Showing posts with label Kid Flash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kid Flash. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Flash – New 52 | Comics

With help from the tapping of the mysterious Speed Force, Barry Allen became the fastest man alive known in the alias of The Flash. Since childhood Barry’s mother was trying her heart and soul to keep the family going while he was busy with school and all that.

He lost his mother at a young age with his father being arrested for her murder but claimed to be innocent. This event became his motivation to become a forensic scientist later with help from Darryl Frye, a person with whom his mother was romantically involved once that no one else knew about.

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The Flash – New 52 | Comics

After years of frustration over the thing that he could not figure out his mother’s true killer, his father finally admitted his role in the alleged crime. In one stormy night when a depressed Barry was working in his lab, he was struck by lightning, woke up from coma after a long time with the power of super-speed, he becomes The Flash!

When Batman and Green lantern visits Metropolis to dig deep about an extraterrestrial invasion on Earth (Justice League – Origin), he was called by Hal Jordan when Superman was practically trashing them. Barry eventually formed an alliance with those three along with Aquaman and Wonder Woman to repeal the invasion and forming Justice League to fight Darkseid of Apokolips afterwards.

Apart from his regular duty of saving the world from massive crisis as a League member and an experienced speedster, Barry often spends time taking down other Rogues like Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd, Heat Wave, Pied Piper, Reverse-Flash and Weather Wizard.

For more information on The Flash – New 52 comics series, you can check out these links below.

The Flash – The New 52 (Comics) Wikipedia


The Flash – The New 52 (Comics) DC Wikia


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Faster Than Superman

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The Flash Vol 03 – Gorilla Warfare (Softcover)


The Flash Vol 03 – Gorilla Warfare (Hardcover)


The Flash Vol 04 – Reverse (Softcover)


The Flash Vol 04 – Reverse (Hardcover)


The Flash Vol 05 – History Lessons (Softcover)

The Flash Vol 05 – History Lessons (Hardcover)

The Flash Vol 06 – Out of Time (Softcover)

The Flash Vol 06 – Out of Time (Hardcover)

In the wake of The New 52 timeline of DC Comics following the ‘Flashpoint’ crossover event, the monthly ongoing Flash comic series has also been re-launched by DC in the New 52 era, given a slightly altered origin.

The series initially kick-started with Francis Manapul (Legion of Superheroes, Witchblade) and Brian Buccellato (Forever Evil – Rogues RebellionThe Flash – Reverse) as the creative team for the series and Francis Manapul is also serving for a long time as both writer and artist at the same time.

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Flash and The Justice League

Other than appearing in his own monthly series Flash also made appearance in the other titles like Justice League too. The Flash was also part of H'El on Earth, Superman – Doomed, Earth 2 – World's End, Darkseid War crossover and then he ascended to the universe changing event; DC Rebirth.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Flash – Rogue War | Comics

With two groups of Rogues of the Scarlet Speedster fighting each other, old nightmares return to haunt The Flash once again.

After years of fighting against The Flash, the group of villains calling themselves The Rogues has finally started to break up from within when some of them starts reforming by moving on and chose to go straight from that point. This didn't sit well with the rest like Captain Cold, Mirror Master and Weather Wizard, who stayed on their path.

Digger Harkness, the original Captain Boomerang got double crossed and killed during "Identity Crisis" fiasco earlier, many of his former peers have gathered to pay him respect for the last time. His long estranged son Owen Mercer took up his mantle and broke the coffin to reveal to everyone present that it was empty all along as F.B.I. has took the body.

Original Trickster, James Jesse now works for F.B.I. and now has the corpse of Boomerang to experiment on in an attempt to revive him for taking down his former teammates. After Kid Boomerang is taken in by Captain Cold and the remaining Rogues, he asked the team to help him find his father's corpse and Snart promised to do so.

