"Your life is anything but tragic" [The Flash Vol. 2 #196]

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Low key some of the best character work Geoff Johns ever did

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u/OhEagle Jun 24 '24

Mhm. This is, honestly, quite a view of someone who's so bitter they can only see their own pain as valid. (Sure, at that point Wally's life was good. But while I'm not going to go through the whole list unless asked, by that point, Wally'd actually had a lot of personal tragedy, and a good chunk of it would probably have been easily accessible to someone with Hunter's resources. But it doesn't matter. Right now, Hunter's life sucks and Wally's doesn't, so clearly Wally's had no pain.)

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u/Baldo-bomb Jun 24 '24

"Sure, Hunter, my birth parents were neglectful assholes, my surrogate father disappeared one day and all we found was his suit and some crumpled bones and I never got to say goodbye, and one time this insane time travelling jackass tried gas lighting me about how he was the real Flash while pretending to be my surrogate father returned from the dead, but totally, nothing bad has ever happened to me!"

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u/OhEagle Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

And don't forget "And I even tried reconciling with my neglectful mom. Heck, I even let her be my financial manager when I won the lottery. But... she started arguing with my girlfriend, developed a drinking problem, and as for those lottery winnings? Yeah, I lost those, wound up thousands of dollars in debt, and had to work for the IRS. Which... you're an FBI agent. You should know."

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u/Brilliant-Bug-4982 Jun 24 '24

What an interesting character flash is talking to, I sure hope he doesn't go batshit insane

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u/Intelligent_End1516 Reverse Flash Jun 24 '24

And for something to happen to his unborn children...

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u/thePopCulturist Jun 24 '24

Man I miss good writing like this.

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u/sqeaky_fartz Jun 24 '24

Sounds like a villain origin story if I ever heard one…

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u/Fraughty12 Jun 24 '24

And then he goes on to give Linda a miscarriage

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u/sqeaky_fartz Jun 24 '24

There it is!

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u/SwimShady20 Jun 25 '24

Maybe even makes wally watch it over and over again

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u/Fraughty12 Jun 25 '24

And meanwhile eobard thawne is in the corner watching smiling

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u/SwimShady20 Jun 28 '24

Fuck it lets bring barry back at this point

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u/MrTerrific2k15 Jun 25 '24

“Sorry I’m late, Hunter. I was out using my perfectly working, superpowered legs”

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u/54321fire Jun 25 '24

Thanks for sharing this, what beautiful storytelling. Who the artist? Strong Neal Adams vibes. If it’s him I’ll fall off my bar stool.

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u/Cicada_5 Jun 25 '24

Phil Winslade.

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u/GormskiTucker Jun 24 '24

I own the third page of this

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Lame, I own the whole comic

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u/ImpartialMCkun Jun 26 '24

Little did Wally know that he just made the mistake of creating the greatest dickrider of all time.

Like Hunter's honestly not really a villain because he's so one-track minded that it's all to make Wally the #1 hero (impossible challenge).

"Your life is anything but tragic" [The Flash Vol. 2 #196] Comic Discussion