Okay, hypothesis: Someone fractured time, leaving all the superheroes, i.e., threats to their dastardly plans, on one side, and all the victims on the other.
The plan is, while the superheroes are gone, conquer the world, and then when they come back you’re in a position of power.
These guys are so much beneath notice that they’re not considered a threat and are thus in the victim segment of the timeline, so naturally they’ll step up and save the day against all odds. Huzzah.
When you’re a bad writer looking to make things super-angsty, then you make it so ‘putting right what once went wrong’ only makes things worse instead of putting things back where they belong. So a bad guy can murder your mom, frame your dad for it and for no justifiable reason whatsoever you stop him before he can do the crime and somehow that makes the universe even worse so you have to leave your mother dead and dad framed no matter how illogical it is just so you can angst over not being able to save her when you totally should be able to.
I feel the story lowers, not just his IQ as I said elsewhere, in that ‘verse,’ the other characters also do not think in terms of events in history not being linear, except for the person who caused them.
I [had been] holding faith there was more to the story. I just haven’t seen any clue they’re going to revisit it.
In Flashpoint Paradox Flash uses the speed force to prevent his mother’s death but his travel causes ripples in time which lead to stuff like Superman not being found by the Kents and ending up in a lab, Bruce Wayne got killed in Crime Alley instead of his parents and the Atlanteans and the Amazons are in an all-out war against each other with the entire rest of the planet caught in the middle.
The story in that movie appeared to be incomplete; The character trusted the word of a person he knows caused the murder, if not being the murderer, himself. It didn’t make sense for Allen to not investigate the approach of Kal-El’s [baby shuttle], before undoing his own reason for travel.
Allen is not thinking 6-dimensionally; A person with enough power to time travel isn’t going to have a simple, purposeless murder as a goal. It’s more likely the murderer was either trying to fix or cause some other chain of events.
There is no case which has “a time traveler was involved” where there is not a larger case of WHY “a time traveler became involved” and IN WHAT OTHER EVENT has “THAT time traveler been involved?”
Every single case which involves non-linear event flow has more than one event requiring solution.
So, even if you say “that event was supposed to happen,” the story shows signs Thawn [broke] someone else’s life, placing the unknown person in a location other than burglarizing Mrs. Allen’s house. You then have to solve: “Why did he [break] THAT person? Was it intentional or a side effect of [breaking] someone else’s life, also?” And so on, having to monitor the effect each solution has on each Barry’s and Thawn’s home time frames.
Ok the TV show had a line for this. If you break a cup, you can glue it back together but the cracks will still be there you can never get the cup back to how it originally was. Something to that extent.
Their exclusion might not due to having a low profile, but because neither of them has any legitimate powers.
It would depend whether someone like Flying-Fox Man is still around (he’s obviously an individual, not a team, and not one of the flashier heroes anyway, so the media might overlook him).
This hypothesis implies that the random criminal they were chasing before this all started was actually super powerful and a threat to the villains plans
Until I saw them arriving home in this strip, I’d gotten the impression they were stuck where they were in some kind of time-space loop where they kept walking past the same buildings.
I dodn’t remember them escaping from that, so maybe they took a different path – by following Buckaress’ randomness, rather than Defendress’ logic – and were able to arrive at what appears to be a tidier/spartan facsimile of their home.
In unrelated news Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen, and Karen Starr are missing. I’d have more to say but apparently Peter Parker is too busy to do his job.
Instead we go live to Omni-Man for his take on this.
Okay, hypothesis: Someone fractured time, leaving all the superheroes, i.e., threats to their dastardly plans, on one side, and all the victims on the other.
The plan is, while the superheroes are gone, conquer the world, and then when they come back you’re in a position of power.
These guys are so much beneath notice that they’re not considered a threat and are thus in the victim segment of the timeline, so naturally they’ll step up and save the day against all odds. Huzzah.
Ok but how will it effect the stock market?
Oh shit, the economy!
The equivalent of the Flash probably just tried to prevent the death of his mom or something.
If a time traveler murdered your mother, how does preventing her murder constitute “interference” rather than “correction?”
