Hey, everyone complaining about the title of September's All-Flash #1, there's a reason they did that.
Its historical. In the 40s, Jay Garrick shared the spotlight with several other characters in Flash Comics. He'd get a story, and then a few other characters would each issue. When he got popular enough, they gave him his own quarterly special called All-Flash Quarterly because it was all Flash stories.
Still a dumb name, yes, but its historically dumb and that's what DC Comics specializes in.
It never occurred to me that people wouldn't know the history of the name. I am old, I am old, I shall wear my supersuit rolled.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing about the title was that, since it was long gone, it allowed punsters to say a canceled title has "gone the way of All-Flash."*
*I first read this in one of Andrew Smith's Captain Comics columns, but I'm not sure if the Cap'n came up with it himself, or whether it was a fannish thing he picked up and passed along.
I love goofy titles like this! In fact, "Batman Forever" was the only thing I liked about the movie.
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