Analysis Notes
| General |
Only pages 3:3, 7-12:2, and 15:4 are dealt with here |
| 3:3 |
This is a flashback to Impulse #86. Pictured
are Flash II, Impulse, Carol Bucklin, the Tornado Twins, and Max Mercury.
XS, Flash I, Meloni Thawne, Iris Allen, Josh Jackam, and Joan Garrick
were also present. |
| Dialogue is from the Phantom Stranger, but is not tracked. |
| 7-8 |
Max Mercury and the Phantom Stranger are viewing this from
Limbo. |
| 7:4-5 |
Note that Bart hasn’t snatched them from a split-second
before they died, nor brought them from the afterlife, but has somehow
diverged the timestream in a self-aware manner. |
| 9:1 |
The figures being thrown away are Barry, Don, and Dawn.
They are superheroes and can “take it.” Subconsciously,
Bart wouldn’t let the power lash out so strongly at Carol, even
though she is present also. |
| 9:5 |
That is Don Allen’s shoulder. |
| 11:4 |
That is Don Allen in the bubble. |
| 7-11 |
Arguably, Bart hasn’t really brought back his family,
but has instead created simulacra and imbued them with bits of his conscience.
(In particular, observe the comment in 11:3 about Carol’s notebook,
recording all his failures.) Note that the ones who mean the most
to him — Barry and Don — do most of the talking, and the one
he knows the best and thus whom he knows he should listen to the most
— Jenni — doesn’t come to speak with him at all. |
| 11:5 |
“Eris velocituum” is Latin, but the exact translation
isn’t clear: “You will be the speed,” or something like
that. Perhaps “Be one with speed,” a spell to take someone
to the heart of the Speed Force. |
| 12:1-2 |
Note that all the speedsters vanished when Bart did, but
Carol did not. She is thus the real Carol, pulled through time,
not a simulacrum created with the Bedlam power. |
15:4 |
This is not a flashback to the previous issues, since it
includes Wally West. It is a purely non-continuity cameo. |
