tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post6746923784775536353..comments2023-07-06T03:35:50.840-05:00Comments on Comics in Crisis: The Greatest Hero CouplesBrian Reaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086329859116256261noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post-60446070504965073832009-02-12T08:52:00.000-06:002009-02-12T08:52:00.000-06:00I think honorable mention should go to Wally West ...I think honorable mention should go to Wally West and his wife Linda Park. They don't have the historical depth to make your "greatest couples" list. But their relationship had an amazingly transformative effect on his character--making him much more interesting, in the long run (ha! Flash pun!). Before Linda, Wally was basically a shallow jerk. His realization of the importance of his family have really grounded him as a character. I don't know what's up with him -- if there will be three Flashes running around (it works for the Green Lanterns), or whether they'll scratch Wally now that Barry is back. I hope they keep him around.<BR/><BR/>Barry and Iris are another potential honorable mention. He loved her enough to kill the guy who murdered her--how often do heroes do that, especially in the early 80s? (Of course, she came back, and it turns out she was from the future after all. Getting chronology straight in the Flash stories can give you a speed force-induced headache!)<BR/><BR/>Dr. OTRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post-26572291416786169002009-02-12T08:40:00.000-06:002009-02-12T08:40:00.000-06:00Okay, I gotta take odds with the Cyclops and Phoen...Okay, I gotta take odds with the Cyclops and Phoenix pairing. Sorry. Before Jean Grey was brought back to life back in X-Factor #1 (Okay, technically in Avengers, but still...), I would have agreed. My reaction is for the opposite reason, though. I've never understood what Cyclops saw in Jean Grey. What made them such a notable couple within comics was the original Phoenix saga. Everything since then has just been a bad soap opera in spandex. While I haven't read the X-Men comics in which Scott hooked up with Emma Frost, I was glad to see him finally move on and ditch the redhead. The entire X-Factor series reduced Jean Grey to the "other woman" and turned Scott into a lousy adulterer... and then committed the biggest screw-up of all, tried to rationalize the whole thing by saying, "Oh, Madelyne was a clone of Jean all along, so Scott cheating on her with Jean was really okay."<BR/><BR/>As for Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, I definitely agree with you there. Even though I was never that into either character or the "Fantastic Four" as a series, it's nice to see a marriage in comics that has actually lasted!Bill, the Wildcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137557955170758994noreply@blogger.com