Writings and Other Things

  A poster for The Flash noticably without the actual Flash How do you begin a review of a movie with this much baggage? I don't really know, so I'm just going to try and keep my thoughts to what was on screen. Anything having to do with, say, the main star of this movie, you probably already know. So let's go. Spoilers, of course, for The Flash . There is a moment in this film where Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) is explaining to Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) about how time travel actually works, that time isn't linear. He uses spaghetti as a metaphor, showing that if you change time too much, you get a bunch of cooked spaghetti, some timelines almost parallel, some intersecting, but what you mainly get is a hot mess. How does Bruce Wayne know this? It isn't explained. This entire scene is here to explain why we are getting Michael Keaton instead of Ben Affleck, why we are getting Kara Zor-El instead of Kal-El. It's a handwave, a "Don't worry about it"...

  Waller vs. Wildstorm Writer: Spencer Ackerman & Evan Narcisse Artist: Jesus Merino Inks: Vicente Cifuentes, Pgs. 9-26 Colors: Michael Atiyeh Letters: Dave Sharpe Book Two Cover: Waller, Jackson King, and Adeline Kane over a map of Gamorra, while Deathblow hangs down from a helicopter. Page One, Panel One: "Gamorra. Six days earlier." This entire issue takes place six days prior to the first issue. Where the first issue is mainly from the perspective of Lois Lane and Jackson King, however, most of this issue is from the perspective of Amanda Waller. Page One, Panel Panel Five: This is Yumiko Gamorra, daughter of Kaizen Gamorra, former dictator of Gamorra.  Page Three, Panel Three: The golden statue is of Kaizen Gamorra shaking hands with JFK. The broken window in the background acts as a halo of sorts and might indicate that things still aren't as stable as they want in Gamorra, especially since last issue we learned that there is still an underground resistance agai...