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Rewriting What Happened To The Flash In Heroes In Crisis One More Time

Published Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:18:15 -0500

Heroes In Crisis by Tom King and Clay Mann was a series that turned Wally West, The Flash, into a mass murderer and, in the process, killed off Roy Harper and Poison Ivy. It was by accident, but he then decided that the best thing to do was to cover up the crime and pin it on Booster Gold and Harley Quinn while trying to make some of it right by leaking all the personal superhero secrets held by The Sanctuary, before handing himself in, and going to jail, though not before he was kneed in the bollocks by Harley Quinn.

He was later sprung as some kind of cosmic treadmill, and gaining the powers of a God in Flash Forward, who explained what happened was all because Wally West felt lonely, his wife and kids were taken away from him by changing timelines.

With Wally West suspecting that the multiverse was extracting karma from him, as well as a note to an abandoned storyline where he would have been reinvented as the superhero Penance to make up for his suns.

But what of his decision to cover up what had happened? Professor Thawne, the Reverse-Flash, repeatedly interfered in Barry Allen's timestream and those around him, using the power of the negative speed force, which has another power that Thawne takes full advantage of.

Whispering in the ear of all the Flashes across the decades, playing the role of the serpent, crawling on his belly at super speed.

So it was Professor Thawne who made him do all of that. But what about the big explosion he caused? Well, today's Flash Annual 2021 takes that away as well. following a surge in the Speed Force back in time to a familiar spot. But a new revelation.

Rewriting What Happened To The Flash In Heroes In Crisis One More Time

So none of it, not the explosions, not the deaths, not the coverups, were Wally West's fault. He's in the clear.

And he even has Roy Harper willingly accepting his death if it means saving others.

All better? Can we forget the bit about him leaking all the Sanctuary data, or will we need yet another storyline to explain that one away as well?

FLASH 2021 ANNUAL #1 CVR A BRANDON PETERSON
(W) Jeremy Adams (A) Brandon Peterson, Fernando Pasarin (CA) Brandon Peterson
The lightning-fast and action-packed "Surge" storyline races to its conclusion as Wally West returns to the present day with a new perspective on the past and a reinvigorated desire to take back the mantle of the Flash. With one last hurdle to leap, Wally puts the past behind him, but he'll need to propel himself further and faster than ever before to do it. Retail: $5.99 In-Store Date: 07/13/2021

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