RUMOURS TRAVEL FAST

    LITG has, of late, when posting items that may spoil future stories, posted them in white. To read the text, you have to deliberately select it, with big rumour warning implications around...

    It seems that Upper Deck Entertainment has no such reticence. For their "Infinite Crisis" trading card series, there is a promotional page. With two Flashes. If you click on the one standing at the back, you can read his personal history and that (whited out text, select it to read it)...

    the new Flash will be Bart Allen, formerly Impulse. And I quote "To stop the insane villain known as Superboy-Prime, a team of speedsters from several eras trapped their foe within the heart of the speed force, the other-dimensional source of their powers. The effort was untimately unsuccessful, and the attempt seemingly robbed all the Flashes of their physics-defying speed. Only Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, remained in possession of even a fraction of his former super-speed - and Wally West vanished completely, leaving Bart Allen to carry on the mantle of the Flash."

    Also note, that as predicted, Wally West "disappears", rather than dies as previously planned.

    Except, is that an intentional distraction? Something to put people off the track? When researching this further, I'm told that at the end of "Infinite Crisis," Bart reappears older, as seen in that Upper Deck visual, with no powers, and hands the Flash costume to... Jay Garrick. Which is a whole new thing. Are DC playing silly buggers?

    I do hope so. It's much more fun that way.


November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.