tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post8752098601550486838..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: New Teen Titans Archives Vol. 2 hardcover (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-84953301449243816802010-01-11T17:07:32.420-06:002010-01-11T17:07:32.420-06:00Undoubtedly one of my top ten comics pet peeves is...Undoubtedly one of my top ten comics pet peeves is creators writing the DCU's Wally like the Justice League Unlimited character. Just plain sloppy.<br /><br />I've only known the post-Crisis Wally, and so the pre-Crisis character was startling for me; I'm coming at it the opposite way from you. Thanks for the comment; very interesting!collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-17814661990930150772010-01-11T16:41:39.603-06:002010-01-11T16:41:39.603-06:00I second the comment about Wally West's charac...I second the comment about Wally West's character. As an original reader of these <i>New Teen Titans</i> stories, this was the Wally I grew up with. His parents were supportive and normal, his background Midwestern and normal, his values conservative, his personality self-doubting. His self-declared normality and other traits made him a contrast to Dick Grayson, who seemed to handle superhero life so effortlessly (in Wally's eyes). <br /><br />Wally's post-<i>Crisis</i> personality and past are quite different, and the comic-relief Flash from the <i>Justice League</i> TV cartoon has added yet another persona on top of that. I find myself missing the old "terminally normal" Wally, but of course most of what I'm really missing is being fifteen again.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.com