Blogotional: Comic Art

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Comic Art

Few characters in comics have seen as many guises as Bart Allen, at least without going throough some transformative process.

Bart is the grandson of the Silver Age Flash (Barry Allen) who is sent back from the future by his grandmother for training for handling the super-powers he has inherited. When he first came on the scene, he was guised as Impulse, which is as you see him depicted throughout this post. He later takes the guise of Kid Flash and finally as the fourth Flash. The Impulse moniker was a reflection of his personality more than his power, so it was natural that he would mature out of it.

I was grossly disap-pointed when he first ap-peared because of the Impulse identity. He should have been Kid Flash from the beginning - everyone in the world wanted a new Kid Flash, Impulse just seemed like a tease. Besides, that Impulse costume just does not cut it in comparison to the Kid Flash costume. And now that Bart is THE Flash, I am ready for a new Kid Flash, my favorite "sidekick" character of all time, yes, even more than Robin.

Impulse was probabaly best as you see him below, running in front of the pack known as Young Justice. He looks good there. this is a character still very much in development. Only time will tell how he will turn out, but his heritage is great.