Though I must point out that some might be offended that the black firestorm turns evil and it’s the white one that has to save him.

Actually it might have worked slightly better had Ronnie become the villain as it would have been more of a twist and less on the oft-repeated comic meme that if you’re “too smart” you must end up a villain. Plus it would have fit with 1) Ronnie being a big football player, he would understand the concept of “make sacrifices to win the game” and so drift further and further down the “it all justifies” road, 2) it would have been cool to see that Ronnie could be a smart guy and crafty in ways we didn’t expect, 3) even been a clever set up as Ronnie fears Jason is growing power-mad, and ends up going power-mad himself trying to prevent it.

Although I still can’t care that much about z-tech.

I think I am in the minority on this, but I would have loved to have seen this played out. I was very intrigued by the early Firestorm direction. I felt this was one of the few New 52 comics that really struck out to make something different than before and took some real chances. Not sure that making Jason a potential future despot would have worked out very well in the DC Universe, but nice to know he would have been redeemed.

Don’t get me wrong, I was happy with the return to “normal,” but I just wish that DC would have stuck with something for a little bit instead of the ever-changing rotation we got.

The idea of taking Firestorm in a somewhat “cosmic” turn would have been a really different take on the character from what I have read and would have been interesting to see play out. Maybe there will be a chance for Mr. Harris to revist some of these plans somewhere down the line.