Breaking News: Waid Returns to Flash
Mark Waid is returning to one of the first books which launched him into a comic career, and with him, a very familiar face is 
returning to book as well.
But the return isn’t without a major casualty to the DCU . . .
LAST CHANCE TO AVOID SPOILERS
During the latest issue of the JLA/JSA crossover “The Lightning Saga”, Wally West - MIA since Infinite Crisis - was pulled back from the Speed Force during on the part of an effort by several Legionaires to save another missing member.
However, in the same week, Bart Allen - the current Flash - was stripped of his powers and then brutally murdered by Rogues Aba Cadabra, Mirror Master, Heat Wave, Inertia, Captain Cold and Pied Piper.
It is surpising that Bart was killed now in the game - though Flash is always imperiled every time DCU does something big, a throw-back to the death of previous speedsters Barry Allen and Johnny Quick. Still, despite a rough start, the Flash books seemed to have been doing better - before this happened. However, after such a rocky start - a really rocky start - DC could have been planning this as a contingency.
The title will now restart as All Flash #1, with Wally - as well as his family - returning to DCU. In an interview with Wizard, Waid said, “All Flash is specifically about Bart and Wally and their relationship and the passing of the torch, and how tragic it is to have to pass the baton and then to have to take the baton back.”
I like Mark Waid a lot, and I’m really glad to see the character back in his hands - but I just wish it was under better circumstances.
December 15th, 2007 at 6:27 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce