Why is it so hard to just remove her from the timeline? Go back, grab her, bring her forward to the present. She lives, everything is unchanged. Bonus points if you leave Thawne depowered in the past.

Yeah. As much as Thawne hates Barry, he kind of depends upon him for his very existence.

Don't think too hard about this stuff. The writers never do.

A lot of that fight with Rival was just bright yellow and red lines moving across a static image of the set.

That doesn't explain why Barry didn't rush in and back him up.

The interplay between them reminded me that he pretended to be Wells for a season, and that he and Barry have a weird rapport that transcends their mutual hate.

Yes, during the Eclipso event. Then Zero Hour came along and wiped out all the originals. There's nothing to wonder about. Somebody at DC wanted to scrap the Golden Age characters and/or really piss off Roy Thomas for some reason.

We're the middle children of history.

I don't know what you have planned for tonight, but count me out.

I have her debut in Infinity, Inc., where Roy "the Boy" Thomas was very consciously updating the Golden Age characters with legacy versions, many of them women or people of color. Jonni was earlier than but still connected thematically to Roy's new Hourman, Doctor Mid-Nite, and Wild Cat. She didn't have a thunderbolt…

Yeah. It was a thing.

You know, Excitable Misunderstood Genius, every year of my life I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful, if we’ll just take the time to look at it.

Is it any worse than that Corben book from ages ago? I wanna say it was written by Azzarello. It tried real hard to be Shaft; to this day I'm not even sure that the Luke Cage who appeared in it had any actual superpowers.

Hah, maybe!

Eh, maybe. The Flex mini isn't really about Flex, it just uses him as a vehicle to explore the idea of how important fiction is to the human mind, how it can sustain us and occasionally save us from ourselves.

Panther feels like a book I should like, but it's not coming together for me either. The last page reveal of the most recent issue should have elicited a fist pump from me rather than a "whatever."

If you didn't like "Flex Mentallo" than you may not care for Doom Patrol neither.

Harsh but fair! I remember being really excited when Rucka first started on Wonder Woman, because the very existence of the title character meant he wouldn't feel the need to add a "tough chick" to the cast.

I loved it. It took me longer than five minutes to read each of those issues, and I actually felt like I got my money's worth out of them.

I haven't gotten to Deathstroke or WW yet - I save my favored books for last - but yeah, it is. It's Priest! I can barely contain my excitement that he's writing a mainstream supers book again.