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04/14/2004: random Flash comments
I've just read Flash #136-138, "The Human Race", and the plot is kind of bizarre-- and not really in a good way either, more like "bizarre" as in "ludicrous": some ultra-dimensional highly evolved alien gamblers make Wally race a being from another planet, threatening to destroy the looser's world, and Flash's opponent in the race is a lifeform made from radio waves and also happens to have been Wally's "imaginary" childhood friend with whom he talked through a radio. ... Yeah it doesn't make much sense to me either. Did I mention that over the course of their race on a four dimensional track they travel through a black hole, go back in time, meet blue cavemen (who actually are Guardians of the Universe way back when they were still hunters) and some dinosaur, run through exploding Krypton... and it only gets totally incomprehensible at the end. When he saves that whacky radio-wave world along with earth by tuning all of earth's radios to their frequency after he gambled with the alien that they leave earth alone if he travelled faster back to earth than their instantaneous signal (not that "instantaneous" makes much sense in the first place if they travel through both space and time, but whatever), which he did with enough time to spare to do the fiddling with the radios.
But anyway, what I really wanted to say was, that it's really cute that Wally as a kid had a USS Enterprise model in his room. So Wally wasn't just a Flash geek. And his line at the end when he talks with those fourth graders "Linda and I are enjoying a state of mutual cohabitation... although if the principal asks, I'm not endorsing that lifestyle, okay?" was fun.
Though I guess it's more a sign of my current state of being completely smitten with Flash-love that I'm looking at the positive in those three issues.
