Wonder Woman's final scene in CRISIS #12, in which it was revealed that the event that appeared to had killed her a few pages earlier had actually regressed her backward in time: "From woman... to girl... to infant... to her original state of creation (the clay of Paradise Island)."

The cover of WONDER WOMAN #129, an "impossible tale" of Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl (Wonder Woman as a teen) and Wonder Tot (Wonder Woman as an infant), working together to save their mother Queen Hippolyta from falling within an active volcano.

I don't believe it was mentioned that Wonder Woman's final appearence in CRISIS #12 was an homage to the silver age "Impossible tales" featuring Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, and Wonder Tot, who were all the same person at different ages, teaming up to go on adventures together...

A black and white stat of the cover of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #2, as it appeared in the inside back cover of WHO'S WHO #2. This stat shows Green Lantern and Firestorm as transparent overlays. They do not appear in the depicted scene in the comic story itself.

If you thought it odd for Green Lantern and Firestorm to be on the cover, they originally weren't.

Check out the inside back cover of WHO'S WHO #2, featuring a CRISIS 2 cover with these two characters shown as transparent overlays. This suggests they were added by Mr. Pérez after the fact...

I'll have to ask Mom and Aunt Yumi if they ever did pranks... besides the one they tried to pull on Dad...

I probably couldn't eat pasta for at least a month...

Ugh... So sorry that happened to you, sir...

The rating system should include a code for "shows that shouldn't be watched while eating"...

Congrats, Uncle Rob.

Would love to, but cannot. Perhaps next year...

A scene from the "Twin Streaks" episode from THE FLASH, in which Dr Tina McGee (played by Amanda Pays) is tossing a look of frustrated disbelief at Barry Allen (played by John Wesley Shipp) in response to him dismissing her warnings about his declining health by saying that he feels "great"...

My mom has given me this look quite a number of times in my life…

A scene from the "Twin Streaks" episode of THE FLASH plays on a TV in the background with subtitles on, while in the foreground is an actual shooting script for that episode, opened to page 21, which features the same scene and subtitled dialouge as on the screen...

I watched it with double subtitles... It seemed fitting...

A copy of the Blu-Ray set of THE FLASH 1990 complete series, next to a mug featuing the 1990 CBS promo logo for the show.

True, but a vidcap from my Dad's old PAL tape of "THE FLASH 3" would had been impossible...

Blue Bolt and Stompa reviving Astaire and Rogers... (credit to Uncle @siskoid.bsky.social for the idea)

What? No April Fools Bit? I Don’t Think So… - The Fire and Water Network We need more levity in the world today, even 47 seconds worth... Originally recorded in 2019 by Xum Yukinori; edited in 2025 by Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori. Xum Yukinori (1963-2019) Please feel free to lea...

A week ago, I noted that @fwpodcasts.bsky.social didn't have any April Fools Day content...

But an Interspatial Time Conveyor fixed that... for about 47 seconds...

fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/apri...

Next time on "Bricking It", we discuss whether the barefoot John McLane would had escaped the DIE HARD terrorists if they threw a bunch of Lego bricks into the hallway instead of the broken glass from the shot-up partitions...

"With great harmony comes great responsibility"...?

I'll have to get cards printed up...

An excerpt from Marv Wolfman's editorial in the letter column of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #2: With as much enthusiasm as we could muster we began our explanations. "See, Dick," I started, "DC mythology is so confusing Sherlock Holmes couldn't make sense of it. Why don't we do a book which clarifies what DC is? We can call it THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE." Len interjected, "We start with Anthro, the first boy, and end with Kamandi, the last. Actually, we go further, but you know what we mean." Dick smiled at us with the kind of smile that says "I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. They've flipped out."

Found it. Marv Wolfman's editorial in the letter column of CRISIS issue 2. And according to him, Len Wein actually said it...

You are welcome, Uncle Shag. I also seem to recall reading Marv Wolfman saying something along the lines of "going from Anthro, the first boy, to Kamandi, the last" in one of Dad's old Crisis articles in AMAZING HEROES or COMICS JOURNAL or COMICS IBTERVIEW... somewhere...

Why did the Monitor recruit Blue Beetle II? Because of the magic scarab...

EXCEPT... according to the Blue Beetle WHO'S WHO entries, Ted Kord NEVER had the scarab. It was buried with Dan Garret on Pago Island.

So to get the scarab, the Monitor needed to recruit Blue Beetle I from the past...

"...giving her cat’s eyes, just so she has those when she’s the Harbinger, but not when she’s Lyla. Lyla has an ordinary Earth woman’s eyes." 7/7

Mr. Pérez also noted a visual cue about the Harbinger that I do not recall being discussed in THE MONITOR TAPES: "My little gimmick, which I usually do for a lot of characters, is to show an alien by doing something with the eyes..." 6/

(Of course, if they established in CRISIS that Lyla had multiple personalities as part of her ability to split into multiple people, that would explain all of the different portrayals of Lyla at least...) 5/

"All I contributed was the costume and the fact that Marv and I decided that she can split into more than one person, and keep the identity intact." 4/

He also stated: "When CRISIS was discussed, Marv decided to use this woman, who was an afterthought at the time ... she became a totally different character, the Harbinger. It was Marv’s idea to give her that power." 3/

In an interview with George Pérez in COMICS INTERVIEW #50, it was Mr. Pérez's idea to add Lyla to the scene in the Monitor's first appearance in THE NEW TEEN TITANS, envisioning her as "just one of many women who was in this ship with the Monitor ... one of many secretaries." 2/

Not necessarily solving another mystery, but here is an interesting fact regarding Lyla's, and Harbinger's, original concept that may or may not be related to the inconsistent portrayals of Lyla in the pre-CRISIS Monitor appearances... 1/

It may be. It wasn't with the page in the auction...

This tells me that either George Pérez or inker Dick Giordano drew the falling snow as black splotches on an overlay, and the production team reversed them as the "white dropout" over all colors of the production films.

CC: @onceuponageek.bsky.social

A note in the bottom margin of the original art of page 13 of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #3, which reads: "Note: Draw snow on overlay to be white dropout"

A note in the right margin of the original art of page 13 of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #3, which reads: "2 overlays this page: 1. Surprint: Blue, 2. White drop out all colors. Include black."

There are notes in the margins to "Draw snow on overlay to be white dropout" and the "White dropout [overlay is for] all colors, include[ing] black."

comics.ha.com/itm/original...