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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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Looked it up.

nefrekeptah
2009-10-26 06:28 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, ignore the last post; I should have just looked it up in the first place.

Although upon reading his Wikipedia article - inadvertently snapped his neck, stood trial for it, retired immediately afterword - none of it makes me think that the experience would make Allen any more willing to kill. If anything, having his own partner call him a murderer would make him <>i>less</i> likely to.

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bluefall
2009-10-26 07:07 pm UTC (link)

Inadvertent really isn't the best word. More like... he wasn't trying to kill Zoom, but he wasn't precisely trying not to, either. A more realistic take on this brick scene would be about what happened there; since his options were limited, he did something that he knew to be potentially lethal, but without specifically lethal intent.

I do agree that that experience would only increase his reluctance to do that kind of thing again, though.

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