Axel Walker AKA Trickster causes a city-wide havoc only for The Flash to intervene and take him to Iron Heights Prison but Mirror Master and Kid Boomerang sneaked him out before he could be interrogated by the speedster. Turns out, Tricksty actually went on to locate where they kept Digger's body under the cover of vandalizing the city.

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Reporter Linda Park gets a sudden visit from Zoom, the newest Reverse-Flash to inform her that he still knows about the secret identity of Wally West and he is not done with them yet. Hunter Zolomon then abducts the first Flash, Jay Garrick to power up a cosmic treadmill for his plan to make Wally a better hero by introducing more tragedy in his life.

Captain Cold then leads The Rogues break into F.B.I. headquarters looking for the body of the deceased Digger Harkness, so that his son Owen can properly bury him. Profiler Ashley Zolomon is kidnapped by Pied Piper on behalf of his superiors at F.B.I. to communicate with Digger when they "wake" him up but she refuses to cooperate with them.

As Snart and his gang was about to leave they came across James Jesse in his Trickster costume along with his reformed Rogues; Heat Wave, Magenta and Pied Piper standing on their way. A heated battle breaks in between the current and former Rogues in the middle of Central City that even caught the attention of the scarlet speedster as well.

As they try to kill each other, Wally West desperately tries to put a stop to this madness and The Top shows up to make matters worse. Now that his memories are restored, he decides to give back memories to the reformed Rogues to turn them back as they were. He also brought in Double Down, Girder, Murmur and Tarpit into the brawl against Flash.

Now that he is back at his villainous self just like everyone else, Jesse offers to Owen and Weather Wizard to take them to Digger's body to get back in. Finding Ashley with the corpse made them furious and goes for her life but Zoom arrives out of nowhere. He blasted the villains off before quickly moving his wife to safety.

The fastest man alive was having a hard time facing his enemies and things get rougher when Doctor Alchemy and Gorilla Grodd decide to join the party but Kid Flash reached out just in time to push Wally out of harm's way. Zoom shows up again followed by his arch-nemesis Eobard Thawne AKA Professor Zoom with a chained up Jay Garrick.

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The Flash – Rogue War

Following the events of "The Secret of Barry Allen", DC Comics assigned the duo of writer Geoff Johns (Flash – Rebirth, Green Lantern – Rebirth) and artist Howard Porter (JLA – New World Order, JLA – Tower of Babel) for another storyline of Flash that collects issues #1/2, 212 and 218-225 from the second monthly ongoing titular comic-book series.

The storyline assembled a large number of Flash-villains caving into a conflict that started over their differences in perspective and ended up in all uniting against the fastest man alive, thanks to The Top who recently got his mind back. However, he was quickly sidelined from center stage and other villains' attempts to advance with their own agenda.

Battle of Rogues

In between the "Rogue War" arc of 2005, there is a Wonder Woman crossover in "Land of the Dead" that also features appearance of Wally West. This one actually served to bring back his arch-enemy Zoom into action again with help from Cheetah. They even formed a romantic relationship for a brief time when they teamed up against Diana and Wally.

Jay Garrick, Kid Flash and Professor Zoom rallies up to wrap the entire pointless clash between Rogues to each pursue their own plan. A past incident is revisited with familiar faces and the saga of Scarlet Speedster will continue in "Lightning In A Bottle" up next.
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Friday, December 21, 2007

The Flash – The Secret of Barry Allen | Comics

The Flash reunites with Kid Flash and Jay Garrick before confronting the Justice League and learning a secret of Barry Allen.

Young superhero Wally West assumed the mantle of The Flash after his mentor Barry Allen to become Keystone City's greatest hero and a member of the Justice League. Wally is keeping up with the legacy of the fastest man alive by running alongside people and being more approachable to public than Batman, Superman or even Wonder Woman.

Earlier, his secret identity became public and his wife Linda Park was attacked by his former friend and the newest Reverse-Flash Hunter Zolomon AKA Zoom. Current moniker of The Spectre, Hal Jordan used his power to make everyone forget who he was, including himself but he figured his true calling in time and so did his wife after a while.

