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trueredorion (trueredorion) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-30 01:03:00

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char: flash/barry allen, char: green lantern/hal jordan, publisher: dc comics, title: flash rebirth

Flash: Rebirth #2 Preview
The Source, DC's blog, has posted the variant cover and a six page preview for The Flash: Rebirth #2 out next week. The cover and four of the pages from the preview under the cut.

The variant cover:

Christina, she of many names (Christina Alexandrova, Col. Ivana Christina Molotova, Lady Savage, Lady Flash, Lady Kobra) is back:

Barry and Hal:

Barry thinks about why he's acting like a prick:

The rest of the preview can be found here.

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magus_69
2009-04-30 04:00 am UTC (link)

And now the citizens of Gorilla City join in the Allen-fellatio. Wonderful.

*facepalm*

(no, that isn't in the posted bit, but it is in the preview)

As for Barry's behaviour: Actually, I don't mind Barry at all. It's everyone else that's driving me mad. Barry is experiencing serious PTSD. To my mind, that's a good thing. Death, in his case, is not just being treated as a revolving door. There are consequences to his return. It's a lot like Buffy in season 6, but hopefully without the melodrama and the hatesex and the darkness and--

Oh wait. Geoff Johns is writing this. Never mind.

Though at least Joss gave us a musical episode...

And with whom shall Barry have the hatesex...?

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	batcookies 2009-04-30 04:52 am UTC (link)
	And now the citizens of Gorilla City join in the Allen-fellatio. Wonderful. WOW. Yeah, the giant painting of Barry, with everyone else branching out of him. Throw in the Zolomonized "MY MOTHER IS DEEEAAAD!" origin and it's like Johns is going out of his way to make me hate this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	magus_69 2009-04-30 06:02 am UTC (link)
	See, I snickered when Johns had Prime deliver the "My parents are dead" line. So fitting on so many levels... not least because I'm fairly certain that Johns just does not get it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	trueredorion 2009-04-30 05:52 am UTC (link)
	Because it's not like Barry was the first Flash let alone hero they met or anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

magus_69
2009-04-30 06:00 am UTC (link)

I don't mind them making a tribute in celebration of his return. He was their friend, and as you said he's the first human they encountered peacefully. It's perfectly fitting. I don't mind the indication that Barry led to Wally and Bart, because it's true and again perfectly fitting. Indicating that Barry led to Iris and Jai is just bizarre, and indicating that Barry led to Jay? And SAVITAR?

No.

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	kagome654 2009-04-30 06:16 am UTC (link)
	You're assuming that's what it means. Those branches could indicate something negative. After all, hasn't Barry's return started negatively impacting and hurting all the other speedsters? He is at the center of a current mystery, it could just as easily refer to that rather than 'Barry and the descent of speedsters' or something, right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	magus_69 2009-04-30 06:22 am UTC (link)
	Given what they're doing to the Savitar picture, yours is probably the correct interpretation. Therefore, I withdraw my complaint. Of course, we're now left to wonder how the gorillas know all this, and whether or not there will be more people added to that picture. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kagome654 2009-04-30 06:29 am UTC (link)
	Excuse me as I ninja delete my other comment since, you know, too slow... Well, gorillas are very smart. Also, I'm holding out for a completely nonsensical and random John Fox cameo. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-30 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	That bugged me. They're scientists! They're don't go for that witch doctor stuff! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-04-30 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	Technically, Barry may have used the speed force to super charge the heavy water that gave Jay superspeed. Pretty sure it was a Mark Waid-era retcon, but I may be misremembering. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

icon_uk
2009-04-30 02:36 pm UTC (link)

Barry may have used the speed force to super charge the heavy water that gave Jay superspeed.

Blah! That's just... poor (Like the 1990's story which revealed the Crimson Avenger, DC's first costumed hero back in the 1930's, was actually secretly avenging the death of Superman at the hands of Doomsday, in a vision of the future the WWI soldier who became the CA had thanks to Rama Kushna, always truck me as the worst sort of hagiography.

Might it be connected to a story detailing the end of Barry's life where we discovered that as hie body disintegrated in Crisis, some sort of energy form was left that kept zipping along through spacetime and ended up becoming the lightningbolt which hit the cabinet of chemicals.

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	batcookies 2009-04-30 04:48 am UTC (link)
	"Before he came back, the Green Lantern Corps no longer existed" Point of order: Hal didn't rebuild the Corps, even though that statement makes it sound like he was responsible for its return. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	magus_69 2009-04-30 04:51 am UTC (link)
	JOHNS! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-30 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	It was more to do with change. Honestly, though, Barry may not have even met Kyle yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	magus_69 2009-04-30 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know. If Barry knows that much, he ought to know the rest of it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sd_mouser 2009-04-30 06:51 am UTC (link)
	"His prison being the one you were trapped in..." So the Speed Force is no longer a Nirvana for runners? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-04-30 09:33 am UTC (link)
	That might just be Hal's POV of the whole thing: Barry wasn't "dead," he was just "trapped." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	warpedhand 2009-04-30 09:06 am UTC (link)
	I'm not exactly a guy who can make good posts, so I'll just ask here: Have we discussed how Didio said that the New Gods were dead and gone? Both as enemies and allies? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-30 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	Is there a reason you're asking that here, since no New Gods seem to be involved. And IIRC they were never really intended to be dead, as, at the end of Final Crisis they were reborn but into another of the Multiverse worlds. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	warpedhand 2009-04-30 12:42 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry, I thought this mentioned Didio's most recent Q&A. That's what I get for posting tired. Never mind, then. He just said something about the New Gods basically being completely gone, and I probably misinterpreted that, too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-30 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	That cover bothers me. Hal looking maniacal..fine. Barry looks like HE'S COMING TO GET ME. Barry ordering Hal around--? Oh YES. GURGLEGGRLRGGMPH! (Reply to this)

	ashez2ashes 2009-04-30 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	Bart? squints No bart. wanders away (Reply to this)

	retro_nouveau 2009-05-01 09:20 am UTC (link)
	So why doesn't this guy just put the other cowl on, he's got the no-nonsense detective thing down -- complete with "Oh, you're gone? I thought we were still talking..." He's wearing his badge and ID on the cover? I wonder if anyone asked about the unannounced, extended leave of absence... (Reply to this)