When you’re a bad writer looking to make things super-angsty, then you make it so ‘putting right what once went wrong’ only makes things worse instead of putting things back where they belong. So a bad guy can murder your mom, frame your dad for it and for no justifiable reason whatsoever you stop him before he can do the crime and somehow that makes the universe even worse so you have to leave your mother dead and dad framed no matter how illogical it is just so you can angst over not being able to save her when you totally should be able to.
I feel the story lowers, not just his IQ as I said elsewhere, in that ‘verse,’ the other characters also do not think in terms of events in history not being linear, except for the person who caused them.
I [had been] holding faith there was more to the story. I just haven’t seen any clue they’re going to revisit it.
That’s a great idea for a TV show! Perhaps we could add some sci-fi and technobabble to it and… wait, they already made one, right?
In Flashpoint Paradox Flash uses the speed force to prevent his mother’s death but his travel causes ripples in time which lead to stuff like Superman not being found by the Kents and ending up in a lab, Bruce Wayne got killed in Crime Alley instead of his parents and the Atlanteans and the Amazons are in an all-out war against each other with the entire rest of the planet caught in the middle.
The story in that movie appeared to be incomplete; The character trusted the word of a person he knows caused the murder, if not being the murderer, himself. It didn’t make sense for Allen to not investigate the approach of Kal-El’s [baby shuttle], before undoing his own reason for travel.
Allen is not thinking 6-dimensionally; A person with enough power to time travel isn’t going to have a simple, purposeless murder as a goal. It’s more likely the murderer was either trying to fix or cause some other chain of events.
In the particular case of the Flash trying to prevent his mother’s murder, it depends on which Flash is making the attempt.
If it’s the Flash whose mother was murdered, then it’s interference.
If it’s the Flash whose mother wasn’t meant to be murdered, then it’s correction.
There is no case which has “a time traveler was involved” where there is not a larger case of WHY “a time traveler became involved” and IN WHAT OTHER EVENT has “THAT time traveler been involved?”
Every single case which involves non-linear event flow has more than one event requiring solution.
So, even if you say “that event was supposed to happen,” the story shows signs Thawn [broke] someone else’s life, placing the unknown person in a location other than burglarizing Mrs. Allen’s house. You then have to solve: “Why did he [break] THAT person? Was it intentional or a side effect of [breaking] someone else’s life, also?” And so on, having to monitor the effect each solution has on each Barry’s and Thawn’s home time frames.
Ok the TV show had a line for this. If you break a cup, you can glue it back together but the cracks will still be there you can never get the cup back to how it originally was. Something to that extent.
Their exclusion might not due to having a low profile, but because neither of them has any legitimate powers.
It would depend whether someone like Flying-Fox Man is still around (he’s obviously an individual, not a team, and not one of the flashier heroes anyway, so the media might overlook him).
This hypothesis implies that the random criminal they were chasing before this all started was actually super powerful and a threat to the villains plans
And honestly I’m cool with that being the case
*affect
Unless she means “effect” in the lesser-known sense of bringing something into effect, and I assume that they already had a functional stock market.
99% of the time, if you want a verb, you want “affect”, and if you want a noun, “effect”.
Until I saw them arriving home in this strip, I’d gotten the impression they were stuck where they were in some kind of time-space loop where they kept walking past the same buildings.
I dodn’t remember them escaping from that, so maybe they took a different path – by following Buckaress’ randomness, rather than Defendress’ logic – and were able to arrive at what appears to be a tidier/spartan facsimile of their home.
I think they were looping earlier because they didn’t have a specific destination in mind, but when they went home, they did.
CONGRATULATIONS! You are no longer super redundant, nor even slightly redundant – you are NOW the whole enchilada. PANIC in 5, 4, 3, 2…
In unrelated news Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen, and Karen Starr are missing. I’d have more to say but apparently Peter Parker is too busy to do his job.
Instead we go live to Omni-Man for his take on this.
Mr Grayson: I don’t feel so good.
The words in last panel really hit hard since Meat Loaf recently died…
What odd the arse?
I mean – what are the odds?
Thanks for today’s comic. No horny today. I promise. I don’t need the toxicity nor do you.