Running across the city, he sees a huge line of traffic and learns that they city is throwing a city to celebrate official "Flash Day" in Keystone. He goes back home to find a letter left by Linda for him saying she will be back after she clears her head. Wally calls for the Spectre only for Hal Jordan to show up and getting berated for trying to help him.

Meanwhile, Captain Cold, Mirror Master and Weather Wizard ask Doctor Alchemy for his support. Trickster came by to invite his peers to join him on crushing the parade with few of the fellow Rogues. Though not interested in their petty crime spree, he agrees to lend a hand when needed because they took care of his embarrassing imposter Mr. Element.

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The Flash – The Secret of Barry Allen | Comics

Hearing a gunshot, he quickly suits up and heads out to catch the bullet fired by Plunder before someone gets hit by it. Flash tracks him down on a nearby rooftop before knocking him down and then shifts focus on Trickster causing explosions over the crowd. Down on the street, he is incapacitated by Tar Pit for Abra Kadabra to eventually reveal himself.

Jay Garrick and Kid Flash arrive as the Golden Giants unleashed by the villain starts tearing apart Keystone and helped save the day. They all are invited to the newly rebuilt Flash Museum and Wally is teleported to Watchtower, where members of Justice League members are looking for an explanation on why they can't remember who he was all along.

A race around the horizon with Man of Steel has finally convinced Flash to open up about what really happened. Rest of the JLA members, Teen Titans and every hero he worked with gets to know about his identity as well. He caught up with Nightwing and these two even busted Double Down, Girder and Penguin as they were cooking some new scheme.

Later, Dick asks for a tour of Flash Museum and when they were going through statues of The Rogues, one of them revealed to be Gorilla Grodd. The primate attacks the unsuspecting heroes with his mind powers but the creature has been dealt with but Wally then came out as a suspect for attempted murder of Ashley Zolomon next.

Sue Dibney was killed, which put the entire superhero community on a full alert and some suspect the involvement of Doctor Light. They go after him only to be greeted by Deathstroke and a well kept secret of a past incident came out to everyone. Knowing his uncle Barry Allen knew about the pact, Wally gets in quarrel with rest of the League.

Green Arrow talks to him about the event and hand him over a letter left behind by Barry, which turns out to be a confession letter detailing a mess regarding The Top. With help from Zatanna, he gave Roscoe his mind back and it literally flipped on them.

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Past Personal Crisis

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The Flash – The Secret of Barry Allen

A ten-part storyline, "The Secret of Barry Allen" collects issues #207-217 except #212 from the second monthly ongoing volume of The Flash comic-book series of DC Comics, plotted by renowned writer Geoff Johns (Flash – Rebirth, Green Lantern – Rebirth) and drawn entirely by artist Howard Porter (JLA – New World Order, JLA – Tower of Babel).

Serving a self sufficient story on its own, "The Secret of Barry Allen" also served as a tie-in for "Identity Crisis" crossover event regarding the death of Sue Dibney and a worst secret kept by JLA members. The secret left behind for scarlet speedster by Barry Allen is one blast from past that is surely give Wally West a tough time in his upcoming adventures.

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Legacy of Barry Allen

Aside from regular Justice League roster of Aquaman, Batman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Superman and Wonder Woman, characters like The Atom, Black Canary, Elongated Man, Firestorm, Green Arrow, Hawkman and Zatanna made cameo appearance. Heroes from Justice Society of America and Teen Titans did the same as well.

Following the event of "Blitz" and "Ignition", the fastest man alive has gotten some storyline build up for the current premise. This arc is succeeded by "Rogue War", which started running almost simultaneously when the current arc was already halfway through and then in a crossover with Wonder Woman in "Land of the Dead".
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Thursday, October 23, 2003

Teen Titans – Year One | Comics

When heroes of the Justice League of America start behaving like villains, young trainees like Aqualad, Kid Flash, Robin and Wonder Girl should team up.

