Dear Wally...(Flash spoilers)

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Okay, so this month's issue of the Flash ends with a cliffhanger, as Wally West is about to read a letter left to him by his deceased predecessor, Barry Allen, which will reveal a more shocking secret than even the Identity Crisis lobotomy scandal!
Here's where speculate, with as much fun as you want, as to the contents of the letter.

Dear Wally,

I am sooooo gay.

Barry.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Wally,

Sorry about that TV show in the 90s.

Yours,
Uncle Barry

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched that show.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. Did you like it?

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched the shit out of that! Mark Hamill was great as the Trickster. All things considered, it wasn't bad.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Wally,

BEHIND YOU!

Love, Barry.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how Mark Hamill has enjoyed a second life in his career playing comic book villains (he did the voice for the Joker on the 90s Batman cartoon).

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that from, Dan? I know I know it, but I can't place it. I hate when I know that I know things but don't. actually. know. them.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I did like it! But I was probably too young to know any better. It's bound to come out on dvd soon so we can know for sure.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sci Fi Channel still occasionally runs it, I think, with about the same regularity as Manimal, Misfits of Science, and the other short-lived TV shows (i.e. once a year or so?)

I remember being annoyed that John Wesley Shipp wasn't blond, and then realizing that since so few people in real life have the straw-blond hair of comic books, that would have to be okay: otherwise half the superheroes would be played by Aaron Carter (except I didn't know who he was yet; I'm not sure he even was yet) (and the chicks would all be played by Lindsay Lohan, but I didn't know who she was either).

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Wally,

Don't look in the fridge.

Love, Major Force ... I mean, Love, Barry

Damn it. I'm throwing this one out and starting again.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that from, Dan? I know I know it, but I can't place it.

It's from practically every panto play ever produced (and a couple of Doctor Who novels and probably a bunch of bad horror movies).

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Wally,

Don't hate me, but I'll be coming back in 2008. See you then!

Love, Barry.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Wally,

I never really thought about until just now, but my costume is not so flattering. If you ever take my place, think about changing it.

Yours,
Barry

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Here comes the remix!

http://www.popcultureshock.com/features.php?id=837

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"I read in Wizard that Batman can defeat us all" is a line that should be required by law to appear in all comic books ever.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Wally,

I'm your real father.
Just kidding! Your real dad is Hal Jordan! Kidding again. It's really Jimmy Olsen, the only other person in comics with your hair color, except Archie, but he's sterile. Sorry kid.

Yer pal,
Barry

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 September 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Today's the day we find out!!! Big day!!! I'm such a loser!!!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder what the word "anti-climactic" sounds like at supersonic speeds...

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It sounds like a spinning TOP.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

If he's the Top, we're ALL the bottom!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I was more confused than disappointed, though the confusion was disappointing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

TELL US! Please.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

So there's this supervillain called the Top, and he, uh, spins. And he, um, hates the Flash and then he dies. His ghost, or perhaps his "mindforce" then possesses Barry Allen's dad and does crazy, terrible things in an ill-fitting costume. The he possesses some kid and continues to terrorize the Flash, climaxing in digging up Iris Allen's grave (which, um, would it be empty? What is the proper thing to do with a grave when the dead come back to life? Or whatever it was that Iris Allen/West did.). So Flash takes him up to the JLA Satellite (which, uh, doesn't look like the good ol' JLA Satellite, it looks like the one in the cartoon) and instead of having Zatanna do an Identity Crisis-style lobotomy, he has her turn the Top from a foe to an ally. Ahem. So then the Top and the Flash become buddies, but the Top can't deal with the guilt over his past crimes. So he, uh, goes crazy. Depossesses the boy whose body he'd been in and disappears.
But his mind is still out there, Wally, and my last request before I go into the future is that you find him and make him a bad guy again.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Not a single word of that made sense.

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I get it, but boy, it's lame. Was Wally supposed to get this letter ten years ago?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the envelope read: "Do not open until Geoff Johns has run out of silly-ass villains to make meaner."

And two issues ago, the Turtle posed an actual threat to the Central-Keystone Twin Cities, so, uh, hello Top!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

So did that disembodied-Top-spirit stuff actually happen in the books?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to recall that some of it did.
Let's give it the old google try.
Oh. Don't img ggl "flash" and "top" at work.

See http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/top.html

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Those Who Ride the Lightning is a great frickin site -- and check it out, The Smallville version of the Flash is Bart Allen.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

When Clark looks through Bart’s fake ID cards, the names are Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West — the three Flashes from the
comics.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Say...the Top moves at very high speeds, not unlike a certain youth recently introduced in Identity Crisis. The Top also hung out with Golden Glider, who has been alleged to be said youth's mother (though Captain Boomerang, who claims to be the father denied that GG is the real mother). Hmmmm...

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

GRUESOME!

http://www.dccomics.com/media/products/3948_a_full.jpg

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

o man carnage fucked the flash up!

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

That is terrible and yet also amazing.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Revive! Since Wally is seemingly off to limbo and the rumourmongers have pegged a rejuvenated Jay Garrick to be the star of the new Flash series and since the old Flash series went out with such a pathetic whimper after a little over 200 issues of greatness.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Jay is best as a supporting character -- one of the better supporting characters in v.3, but just because you dig Carla's husband doesn't mean he should get his own show.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

This is so not about the Flash, but I have to point out the not-irony-at-all in the fact that I am supposed to be writing a high school history textbook right now and am talking about comics instead, which is exactly what I did when I was supposed to be reading high school history textbooks.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! For some reason I watched an episode of Three's Company the other day, and it was the "pilot" for The Ropers, where the Ropers go to buy a house but the realtor guy who lives next door is a snob and doesn't want them in his neighbourhood. And the snob is played by a really young Jeffrey Tambour!!! (okay, that's why I watched it)
Boy, has he improved!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ahaha, I loved The Ropers! So much better than Three's a Crowd, to be fair.

It reminds me of when I occasionally catch the episode of The Brady Bunch that's about the other family adopting the three kids who call themselves The Three Musketeers, and how that must have been intended as a pilot for some spinoff that didn't happen (or isn't rerun).

Even comics do that sometimes, really -- there's at least one issue of the Avengers that was pretty much all Paladin and the Wasp, which seemed like they were trying to convince me that a Paladin series would be really awesome.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

just because you dig Carla's husband doesn't mean he should get his own show

haha, I used to do a Nick Tortelli/Dan Hedaya impression that would literally make a co-worker wet her pants.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Yeah, Harry, but can he do the job? I know he can get the job, but can he do the job? I'm not arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with you." - Dan as "Mr. Waturi"

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I love Joe vs the Volcano so much, you have no idea. The one person I've dated who didn't like the movie was also an enormous mistake, which reinforced my original thinking that watching the movie with someone was the big relationship-potential test.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

He also plays the crooked cop in the first season of Hill Street Blues! (The DVDs just came out.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Joe vs the Volcano - my favorite movie. Mr. Waturi, opening the main drain, the yellow flower, the karmic lightning bolt, the big moon/raft scene, Abe Vigoda, the three Meg versions, Joe hugging the Great Dane, the luggage salesman...

If you haven't played around this site, there's a ton of sounds and images.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

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