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Dreamreaver (dreamreaver) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-25 10:31:00

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char: flash/barry allen, char: max mercury, char: professor zoom/eobard thawne, title: flash rebirth

Flash: Rebirth #4 preview
From The Source.

I'm still waiting for Johns to acknowledge Bart as a Thawne descendant...so I'm a sucker for the crazy family tree, sue me.

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neotoma
2009-08-25 02:01 am UTC (link)

I'm not sure how 'poisons your family through you' works out? Thawne seems to be attacking everyone who uses the Speed Force -- whether or not they are a Flash, or a Flash-enemy (Savitar could by no means be described as part of the 'family').

I'm still waiting for Johns to acknowledge Bart as a Thawne descendant

That, and it'd be nice if Johns remembers that *Owen Mercer* is a Thawne descendant, since he's the one who *wrote* it.

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	daso 2009-08-26 08:33 am UTC (link)
	it'd be nice if Johns remembers that Owen Mercer* is a Thawne descendant, since he's the one who wrote it.* There's a difference between "remembering it" and "constantly referencing it" - the second one is really poor writing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neotoma 2009-08-26 10:08 am UTC (link)
	I don't want constant referencing. I want it to be used in a place where it makes sense to use it -- if Thawne is going after speedsters, including ones that are enemies of the Flash like Savitar, it seems like using Owen Mercer would make sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

daso
2009-08-26 12:37 pm UTC (link)

All right, I got you. There are a couple things though.
-First of all, Kid Boomerang isn't a speedster. Not like Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick, Wally West, Barry Allen, Bart Allen, Max Mercury or any character that can run fast that has or has not appeared in Flash Rebirth.
-Has, as far as I know, no established connection to the Speed Force. It's not certain that Mercer is tapping it to throw boomerangs - likely considering his heritage, but not a given.
-Lastly, if Prof Thawne ever said "I'm going after all the speedsters" I must have missed that. I can't remember him saying that.

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neotoma
2009-08-27 01:02 am UTC (link)

Actually, Owen *is* a speedster -- in OUTSIDERS: FIVE OF A KIND he outruns the mach-force suction of a catastrophic decompression on the space-station he and Nightwing are on.

Now, whether he's a *competent* speedster is certainly open for debate.

Technically, in the DCU every speedster is connected to the Speed Force, except Zoom/Hunter Zolomon, who is actually manipulating *time* to give himself superspeed.

Thawne didn't say he was going after all speedsters -- he said he was going after Barry's family. But he killed Savitar and Lady Savitar, who were not friends/allies at all; they were *enemies* of Wally -- they didn't even exist when Barry was around. If Geoff Johns is bring in every currently living speedster, it seems a little odd that he excluded Owen Mercer.

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