Sitting on the Batcomputer, Robin was trying to see if any of his fellow teen superheroes are up online only for Batman to show up out of nowhere. Although Dick Grayson was trying to contact his friends to see if anyone knows anything about a master cat burglar but The Dark Knight believes that he is wasting time chatting and takes him to patrol.

Though Kid Flash actually responded back to him, Dick never saw it on his way out and Wally got stressed out quickly due to his perception of time being too faster than anyone else. He even took a trip to Paris to get a snack and then started to look for others on the web. Donna Troy comes to the big city looking for Wonder Woman with no luck.

Back in Gotham City, Robin notices Batman to be extra cranky than his usual and it only worsens when he catches the Bat beating someone over a necklace. When Dick tries to reason him over the matter, he got swatted back on the face and left perplexed.

In Atlantis, young Aqualad sees Aquaman employing a group of sea creatures in wrongfully assaulting a submarine and tells him to stop but gets strongly rebuffed by Orin instead. Similarly, Kid Flash faces the same problem with his own mentor, Barry Allen AKA The Flash acting weirdly out of his nature as they both race to Easter Island.

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Teen Titans – Year One | Comics

Knowing his underdeveloped lungs would not let him survive out of water; Aqualad still reaches to the surface and is taken to a cave by the Boy Wonder. After seeing ten messages from Speedy, they all assumed that Green Arrow has gone rogue too. Heading over to help their friend, they all are eventually saved by the timely arrival of Wonder Girl.

After taking her to their secret cave, the youngsters learn that she too has been having a hard time to reason with Diana. Earlier, Donna met her outside of United Nations Building and behaved pretty rudely. Robin has finally come to the conclusion that something really weird is going on with their idols and they need to intervene at once.

Suggesting that they should work together, he sends Speedy and Wonder Girl together after The Flash and taking both the teenage Atlantean and speedster along with him. At first, these three goes after Wonder Woman with a plan to capture her before moving to Aquaman. Donna and Roy successfully take down Barry and Oliver as well.

The heroes take all four possessed members of Justice League of America to Secret Sanctuary at Happy Harbor. With only Batman left to bring in, Dick announces he would do it even though he strictly advised everyone against the idea of going against their own idols.

The Dark Knight strikes onto them when they least expect him to be there and take them all down with ease. During his confrontation with Dick, his little sidekick managed to reach out to him and helped him break free of the control by a vile creature. Not only the heroes were freed, they appreciated the bravery of their juvenile partners.

Of course, Robin had to get back to Gotham City and rest of the team became very popular to media as Teen Titans, they would still face troubles from second-string villains with a grudge over their fame or someone trying to piss off their mentors.

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Teen Titans – Year One

As per tradition, "Year One" is a retelling of Teen Titans origin story by writer Amy Wolfram and artist Karl Kerschl (Gotham Academy – Welcome to Gotham Academy, Gotham Academy Second Semester – The Ballad of Olive Silverlock). This six-issue limited series came out in 2008 from DC Comics chronicling early days of these superhero sidekicks.

Though her depiction of Batman seemed a little off at times but other than that, Wolfram pulled off a pretty decent plot in overall. It would have been nice to see more of her work on these young heroes or maybe some other character from DC Universe. Kerschl was also spontaneous with his animated styled art throughout the miniseries.

Initially, the heroes considered calling Superman for help but that idea didn't work out at all. At one point, Aqualad referenced back to their prior team-up effort against Mister Twister from first ongoing series of Brave and the Bold, issue #54 that came out back in 1964.

Lesser known villains like The Ant, Antithesis and Ding Dong Daddy showed up to give these rebel band of youngsters some trouble but their rendition came out a lot less threatening to be deem as an actual threat, except for Antithesis who actually managed to take most of JLA members under his control and troubled the Titans as well.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Teen Titans | Comics

Apart from doing their vigilantism work as sidekicks, Aqualad, Kid Flash and Robin were also active as a solo hero. When Mister Twister started trouble at Hatton Corners, these young heroes stopped him by working as a team and they decided to continue their union by calling themselves Teen Titans with approval from their mentors Aquaman, Batman and The Flash.

