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kelson

Name: Kelson Vibber

Bio: Flash fan and proprietor of the blog SpeedForce.org.


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June 29, 2010 4:30 pm

I was surprised at how new-reader friendly this book actually was. They tell you everything you need to know about Velocity and the series' villain in the course of the first chapter.  You can pick this book up and not worry at all about whether the character has been around for 20 minutes or 20 years - the important stuff is all there on the page.

Thanks for the link to my writeup of how the Casey/ChrisCross series fell apart.  If anyone's interested, here's my own review of Velocity #1.

May 8, 2009 2:00 pm Hah!  I was just joking about this story on some forums a few days ago!  Thanks for posting these panels!
March 31, 2009 7:51 pm

@Jesse1125: Costume-wise they're very similar.  The main differences are in the mask and belt:

Barry's belt is always straight around the waist, and the eyes are always open.

Wally started out wearing the same costume as Barry, then changed to a revised version that had a V-shaped belt, white lenses over the eyes, and was shinier.  Over time he dropped the lenses and went back to the non-shiny costume

Bart has worn both designs during his brief career as the Flash.

Personality-wise:

Barry is a scientist. He's methodical, thinks things through, and uses his knowledge of physics and chemistry as part of his strategy.

Wally is more hotheaded (though less so than he was at the start of his career) and is more likely to try first to physically subdue his opponent, then fall back on strategy if that fails.

Bart is very impulsive, and will generally do the first thing that pops into his head without thinking ti through.

So there's sort of a spectrum

March 18, 2009 5:43 pm

@Daytona: Wally's back up to full speed.  Limiting him to the speed of sound wasn't a change in direction, it was an obstacle for that story arc.

@burn: Cyborg's been updated a bunch of times, then reverted a few years ago.  He got an almost totally robotic shell in the early 1990s, then had this weird spiky black-and-red look as "Cyberion" in the mid-1990s, then turned solid gold looking sort of like Captain Atom in the late 1990s, then got reset to hisbasic look aroun 2002 or so.  Examples here.