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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Flash conjecture
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 22:59:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 22:59:25 1985
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In article <3194@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) writes:
>> From: Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi>
>
>> I suppose everyone knows that Barry and Iris Allen are reunited
>> in the 30th Century in Flash #350....
>>
>> One of the potential continuity problems I mentioned many months ago is
>> that it was established a long time ago that in the 30th Century
>> (in the timeline of the Legion of SuperHeroes), there are two speedsters
>> called The Tornado Twins who are descendants of Barry Allen.
>> [...]
>
>The answer is simple. One of the impressions I've gotten is that once
>CRISIS is all done, anything that happened before it is --- in the words
>of an infamous Presidential Press Secretary --- no longer operative, or
>rather, no longer *necessarily* operative. So, if anything they do from
>then on conflicts with something published 15 years ago, tough toenails.
>So, considering that the Tornado Twins appeared only once (I believe), in
>the late 60's, DC might just decide that they never existed.
>
>--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

Sorry.  The Tornado Twins have *just* been re-introduced to a potentially
adoring public by the Legion Annual.  So much for pretending they never
happened.

Hutch