Comments on: Firestorm backups from The Flash #289 & #290/Aquaman and the Others #2 – FIRE & WATER #88

By: Xum Yukinori

Xum Yukinori — Fri, 16 May 2014 03:54:00 +0000

So essentially Eddie Earhart was like Carradine (the burglar who murdered Ben Parker) in Spider-Man — someone who played a major role in the hero’s creation but only reappears in flashbacks.

I do recall Carradine returned in a Spider Man comic in the 90s… and promptly died.

If Earhart does make a comeback, he should appear just as he did back in 1978… just so we would recognize him…

Xum (pronounced “Zoom”)

By: Tim Wallace

Tim Wallace — Thu, 15 May 2014 17:56:17 +0000

All I could think of was the annoying “beep-beep-beep” trucks make when they back up…so…I’ll second Xum’s “Call for Back-up”…I think its pretty clever!

By: Xum Yukinori

Xum Yukinori — Thu, 15 May 2014 02:49:36 +0000

“The Flash” was indeed a wonderful show. The Trickster movie Rob had mentioned was also released in Asia on VHS as “Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster” — with “Flash I” being the pilot episode. Also released on VHS was “Flash 3: Deadly Nightshade” — which featured the two Nightshade episodes. Living in Hong Kong and Malaysia in the early 1990s, these three PAL tapes comprised my entire collection of “The Flash” show until the entire series DVD was released in the mid-naughties. While some aspects of the show are now charmingly dated, the series as a whole still holds up well in my mind.

And I have just seen the “teaser” for the new Flash Arrow-spinoff on You Tube. It looks like a lot of fun, so here’s a tip of the pen to our two live-action scarlet speedsters:

http://xum-yukinori.blogspot.com/2014/03/unapologetic-zaree_31.html

Best,
Xum (pronounced “Zoom”)

By: Xum Yukinori

Xum Yukinori — Thu, 15 May 2014 02:40:16 +0000

I suppose “Call for Back-up” is just too obvious…

Xum (pronounced “Zoom”)

By: Martin Stein Returns

Martin Stein Returns — Wed, 14 May 2014 01:29:08 +0000

My suggestion for the back-up feature: “The Back Side.”

By: Martin Stein Returns

Martin Stein Returns — Wed, 14 May 2014 00:51:19 +0000

Eddie Earhart never appeared again.

By: Martin Stein Returns

Martin Stein Returns — Wed, 14 May 2014 00:46:52 +0000

Shag— Regarding Cliff walking away with Doreen arm in arm in the Flash backup, the way I interpreted it is that this is the way Ronnie remembered it. Not that it was accurate, but that the whole thing is from Ronnie’s POV. So Ronnie was insecure and jealous of Cliff, and *Ronnie* was perceiving Doreen as Cliff’s girl, and remembered it as his epic failure to secure Doreen’s affections from Cliff. So in his mind, he remembers Doreen walking away with Cliff affectionately, where in “real life” she probably just walked away with Cliff simultaneously and coincidentally.

Me? Yell???

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Tue, 13 May 2014 21:55:46 +0000

Having been introduced to Firestorm in DC Comics Presents and liking the character there and in the Justice League, I came very close to picking up Flash just for the backup, but wound up passing on it at the time. (I had just given Flash a try for a few months, where there was a Rainbow Raider story followed up with a continuity-heavy Mr Element/Dr Alchemy three parter that managed to unsell me on the book, and I couldn’t justify a whole 50 cents for eight pages of The Nuclear Man.)

A pity they didn’t put Firestorm in Adventure and Aquaman in Flash (which is just about the only switch that could have been made in the backup lineup); I was buying Adventure for the Starman stories mainly and viewing Plastic Man as a bonus and the new Aquaman stories did nothing for me at the time.

By: Anj

Anj — Tue, 13 May 2014 13:25:04 +0000

I read the Firestorm backups back in the day and more recently in the trade of the original series. That is some very good Perez art. And I was thrilled to see the ‘Prof Stein has no memories’ plotline go away.

Of all those backups, the one I liked best was ‘Whatever happened to…’ in DCCP. Before Who’s Who, that series was what introduced me to some of the little known characters if the DCU.

As for a name, how about ‘Back-up Files’. After all, you should always back up your files.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 13 May 2014 08:40:39 +0000

“Turbine Tales?”
“Tritium Tales?”
“Rad Brooks?”