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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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	pyrotwilight 2009-10-26 05:04 am UTC (link)
	See this issue made me wonder what was up with the Blackhawks being basic soldiers. Weren't they the fighter pilot people of the DC WWII and not ground forces? Or maybe they were both and Zinda was only with the pilot groups elsewhere during this time in the war? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-10-26 05:09 am UTC (link)

They were technically pilots, yeah, but in their comic they were really more like special forces guys who flew their own transport. They did a lot of snatch-and-grab and infiltration and getting captured and having to fight their way out and whatnot, and very little in the way of aerial dogfights, at least from what I've read of them.

This is still a bit weird, though, since they seem to be providing generic backup to an overrun ground force, rather than having a specific objective that requires their unique skill.

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	volksjager 2009-10-26 05:36 am UTC (link)
	I think the writer was attempting to be historically acurate,the weather the week before and after he battle of the bulge was too bad for flying. Its was one of the elements that made the German attack successful at first. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-10-26 06:01 am UTC (link)
	But that still begs the question of why they were there in the first place. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stolisomancer 2009-10-26 06:09 am UTC (link)
	"General, we need to deploy more awesome to the front." "Dispatch the Blackhawks." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-10-26 06:22 am UTC (link)
	Now, see, the absence of Zinda definitely torpedoes that as a possibility. I mean, unless she's like, the nuke-level awesome they're holding in reserve, or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stolisomancer 2009-10-26 08:07 am UTC (link)
	No, see, the pre-nuclear nuclear option is bringing in Zinda to give Easy Company a pep talk. You know they never did that because Germany still exists as a concept. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlbarnett 2009-10-26 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	their commander felt they were being stretched to thin, and needed some R and R before a big push and recommended a town that was supposed to be firmly in Allied control. Then the Battle of the Bulge happened. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lieut_kettch 2009-10-26 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	And THAT's the reason for no Zinda: with her uniform, she'd freeze her legs off the moment she stepped out of the cockpit. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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