Tag: Flash (Barry Allen)

Superhero TV In The UK

Based here in the UK, there’s sometimes a wait for the US shows to come over. Agents of SHIELD has or is about to start in the US but here, we’re still waiting; Gotham has started its second series in the colonies but nothing here yet; Agent Carter won’t be around until next year; and as of this writing, no network’s picked up Ash vs Evil Dead.

Thankfully Flash is up and running (sorry) and I’m thoroughly enjoying that, particularly with the introduction of Jay Garrick and Earth-2 and this Thursday sees the start of the new Supergirl series which I have high hopes for, if only because it might thumb its nose at the grim, depressing Man of Steel film and its attendant universe.

SupergirlEp1

All told, it’s not a bad time to be a comic fan on TV.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Since the demise of Google Reader, I use Feedly as my RSS feed reader – yeah, I don’t do Twitter so this is how I get most of my news.

I had a busy weekend so didn’t check Feedly for a while but when I did, I found an example of something it does that makes me chuckle. Like most readers, it’ll show you the headlines from sites you’ve subscribed to and also throw out a picture from the page but sometimes, the picture and the headline don’t really match up . . .

Feedly Bad Image

Wow – the new Zoom looks really mean . . .

The Naivete Of Youth

Okay, maybe not youth…

I’m in the process of copying over my notes from the old Annotated Infinite Crisis site and had honestly forgotten how much stuff I’d put into that; not just the seven issues of the main series but a whole bunch of tie-ins and other odds and sods. It’s going to take me a while to get all of that over here, re-do some images, put correct links in to new pages and so on, but it’s getting there.

The reason I mention this now is because I was working on the notes for issue #4 and came across this:

Page 24 – Panel 7    From out of the Speed Force, grabbing Superboy-Prime around the neck comes Flash (Barry Allen), grandfather of Kid Flash. Barry is rare in the world of superheroes: a character who died and, to this day, remains dead. He has appeared occasionally (usually in The Flash during a time-travelling storyline or as a flashback) but in the present day he is still dead, having given his life during Crisis on Infinite Earths.

You have to bear in mind that I wrote the above in 2007 when Barry Allen was indeed “a character who died and, to this day, remains dead“. The idea of bringing him back at that point and basically negating his hugely heroic death in Crisis, was just unthinkable.

And then they went and did it just a year or so later.

Death – it just doesn’t stick, does it?

Flash Sacrifice

Flash! Preacher!

It’s a good time to get back to blogging, I think. There’s been a bunch of things over the last year or so that I’ve wanted to talk about but simply haven’t had the time but with the new site, now’s as good a time as any.

I watched most of the first season of Arrow and, I’m afraid, didn’t really like it. It wasn’t bad – it was just not engaging enough; I’m not really a fan of the grim ‘n’ gritty approach so I ended up falling away. The first season of Flash, however, I absolutely adored. Sure, early episodes were the by now standard monster of the week style, but all of the characters were played so well and there was a freshness and joy to the series – even amongst the darker episodes – that it quickly became a favourite in our house.

And now the trailer for the second season:

Jay Garrick! Yes, there was the tease of his winged helmet in the final episode of season one, but he’s here! Alternate worlds! Yay!

PreacherAnd something else that I’m cautiously optimistic about is Preacher finally getting off the ground and being granted a full series.

Sure, Seth Rogen’s name doesn’t fill me with wonder as about the only thing I really know by him was the woefully inadequate Green Hornet, but I’m willing to give this a go.

I’m just waiting for the American fundamentalist Christians to start shrieking either at the poster on the left or once they get wind of the content of the series.