Wally West, Porcupine Man
Aug. 24th, 2006 03:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shankieThe Flash #24-#28, in which Wally gets turned into basically a monster covered in spikes.
Heh.
Oh yes, and then lots of pseudo-science. Seriously. This was before the Speed Force had been introduced to the DCU, so now and then the issue of just why Wally was so darn fast, or why Barry was, comes up. In this, Wally's lost his powers, and he's angsting hardcore. His pals want to fix that.
Tina has an idea to restart Wally's powers...
And muses about them for a bit.
Pause for Batman reference!
So, despite being an egomaniac, Wally has some serious self-esteem issues. Stimulating the pleasure centers to fix that sounds... dirty.
I would totally not get in that thing. No way man.
It may have worked, so Wally get's all set to make a run...
Has his powers back, may be more powerful than ever, and... doesn't work out very well.
The following is an example of just how destructive superpowers gone wrong can be...
So everyone thinks Wally exploded and is dead.
Issue #25, they angst about this, then things get a little strange...
Then Chunk gets a creepy phone call.
So they go on a road trip...
Along the way, Tina's bringing up that thing about Barry Allen not being human again. When she finally talks to Wally about this, I forget in which issue, he flips out. The idea that Wally isn't human freaks him out to no end, and when he is changed into a Speed Force avatar during Chain Lightning he flips out big time.
But I digress.
The road trip ends up in this town in the middle of nowhere, Texas, and they come across a random weirdo local in Wally's cowl before finding the crater that Wally supposedly exploded in.
They're convinced he's still alive.
And he is.
So Wally's all naked and covered in spines, eh? I think the artist liked drawing this a little too much.
Issue #26, the calvary is hanging out in this little town, and hears rumours about this "porcupine man" legend. A waitress overhears them talking, and invites them to her house to maybe get a glimpse of it.
And what a glimpse they get.
::pets the poor Wally::
Definitely liked drawing that too much, yes indeed...
So, not only is Wally a big spiny freak, he's acting more or less like a terrified wild animal and hallucinating. Which leads to him being cleaned up and fed like a family pet.
More pseudo-science and teh weird...
And Captain Cold, during his "good guy" phase, shows up with his sister. Hoo boy.
The reasons for Flash-cowl boy being all crazy are explained...
And Chunk looks like a Mr. Potato Head through the Wally-vision.
#27: Chunk does his whole singularity thing to try and fix whatever's wrong with Wally... some nonsense about being on the wrong vibrational frequency... or something...
I think writers for the Flash liked making Wally talk like a two year old a little too much...
#28; Wally's flipping out, Captain Cold and Golden Glider are on the scene... but Wally doesn't let a little mental dysfunction get in the way of a good fight.
Golden Glider is a nutcase.
Wally's body is kinda terrifying sometimes. He can't do that thing where he creates his costumes through actual Speed Force material yet... but even so. Absorbing pretty much anything in his system, burning through chemicals in his bloodstream like nothing... man.
Yeah, he steals the costume from Crazy Thinks He's Flash kid and saves some kids with a shovel by digging a big hole to get them out of a cave-in. And everyone ends up happy.
The end.
Heh.
Oh yes, and then lots of pseudo-science. Seriously. This was before the Speed Force had been introduced to the DCU, so now and then the issue of just why Wally was so darn fast, or why Barry was, comes up. In this, Wally's lost his powers, and he's angsting hardcore. His pals want to fix that.
Tina has an idea to restart Wally's powers...
And muses about them for a bit.
Pause for Batman reference!
So, despite being an egomaniac, Wally has some serious self-esteem issues. Stimulating the pleasure centers to fix that sounds... dirty.
I would totally not get in that thing. No way man.
It may have worked, so Wally get's all set to make a run...
Has his powers back, may be more powerful than ever, and... doesn't work out very well.
The following is an example of just how destructive superpowers gone wrong can be...
So everyone thinks Wally exploded and is dead.
Issue #25, they angst about this, then things get a little strange...
Then Chunk gets a creepy phone call.
So they go on a road trip...
Along the way, Tina's bringing up that thing about Barry Allen not being human again. When she finally talks to Wally about this, I forget in which issue, he flips out. The idea that Wally isn't human freaks him out to no end, and when he is changed into a Speed Force avatar during Chain Lightning he flips out big time.
But I digress.
The road trip ends up in this town in the middle of nowhere, Texas, and they come across a random weirdo local in Wally's cowl before finding the crater that Wally supposedly exploded in.
They're convinced he's still alive.
And he is.
So Wally's all naked and covered in spines, eh? I think the artist liked drawing this a little too much.
Issue #26, the calvary is hanging out in this little town, and hears rumours about this "porcupine man" legend. A waitress overhears them talking, and invites them to her house to maybe get a glimpse of it.
And what a glimpse they get.
::pets the poor Wally::
Definitely liked drawing that too much, yes indeed...
So, not only is Wally a big spiny freak, he's acting more or less like a terrified wild animal and hallucinating. Which leads to him being cleaned up and fed like a family pet.
More pseudo-science and teh weird...
And Captain Cold, during his "good guy" phase, shows up with his sister. Hoo boy.
The reasons for Flash-cowl boy being all crazy are explained...
And Chunk looks like a Mr. Potato Head through the Wally-vision.
#27: Chunk does his whole singularity thing to try and fix whatever's wrong with Wally... some nonsense about being on the wrong vibrational frequency... or something...
I think writers for the Flash liked making Wally talk like a two year old a little too much...
#28; Wally's flipping out, Captain Cold and Golden Glider are on the scene... but Wally doesn't let a little mental dysfunction get in the way of a good fight.
Golden Glider is a nutcase.
Wally's body is kinda terrifying sometimes. He can't do that thing where he creates his costumes through actual Speed Force material yet... but even so. Absorbing pretty much anything in his system, burning through chemicals in his bloodstream like nothing... man.
Yeah, he steals the costume from Crazy Thinks He's Flash kid and saves some kids with a shovel by digging a big hole to get them out of a cave-in. And everyone ends up happy.
The end.
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on 2006-08-24 03:40 pm (UTC)It's the getting swept away part that's the rub; Barry Allen was pretty good at using it for time travel, and Wally did a few times (and almost didn't make it back pretty much every time).
He might be in the present. If he is, he's seriously dropped off the radar, but since in the last issue of his run in The Flash, which happened before IC, he actually retired to be with his family, so it's entirely possible.