As well they should. The Once and Future Wig is a treasure.

THE WIG WILL LIVE AGAIN AND ALWAYS. Remember how grotty Ollie was when he finally decided he was ready to be rescued? If we get flashbacks next year — and the goddamned flashbacks had better not stop until we see Oliver grump-assing his way to being a captain in the Bratva alongside the gloriously expansive KGBeast —…

His sad bullshit excuses give me all of the joy. All of it.

He doesn’t seek out young posh totty, but he doesn’t say no if it’s offered. As I’ve mentioned previously, his true superpower is his ability to get laid. Shagging Thea would be so in-character — and would give Oliver such a rage-stroke — that I wouldn’t find it squicky. We’re talking about a character who got a…

No worries on clarifying a little for you. As evinced from my typos, I wasn’t dwelling on my word choices so I didn’t take the time to consider how they might be interpreted. The other thing I think I should have been clearer on is that if he is hired by io9, I think we will see a drop in the number of complete…

Not sure what exactly earned the Eyes of Disapproval here, but I will assure you I wasn’t making a dig. There’s no mistaking that CB very much (and very understandably) wants to be part of the io9 staff, at minimum as a recapper/reviewer for some series he loves. In retrospect, I guess I could have used ‘auditioning’…

I don’t know his comics. He recruited Bruce Wayne to teach him to fight? If so, then maybe we’ll have a DCTVU variation on that at some point.

Same. Little too bleak for my liking for this particular series. If there is a secret other ominous reason that Henry has and only confided to Joe, I hope it’s something satisfyingly comic booky. Creepy or weird, IOW, not dying-dad stuff.

A teaser and a link to the review as posted on O-Deck would be ideal. (These reviews get posted there and at the very instant any rexap on the io9 main page go live.) I too have no complaints about these recaps. I have praised the enthusiasm and effort CB puts into them. But, please, since they’ll always be the first…

When I was 18, on one memorabile occasion, I tripped and fell. The force of catching my weight when my palms hit the pavement was enough to fracture my right elbow, which never touched the ground. It ultimately wasn’t set properly so I lost 45 degrees of rotation in my lower arm. I think about this whenever Barry…

I was so happy Oliver and Thea finally got everything sorted so they could share her loft with, like, her attempted murder being their only understandable drama of note. That’s our tradeoff: no issues living with parents on the Flash, but no creepy sibling issues on Arrow. (Tommy and Thea didn’t know they were related…

That didn’t stop him from moving in with Dad 2.0, Joe, when Joe was empty-nesting. Likely Barry moved back out during the six months we didn’t see (those atty letters were already postmarked 2016, btw), but being totally stoked to move in with a parental figure isn’t just in-character, it’s canon. Bless his heart.

I would love that. I need to JFGI to verify, but I’m pretty sure the Firestorm Matrix was a composite of three merged characters at one point. Having even an Earth-2 or Earth-3 Ronnie on the scene would work for me.

Henry looked so queasy during that scene that I thought he was going to reveal he has a terminal illness. I’m still not certain he isn’t terminally ill given that look he shared with Joe. Finding out Henry was dying would absolutely kneecap Barry as the Flash in a way even an actual kneecapping couldn’t do. In fact,…

Cisco is the one who can see other worlds and timelines. He probably spots Ronnie first and points Barry in the right direction.

Sorry for the weird sentence fragment at the start. Much like Barry, I too don’t brain good very often. Fortunately, my rogues are just weird little ferrets.

I was thinking about that glorious tutorial Oliver gave Barry about why always taking the time — since Barry has it — to inspect a place before engaging a baddie. I adore that scene and how beautifully it demonstrated what a jackass Oliver is. That was also my ultimate Batman and Superman scene because if Bruce could…

I would love to see a failed attempt at improving the punches he throws during a crossover. Someone on Team Arrow needs to watch some slowed security footage and note how much Barry sucks at any kind of actual fighting. I don’t want perfect heroes, so the ultimate outcome of any attempts to train him needs to be…

Being a gifted scientist does not come with well-rounded thinking guaranteed. In fact, he’s probably so focused when it comes to science, both innately and from years of education and work experience, that well-rounded thinking is impossible for him save for occasional idiot savantish moments that surprise him and…

At least that version of Cold and Heatwave were part of Barry’s fantasy. I was willing to pretend Barry was cat-and-mousing a little, but I was taken aback to the point of being thrown out by Snart snarling that one day he was gonna kill Flash. That was so uncharacteristically, well, heated, I was wtf’d out of…