My first encounter with Firestorm was in September 1984 on the cartoon, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show. I found him fascinating and immediately ran out and bought some of his comics. It’s worth noting there were a few minor differences between “our” Firestorm and the Super Friends Firestorm. Here is the Super Friends […]
Posts Tagged ‘Ronnie Raymond’
89 Days, 14 Hours, 32 Minutes, and 59 Seconds
Warning, the following contains relatively-minor SPOILERS for Brightest Day #24. *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** Brightest Day #24 shipped yesterday and I was expecting some sort of announcement regarding spin-offs titles. That’s […]
Blackest Night to Brightest Day: What a Long Strange Trip
Tomorrow will see the release of Brightest Day #24, the final issue in the year-long saga. However, if you really think about it this story began with Blackest Night. Firestorm fans have their fingers crossed that our hero will exit Brightest Day ready to start a new life of adventure with Ronnie and Jason working […]
How Ronnie Raymond Died
Blackest Night and Brightest Day have returned Ronnie Raymond to the land of the living. As we begin to wrap-up Brightest Day, I thought it was a good time to look at how Ronnie Raymond died. He was killed in Identity Crisis #5 (December 2004) which was written by Brad Meltzer, penciled by Rags Morales, […]
Brightest Day #22 Post-Game Report **SPOILERS**
Warning, the following contains SPOILERS for Brightest Day #22. *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** Okay seriously, we’re about to discuss some HUGE Firestorm-related spoilers. If you haven’t read the issue, I strongly […]
Brightest Day #21 Post-Game Report and Speculation
We haven’t seen Firestorm in the past few issues of Brightest Day, but we’ve still got some things to discuss. Warning, the following contains SPOILERS for Brightest Day #18-21. *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER […]
Unhappy Valentine’s Day to Firehawk and Booster Gold
We’ve got a special Valentine’s Day treat for you today… a crossover! Everybody loves a crossover! Today we’ve teamed up with our good buddy Walter from BOOSTERRIFIC to discuss the self-destructive romance between Firehawk and Booster Gold. Let’s face it, everyone makes a relationship mistake at some point. You look back years later and […]
How Ronnie Beat Cancer and Got His Powers Back – 1995
Ronnie Raymond lived the life of a normal guy after leaving the Firestorm Elemental matrix in 1990 (Firestorm vol II #100). Then in 1995 Ronnie was diagnosed with an advanced case of Leukemia. The future was looking pretty bleak for Ronnie, but within a few short months his cancer was cured and he got his […]
John Ostrander: Exclusive Interview with FIRESTORM FAN
We’ve got a special treat today here at FIRESTORM FAN – a fantastic interview with celebrated Firestorm writer, John Ostrander! John Ostrander wrote 45 issues of FIRESTORM vol II from 1987 through 1990. Besides Firestorm co-creator Gerry Conway, Ostrander has written the character more than any other author. The dramatic changes Ostrander introduced to Firestorm […]
Brightest Day #17 Post-Game Report
We may have only had four pages of Firestorm in Brightest Day #17, but they were really good pages! Warning, the following contains SPOILERS for Brightest Day #17. *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE […]