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Teen Titans | Comics

Soon, they recruited Donna Troy as original Wonder Girl and Speedy to the team and start operating from a former Wayne Enterprises warehouse. When the mysterious tele-empathetic teen superhero Raven approaches Cyborg, Beast Boy, Kid Flash, Robin, Starfire and Wonder Girl for help fighting the menace of her demonic father Trigon, they re-builded the team as New Teen Titans.

In the aftermath of “Zero Hour”, Nightwing passed the leadership mantle to Arsenal, following a bunch of new recruits like Changeling, Damage, Impulse, Kyle Rayner, Minion, Mirage, Supergirl and Terra. Then Donna Troy dies on “Graduation Day” and Nightwing formed The Outsiders. This apparently left Beast Boy, Cyborg and Starfire in their San Francisco based Titans Tower.

Bart Allen as Impulse, Tim Drake as the new Robin, Superboy and a new Wonder Girl re-formed the team again to deal with Deathstroke and the Church of Blood, led by a new Brother Blood. The team was also active during Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis and Countdown to Final Crisis. The older members of the team later formed "Titans" and Cyborg reforms Titans East.

For more information on Teen Titans comics series, you can check out these links below.

Teen Titans (Comics) Wikipedia


Teen Titans (Comics) DC Wikia



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Early Days of the Titans

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The Silver Age Teen Titans Archives Vol 01

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol 01

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol 02

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol 03

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol 04

The New Teen Titans – Terra Incognito

The New Teen Titans – The Judas Contract

The New Teen Titans – The Terror of Trigon

Crisis on Infinite Earths (Softcover)

Crisis on Infinite Earths (Hardcover)

Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths

History of the DC Universe (Softcover)

History of the DC Universe (Hardcover)

New Teen Titans – Games (Softcover)

New Teen Titans – Games (Hardcover)

JLA/Titans – The Technis Imperative

Titans/Young Justice – Graduation Day

New Teen Titans – Who Is Donna Troy?

Teen Titans Vol 01 – A Kid’s Game

Teen Titans Vol 02 – Family Lost

Teen Titans Vol 03 – Beast Boys and Girls

Teen Titans Vol 04 – The Future is Now

Teen Titans/Outsiders – The Insiders

Infinite Crisis (Softcover)

Infinite Crisis (Hardcover)

Teen Titans Vol 05 – Life and Death

Teen Titans Vol 06 – Titans Around The World

Teen Titans Vol 07 – Titans East

Teen Titans – Titans of Tomorrow

Teen Titans – Spotlight – Wonder Girl

Teen Titans – On the Clock

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Consisting of the popular teenage superheroes, the concept of the fictional superhero team Teen Titans was created by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani. It first appeared in the 60th issue of The Brave and the Bold monthly ongoing series from DC Comics in 1965.

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Titans on Adventure

During the long running publication period, writer Dan Jurgens (Superman/Doomsday – Hunter/Prey, The Death of Superman), Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, Brightest Day) and Scott Lobdell (The Darkness, WildC.A.T.s) has helped create the base of a long running chronological storytelling along with artists Gil Kane (Conan the Barbarian, John Carter; Warlord of Mars), Art Saaf, Neal Adams, Mike McKone, Eddy Barrows and Ed Benes (Artemis – Requiem, Blackest Night – Titans).

Following the timeline reboot of The New 52 after "Flashpoint" crossover event, the team of Teen Titans have begin their adventure anew on Prime Earth. Apart from shining in the comic book pages, the team also appeared in its own TV show aired on Cartoon Network simply titled Teen Titans on The WB from 2003 to 2006.
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