Some Notes Concerning An Out-Of-Context Panel From A Silver- Age Flash Comic Book
Comments Off | Posted: May 17th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
From Flash #106, written by John Broome.
Art by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The Flash Volume One
- I’m pretty sure we’ve all had days that are eerily mirrored by this panel’s contents.
- Seriously, a play about a gorilla can run for three years in Central City? They’ve never heard of Mamet or Ibsen or Miller1, have they?
- I bet that costume gets absolutely unbearable under stage lights.
- Do you think this guy gets groupies? Groupies that tell him to leave the mask on? Contemplate that for a moment, won’t you?
- That “something terrible” is probably “completely torpedoing your career,” dude.
1Arthur, not Frank. That said, I’d totally check out a Frank Miller version of The Crucible. “Little Abigail Williams. Always willing to point her finger where it doesn’t belong…for a price. Sweet chunks.”
