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Tweak says, "Jay-net, are you deezent?"

manofbats (manofbats) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-25 23:14:00

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char: flash/barry allen, char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr, creator: amanda conner, creator: j. michael straczynski, publisher: dc comics, title: the brave and the bold

Kryptopolitans and Barry picks up a gun for the war effort.

These are from The Brave and the Bold #28 in which Barry volunteers for an experiment and accidentally travels back in time to the Battle of the Bulge then joins the Blackhawks in their fight against the Germans.

Barry's leg is broken when he awakes after blacking out. Some Nazis spot him and fends them off by pelting bricks at them.

Barry is reluctant to help the Blackhawks kill even though it's WWII and he would be fighting Nazis and he doesn't seem to have a problem with only possibly killing them with bricks to the head at super speed. Since Barry vowed to never kill while wearing his Flash "uniform" he takes it off and puts on an American soldier's uniform to help the Blackhawks just until his leg heals.

The issue ends with Barry putting on the Flash suit, his leg healed, and returning to the present via the rift his experiment created, but not before Blackhawk says, "Go with God, son."

And now for something completely different.

That was posted on Jimmy Palmiotti's blog. It was drawn for fun at a con by Amanda.

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	xammax 2009-10-26 03:35 am UTC (link)
	So... she's a woo girl. (Reply to this)

	ninjapeps 2009-10-26 03:58 am UTC (link)
	he doesn't seem to have a problem with only possibly killing them with bricks to the head at super speed there really are times when a superhero's "no killing" or "guns are bad" rule gets ridiculous. I don't see how bricks flying at super speed is less likely to kill someone as a gun, especially when there's so many of them. hell, none of them are even bleeding. (Reply to this) (Thread)

ex_darkblade992
2009-10-26 04:13 am UTC (link)

Even if we ignore the physics and the proper biological response to being hit in the head with a super sonic brick by way of plugging our ears and repeating "Speedforce" there is the matter of him being in WWII Europe where it is expected by society that one kills the enemy when confronted.

The superhero logic of not killing to avoid becoming judge, jury and executionor street facists doesn't really apply during wartime.

	lieut_kettch 2009-10-26 04:17 am UTC (link)
	So does he run into young Jay Garrick while he's there? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-10-26 04:31 am UTC (link)
	Unfortunately no,I would of love seeing that though. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-10-26 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Nope though they do mention Jay when Barry says he's the Flash and one of the Hawks say he can't be. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jarodrussell 2009-10-26 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that pretty confirms what I suspected the Power Girl team thinks of as Power Girl related humor: abject, consequence free humiliation. (Reply to this) (Thread)