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03/25/2004: a Flash question
(no headache-inducing quantum physics or hypertime references in this entry...*g*)
I have a question about that Brother Grimm storyline from Flash #164-169 (the one from which I posted the Flash in chains panels earlier), well actually two questions. In #168 at the beginning we see a landscape without Keystone City, because it has been brought to Grimm's dimension Eastwind using, according to Mirrormaster, a mirror as catalyst -- and at this point I'm wondering if I shouldn't have stuck with just Gotham and its psychotic, but relatively mundane villains -- but whatever, so it's been transported/transformed.
But what happened to Central City? It isn't visible either, and we see a vast landscape and no skyline. It's right across the river from Keystone and the river apparently vanished too. Though while they only talk of Keystone City it seems as if both have vanished. I mean, if they hadn't there ought to have been a lot more chaos too, with the cities' economies so closely intertwined, commuters going back and forth etc.
Which leads to my second question. The area is supposed to be a transportation center, also a place with significant industry. Why isn't there more chaos as it suddenly vanished? (whether just one or both cities) And with Flash being trapped in that other mirror universe for what seems like at least several hours or so, why isn't there any investigation being started meanwhile, I don't know, from the government or any of the superhero teams? Is it common to give the local superhero some time to handle these kinds of things so that nobody gets alarmed when a large city disappears unless it takes too long? Or maybe people are used to Keystone disappearing, after all from what I've read once it was gone for over a decade because of some supervillain plot, so what's a day or two with it missing?
