DC continues their rollout of Earth-2 character redesigns with the first image of Jay Garrick, the Earth-2 Flash (and previously, the Golden Age Flash), revealed on the cover of Earth 2 #2 in a Newsarama interview with writer James Robinson.
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Either this is a long-con to re-introduce the CSA (superman batman and wondie who readily kill, a jay garrick who looks suspiciously like the CSA's johnny quick, etc) or DC has at this point decided to purposefully give me and people like me the finger.
March 08 2012 at 1:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIn this reality, Jay Garrick grew up reading Peter Parker - The Flash comics? It's pretty bad when the version wearing a salad bowl looks significantly less silly.
March 08 2012 at 12:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySalad Bowl? You mean the standard military helmet from the US army during WWI?
March 08 2012 at 1:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
rborg7
Are you really going to call Jay's helmet silly?
March 08 2012 at 7:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHaving stared at this pic for a few days now... the only part that REALLY annoys me are those goggles...
March 08 2012 at 7:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOh man, everything about Earth 2 simply seems just like New 52 but worse.
March 08 2012 at 5:32 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
Lewis
Has anyone else noticed that it looks like a terrible version of Dresden Codak’s redesign of the flash. http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/
March 08 2012 at 4:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Chunky Style
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More than ever, I wonder if there are two writers working for DC named "James Robinson", and the crappy one keeps getting work based only on his name.
March 08 2012 at 2:10 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyIve been thinking the same thing. None of this seems like what James Robinson of Starman and "Face the Face" and "Shade" would write. I figure he probably really needs money and is doing what DD/JL insist. Either that or he is stealthily making the New52 version of the CSA.
March 08 2012 at 1:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyiit looks like dc is just saying the hell with all of us long time readers
March 07 2012 at 10:17 PM Report abuse Permalink +4 rate up rate down Reply
Kerry Callen
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Just a thought--- DC reinvented the Golden Age heroes for a "modern" audience when they redesigned the characters in the late 50's. Perhaps they are now taking those same Golden Age heroes and again reinventing them for the current "modern" audience. Almost as if the 50's reinvention never happened. I think that would justify the "Earth 2" name.
March 07 2012 at 8:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLet's be clear here... that's not what happened.
Assuming you're talking about the Silver Age resurgence of the super-hero and the re-do's of characters like The Flash and Green Lantern and so on... That's not what happened.
They took Golden Age concepts and titles and completely redesigned, rebooted and recast them. They didn't update old characters. They gave the titles and concepts to completely new characters, which is a helluva lot different than changing a character to 'fit the times'. If that's a new Flash... well, crappy costume but I'll look into it. If that's Jay Garrick... well, then someone has a lot of explaining to do.
The real question is where is Nazi Flash and will he make it from D-Day in time to frown at the camps
March 07 2012 at 3:56 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyJust double up that lightning bolt, people, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO
March 07 2012 at 3:57 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyI think at some point DC decided that they were going to focus on marginal returns from weird people who have uncontrollable attachments to obscure characters, and then got so angry about that decision that they decided to be absolutely sadistic toward those people
March 07 2012 at 3:51 PM Report abuse Permalink +5 rate up rate down Replyuncontrollable attachments? weird people? obscure characters? Those are quite inflamatory words. I dont think Capt. Marvel, Wally West, Jay Garrick and the like qualify as particularly obscure. No they aren't Superman or Batman or Hal Jordan but they have all been very prominent for decades.
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