"Flash of Two Worlds" - is any version of that still canon?
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"Flash of Two Worlds" - is any version of that still canon?
Noticed that DC is releasing FLASH OF TWO WORLDS DELUXE EDITION HC this Wednesday.
By the way, after the reintroduction of the JSA back into the DC Universe in recent issues of Justice League (and in Doomsday Clock), where does that leave the classic "Flash of Two Worlds" in terms of current-DC continuity? Not having read the issues of JL that included the JSA (still waiting to see whether I might get a tpb collection whenever it gets released in the future), was the JSA on the same Earth as the JL? Do they remember their 1941 encounter with the JL of the "future"? If the classic pre-CoIE story of the "first" meeting of Jay and Barry still no longer is possible, does the revised post-CoIE version from Secret Origins #50 in 1990 still possibly apply in current DC continuity (not just in "head-canon")?
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NOV190539
(W) Gardner Fox, John Broome
(A) Joe Giella, Sid Greene
(CA) Murphy Anderson
(A/CA) Carmine Infantino
Learn how police scientist Barry Allen, the Flash of the 1960s, first crossed paths with Jay Garrick, the Flash of the 1940s, in this hardcover collecting The Flash #123, #129, #137, #151, #170 and #173. These are the stories that first established the science fiction concept of parallel universes in DC Comics, as the Fastest Man Alive learned to use his super-speed to travel across dimensions to Earth-2!
In Shops: Feb 26, 2020
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By the way, after the reintroduction of the JSA back into the DC Universe in recent issues of Justice League (and in Doomsday Clock), where does that leave the classic "Flash of Two Worlds" in terms of current-DC continuity? Not having read the issues of JL that included the JSA (still waiting to see whether I might get a tpb collection whenever it gets released in the future), was the JSA on the same Earth as the JL? Do they remember their 1941 encounter with the JL of the "future"? If the classic pre-CoIE story of the "first" meeting of Jay and Barry still no longer is possible, does the revised post-CoIE version from Secret Origins #50 in 1990 still possibly apply in current DC continuity (not just in "head-canon")?
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Re: "Flash of Two Worlds" - is any version of that still canon?
MajorHoy wrote:where does that leave the classic "Flash of Two Worlds" in terms of current-DC continuity?
I think it's hard to know unless DC explicitly says something. During Convergence they "undid" COIE, but then said those earths evolved into the modern ones. What does that mean? We need to see it in a story, otherwise it's just a guess.
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Well, I'm assuming that the WWII-era JSA and the present-day JL were both from the same Earth, or was it revealed that they weren't?Mbast1 wrote:I think it's hard to know unless DC explicitly says something. During Convergence they "undid" COIE, but then said those earths evolved into the modern ones. What does that mean? We need to see it in a story, otherwise it's just a guess.MajorHoy wrote:where does that leave the classic "Flash of Two Worlds" in terms of current-DC continuity?
Was anything mentioned as to whether the JSA and the JL will remember this meeting they just had in the future, or is this something that the JSA won't remember because of whatever happened in this story?
(Or did DC and Snyder/Tynion IV refuse to commit to anything in the story?)
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Continuity? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Re: "Flash of Two Worlds" - is any version of that still canon?
At least one version of the story clearly is still canon, as it was glimpsed briefly in a recent issue of Flash...
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Re: "Flash of Two Worlds" - is any version of that still canon?
I remember that! I thought it was a very imaginative update to the story.
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Though I never really knew if there was any particular reason for Morrison choosing the specific narrator he used for that one.tony ingram wrote:I remember that! I thought it was a very imaginative update to the story.
(It was an interesting move, but . . . )
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Trying to fathom how Grant's mind works is pretty futile at the best of times, he's clearly on another plane of reality. But yes, choosing a narrator with no obvious connection to the Flash legacy was a little strange even for him.MajorHoy wrote:Though I never really knew if there was any particular reason for Morrison choosing the specific narrator he used for that one.tony ingram wrote:I remember that! I thought it was a very imaginative update to the story.
(It was an interesting move, but . . . )
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Well, the narrator did have a bit of a connection to a Flash's past . . .tony ingram wrote:Trying to fathom how Grant's mind works is pretty futile at the best of times, he's clearly on another plane of reality. But yes, choosing a narrator with no obvious connection to the Flash legacy was a little strange even for him.MajorHoy wrote:Though I never really knew if there was any particular reason for Morrison choosing the specific narrator he used for that one.
(It was an interesting move, but . . . )
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Yes, but not either of the Flashes actually central to the story!MajorHoy wrote:Well, the narrator did have a bit of a connection to a Flash's past . . .tony ingram wrote:Trying to fathom how Grant's mind works is pretty futile at the best of times, he's clearly on another plane of reality. But yes, choosing a narrator with no obvious connection to the Flash legacy was a little strange even for him.MajorHoy wrote:Though I never really knew if there was any particular reason for Morrison choosing the specific narrator he used for that one.
(It was an interesting move, but . . . )
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tony ingram wrote:Yes, but not either of the Flashes actually central to the story!
Oh, you silly linear thinker you. It's like you're not even trying to follow the logic of a drug-altered magician. I mean, really.
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