Friday, November 9, 2012

THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE!

WHAT WAS IT ABOUT THE FLASH? Batman I got. Superman? Duh. But The Flash? There was something about him that hooked me immediately upon seeing the character at 3 or 4, which became a full-on obsession once the John Wesley Shipp Flash TV show premiered...
My design for The Flash combines elements of all the incarnations of the Scarlet Speedster, but primarily Golden Age Flash's helmet and retro feel and Silver Age Flash's mask and red color scheme:
The Flash was produced in Fall 2011 and consists primarily of a GI Joe 25th Anniversary Crimson Guard figure. The helmet is from a Mattel DC Infinite Heroes Golden Age Flash (the only decent, usable part of that figure). The rest is GI Joe bits from my Graveyard. The logo was scratch-built from thin plastic and strategically-cut toothpicks.
THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE GETS THE SLIP ON THE COLDEST CROOKS AROUND!
Some of Captain Cold's goons are robbing a high-security vault-- they're about to become frozen dinner! Now you see them in the vault, now you don't! Flash-frozen by a human whirlwind!
NEXT TIME: NOT-SO-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN