FLASH
REBIRTH:
WATCHING IT UNFOLD
by Michael
McDaniel
It has been more than
20 years since the Silver Age Flash (aka Barry Allen)
ran towards his destiny in the pages of the now classic
maxi-series “Crisis on Infinite Earths”.
I remember this event- and I don’t use the term
EVENT lightly- like it was yesterday mostly because
it was only a month removed from the death of Supergirl.
In just two months, two big named heroes had died. These
deaths were the first of many for my comic reading career.
By the twelve and final issue, more characters met their
makers that I could keep track. Suffice it to say, it
was like the stage during the final act of a Shakespeare
play- littered with bodies.
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FINAL CRISIS
NOTES:
THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION
BY "LEAPING" LINT
HTCHER
Ideas
have consequences. Like the steps on a staircase,
they take you somewhere.
On the flip side, the lack of an idea, the absence
of a step or two in the staircase, can stop you in
your tracks.
A case in point: the scientific revolution took hold
in the West rather than the East. In the West, Christianity
firmly established the idea that the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob was a God of reason and order. This
was a step in the staircase. The next step was scientific
method: repeat an experiment, get the same results,
and you've got yourself a universal law. Step number
one, the God of reason and order, lends the West a
basic assumption: in this universe, you can expect
the same action to yeild the same results again and
again — a basis for building technology. In
the East, that first step was missing. There the basic
assumption stated that all was illusion. There was
no reason to expect an experiment to produce the same
result time after time. No reason to experiment. No
confidence that reality was dependable.
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SECRET INVASION WRAP
UP
BY AJ JAZZY D
Here’s what I predicted at the
beginning of SI:
Possible Skrulls
- Spider-Woman. Called it.
- Anybody who’s 1970s version didn’t
pop out of the crashed Skrull transport (Spider-Woman,
Iron Fist, Black Widow, Echo, Ares, and Sentry).
In the Director’s cut, Bendis emphasis this
panel but suggests it could be all Skrulls. all
humans, or even half and half. First, all
human would be stupid, and half and half is just
cheating. Called it. But then
they brought back a bunch of them--that was weird.
Maybe it’s a trick, but really it just seemed
like a total cop out. The Skrull’s
are a big threat, not big enough to kill anymore
than maybe three major characters, but they’re
a really big threat. Seriously. Really.
Big. Whatever.
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