The Flash or Green Lantern

The Flash, because of that sleek costume, which is simply beautiful no matter WHO'S wearing it, but favourite? Green Lantern, thought I think NO writer has actually ever truly GOT his powers. He can create anything he can imagine. I think Morrison touched upon it really well, with Kyle creating all sorts of crazy constructs, but all in all, not even Johns has really written the character to their fullest potential. He was too busy in Rebirth describing HOW each GL made their constructs rather than how EFFECTIVE they could be with them.

This one is really close for me, as these are two icons in comics as well as two of my favorite franchises.

Flash is a simple concept that has been expanded into something unique over the years. No matter who is under the mask, they are always ready to make a sacrifice (even if it is getting a little cliche for Flashes to be doing that...). Another thing I always liked about the Flash is their positive outlook on the world. You rarely ever see a 'grim and gritty' Flash running around. On top of that, the Flash rogues gallery is one of the best, with the Rogues as the team of criminals that everyone loves to hate and a bunch of crazy futuristic speed force threats. Flash is a legacy, from Max Mercury in the old west to the distant future of Bart Allen and the Legion (which unfortunately might also be getting ruined with the new earth crap). It's a family, something to look t inspiration for, someone who always looks on the bright side, just an all around great hero.

Charlie's right about Green Lantern, there's so much potential with the concept. I'm glad to have been introduced to it with Kyle since I think that his creative mind really pushed the limits more than others in the past. I like seeing all the Earth Green Lantern's being different from one another, but again it's not reaching it's full potential. What comes from the ring should be personal since it's run by imagination and willpower, but it seems like these different personalities are blending together as the same character. Still, I love the space threats they go up against, and the Sinestro Corps looks to add a new dynamic to the GL mythos.

In terms of the characters and stories, the ones I've read and enjoyed are pretty much neck and neck. In the end, I like the Flash more for his optimism.

Conceptually, Green Lantern is cooler. No slight against the Flashes, especially Wally, who I've already begun to write in Teen Titans.

But is it wrong that I like the evil speedsters, Zoom and Inertia, more?

Zoom is the greatest villain ever. The Flash, officially, has better villains than any character. But you all knew that already

I think Barry Allen died for two reasons: 1) The Crisis needed an "ultimate sacrifice" to lend it that dramatic impact, and 2) The writer on the solo title had pretty much written Barry out of action (killed Iris, made Barry and the world believe he was a murderer, beat him into disfigurement, and sent him into the future). It was problematical to pick up the shreds of Barry's life after what Cary Bates (the writer) had done to him, so they made the decision to start over!

For what it's worth, Wally West did kinda morph into Barry (as he is virtual unrecognizable as the Wally West who was Kid Flash in the New Teen Titans--- it's like he was two different characters with two distinct personalities)!

Barry Allen may have been the perfect hero with the strongest beliefs like Superman, the writers had nothing for him. Nothing that made him interesting. So they offed him. Now the cycle repeated itself to Bart Allen. Bart is dead now, so why would I even the title??? So I can read about the return of Barry Allen??? That is if they do revive him. Death means nothing in comics. Death is just a gimmick now a days just to increase sales figures.

Remember that Captain James T. Kirk is the better captain of the Enterprise.

Well, when you bring the fact that Flashes die into it, you could bring up the fact that Hal Jordan went crazy and turned into Parallax, Jade died, and Guy has gone through a couple lame transformations. The GL mythos has it's ups and downs just as the Flash mythos does.

And Barry killed because he was boring...that sounds like what happened with Hal Jordan in the 90s.

I don't know if he ever died, but I know at one point he had a yellow ring, then he found out he had some alien dna or something and became Guy Gardener Warrior (and I can't for the life of me remember what his powers were, I just remember being really confused just starting to read mainstream comics and trying to understand GL mythos outside of Kyle).

"Remember that Captain James T. Kirk is the better captain of the Enterprise."

*sigh* Now I can't disown you like everyone else!

First: Guy Gardner Warrior was half vuldarian or some such and he had the powers of Random from X-men's comics: he could morph his body into weapons and such, often projectiles and body armor, for fighting and blasting.

Second: I chose the Flashes.

I've always had a warm spot for speed: the very concepts and mechanics of speed interest me, though I don't know how to drive or how to fix a car. But I love thrill seeking, often looking for the fastest and craziest roller coasters and rides at amusement parks...

With the Flash, I kinda of grew up with him as a hero. Barry I started with, reading my uncle's comics, and then Wally is who brought me into the comic world deeper when I began to buy my own comics as a teenager. And he carried me through (in Mark Waid's run all the way to the end of it) into becoming a deeper fanboy.

I love the GLs, and Kyle was my fave GL though I had first been a diehard fan of Hal; but I have a connection to them...maybe it's the speed force.

I also loved Morrison's Kyle and Waid's Kyle and the various GL writers who used Kyle in a way that no one ever wrote the Gls before; they really showed more of what the imagination part of the hero job could bring to the GL role, and how much Kyle expanded the concept and variety of the GL ring. Because frankly, Hal bored me after reading dozens of tales of being weak against yellow and finding a humorous or ridiculous way out of it (I grew up reading early SIlver Age tales of Hal) and I was bored seeing boxing gloves...

Kyle was the epitome of GL in my eyes, until writers began to EFF him up...

But anyway, I digress. I loved Barry, fell in love with the stories of Wally and finding new abilities, got to enjoy the flash family and the legacy that would come of them, and eventually found myself, to this day, one of the Flash Family's greatest fans (besides this last series and the end of the previous volume).

The GLs come in a very close second though, because I love them just a little less...

Especially since Flashes villains actually managed to kill a Flash...

Flash's Rogues were made bad asses by Geoff Johns, especially Cold. I believe Cold was the one that gathered them together as a team. And yes they managed to actually a Flash, but I don't think that Bart Allen to be Flash yet or it was poor writting, I don't know.

But I've a fan of Green Lantern since Emerald Twilight, so that is it.

Dead or alive my opinions will be be like me, a trouble-maker.

Mischief

If voting for Flash makes me wrong then I don't wanna be right!

I just think it'd be tough to write The Flash... Speed is always a tough thing to describe, not to mention I don't know much about Barry... Wait, is there a need for a Flash writer now?