTC (link)
	Uh huh He would forget his head if it wasn't attached. XD (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2009-06-22 09:29 am UTC (link)
	From the very first day of our marriage? You talk in your sleep? Read between the lines people. Flash sez "Save it for marriage!" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mari_redstar 2009-06-22 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Well, obviously a respectable unmarried woman like Iris can't go around inviting her gentlemen callers up to her room- it's much more proper to just discreetly pick Barry up for a drive through the park and get to know him a little better in the backseat of her parked roadster, and it's not like anyone's going to be sleeping in that situation. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-06-22 09:53 am UTC (link)
	Seems like Barry's comics need to be accompanied by that "wha wha whaaaaaa" sound effect. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rabican 2009-06-22 10:18 am UTC (link)
	Whaaa whaaa whaaa whaaaaaaaa. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-06-22 12:21 pm UTC (link)
	Excellent! Surely that will be as useful as Instant Rimshot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zegim 2009-06-22 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	And the drama button to complete the team. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-06-22 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	Iris: Barry, I don't know how to tell you this, but... I'm expecting. Barry: You're expecting? I ordered my coffee twenty minutes ago! Iris: I won't ask you to raise him. After all, he's not your son. He's... the Flash's! Barry: Oh darn, I must've forgotten to take off my costume. Looks like being the Flash has caught up to me again! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ninjapeps 2009-06-22 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	is there any room for an instant Horatio? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-06-22 10:37 am UTC (link)
	Ha ha. /nelson This is the same guy who kept handing out little science "facts". From now on I'm going to pretend he had no idea what he was talking about (with Silver Age Science being what it is, that's not too unlikely) and everybody just kept humoring him. "Our Barry, he's... special." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-06-22 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, Barry's Flash Facts were generally useful and interesting (not always--this was the Silver Age). He was more an Absent Minded Professor type, to be honest. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ian_karkull 2009-06-22 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	I know, that's why I said I'll pretend. Not that it manners anyway, but imagining Barry as some sort of high-speed moron not only amuses me greatly, it makes the entire tedious Rebirth thing just much, much more bearible. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	purplemaster.livejournal.com 2009-06-22 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, "Flash Facts" was the name of the occasional filler-page in THE FLASH that featured speed-related scientific trivia. Dork that Barry is, he still didn't go around actually calling things "Flash facts." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kamino_neko 2009-06-22 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Barry... He should be glad he forgot to change, given that he showed up at super speed, and Barry Allen doing that would be kind of a giveaway. (Reply to this)

	magus_69 2009-06-22 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	Let me guess: Barry's Too Dumb To Live character trait will be completely ignored now that he's back, right? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bj_l 2009-06-23 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	Oh absolutely, because he can't be the god the writers remember from their childhood if he acts like he did during their childhood. Wait a minute... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	entropic_theory 2009-06-22 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously, how did he not notice he was wearing a full-body skin-tight costume? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-06-22 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	Bart didn't get to be Bart from just his mom. It came from SOMEWHERE. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-06-22 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	IIRC, Mark Waid played around with this a little bit when he brought Iris into Wally's series. Iris said to Linda, "I figured out Barry was the Flash six months before he worked up the nerve to tell me himself." I could be remembering the line incorrectly, or in post-Crisis history, Barry decided to tell Iris before they got married. (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-06-23 12:21 am UTC (link)

Well, THAT was a screwup. I wonder how he got out of that one?

"I, uh, wasn't talking to YOU, Iris, I was talking to, uh... myself! Yes, you see, I'm here to see 'The Iris and the Rose', playing, as you can plainly see, at the El Grande theater across the street from you. Been looking forward to it for weeks. So I was just, y'know - 'yay! I'm on time! I'll see the play!' Didn't see you until after I'd said that; sorry for the confusion. My next line was going to be 'I'll be seeing you, Rose, in about five minutes once I've gotten myself some popcorn!' So, uh, yes, I'd better get going, 'cause I reserved a seat. Oh, and as for Barry Allen, I just saw him - he's about five blocks away, the slowpoke, should be here any minute. Bye! *zips off*"

Seriously, though, you just know that, had the writer bothered to wrap up the story properly, we would've gotten something like that.

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	lady_mondegreen 2009-06-23 01:28 am UTC (link)
	With his freakishly large head in the first scan, you'd think he'd have a brain of equal proportion to prevent such blunders. Also, Iris seems to be jumping to conclusions with Barry's sleep-talking. Normal people can't dream that they're superheroes? (Reply to this)

	kagome654 2009-06-23 09:20 am UTC (link)
	He's too cute. (Reply to this)

	salamangkiero 2009-06-25 02:23 am UTC (link)
	He's a perfect Absent-minded professor, that's what he is... (Reply to this)

	lurkslikefox 2009-06-25 05:55 am UTC (link)
	Wait, what? Leaving aside the fact that she guessed the truth, Barry waited a year AFTER they got married to tell her the secret? Cos that's more than a little dickish. (Reply to this)