Wally West - Where In The World Is Wally West? - Niel Jacoby

Panel 1: We see Wally running fast in some sort of desert locale(blurred due to speed), decked out in a camouflage version of his outfit.

Caption: Wallace West, the government's first line of defense. A one man army, because at his speed, a second person would just slow him down.

Caption: Debuting in...

Inset Panel: Wally reading Men Of War #8, confused.

Caption: ...Men of War #9.

Panel 2: Wally, hollow-eyed, skeletal, pale, and wearing a pitch black version of his costume runs after Mitch Shelley.

Caption: Wally West, a man trapped between life and death, forced to run eternally. Can Mitch Shelly dodge... THE BLACK RACER?

Caption: We'll see in...

Inset panel: Wally reading Resurrection Man #0, annoyed.

Caption: ...Resurrection Man #13.

Panel 3: Wally and Jaime Reyes stand back to back in fighting poses, an unclear, shadowy enemy all around them.

Caption: Wally West, an old friend Jaime Reyes didn't know he had, unwittingly brings with him an unearthly threat. Well, maybe not this Earth...

Caption: Catch the tag-team action in...

Inset panel: Blue Beetle #17 flies past the camera, having been thrown by Wally West, who we can see leaving the panel.

Caption: ...Blue Beetle #18.

Wally(OP): Screw this, maybe Hellblazer's got a place for me. I think I could pull off a trenchcoat pretty well, and I do an alright English accent. Ello, Guv'na! Fancy a spo' of cricke', won'tcha?

Panel 4: From offscreen, someone holds out Hellblazer #300 to Wally, who is crestfallen.

Caption: You're not gonna like this...

Wally: Buggah awl.

Wally West - Father Figures - J.D. Coughlan

SET-UP: Thanksgiving dinner at the Wests'. Wally is 12 years old (not yet Kid Flash, although I may be fudging the timeline here). His parents, Rudy and Mary, are there with Iris and Barry.

Four long horizontal panels.

Panel 1: The dinner table. Wally sits in the middle, between the four adults. Rudy and Barry sit at either end. Everyone is eating and trying to politely converse at the same time. Barry smiles at Wally's comments, Rudy is looking down at his food.

IRIS: So, Wally, given any thought to what you'll do when you leave school?

WALLY: I'd like to help people. Y'know, like the Flash.

RUDY: Pfft. Waste of time...

Panel 2: Same view. Barry is frowning, but still his friendly self. Rudy looks up at Barry like he's an idiot. Wally looks down at his food now, as if having done something wrong.

BARRY: I wouldn't call helping people a waste of time, Rudy.

RUDY: Only person you should look out for is yourself. Nobody's gonna do anything for you, so why bother doing anything for them?

BARRY: Well, that's a pretty cynical way of looking at things...

RUDY: Thank you.

Panel 3: Same view. Rudy's body language is a bit more aggressive now, pointing at Barry and actually looking at him properly. Barry remains politely defensive. Iris is giving Barry a "don't bother" look. Wally now looks at Barry with a little hope. Throughout it all, Mary just keeps eating.

BARRY: Um, no, I-- Never mind.

BARRY: Don't you think that if we all did a little to help--

RUDY: Look, my kid is gonna get a lot further in life if he doesn't waste time with stupid, goody-two-shoes ideas.

MARY: You tell him, Rudy.

BARRY: Maybe. But maybe where he ends up isn't as important as how he gets there.

IRIS: Barry...

Panel 4: Same view. Everyone has their heads down, eating, tension still in their body language, except for Wally, who remains staring hopefully at Barry.

NO DIALOGUE

END OF PAGE

Wally West – Kid Flash Point – Shaun Richens.

PAGE ONE – 6 PANELS.

1. WALLY WEST in the classic KID FLASH get up, heroic smile on his face, the background all a blur of yellow and red as he speeds off to the rescue.

        CAPTION WEST:

Kid Flash, that’s what they called me. I was just as quick as the real deal.

2. DONNA TROY in her WONDER GIRL outfit stands side by side with WALLY still in his KID FLASH costume as they prepare to face off against some unseen foe.

         CAPTION WEST:

         She was the real deal too.

3. BLACK PANEL.

         CAPTION WEST 1:

         I miss her.

         CAPTION WEST 2:

         I miss it all.

4. Close up on WALLY WEST, he is young, around the age when he originally got the KID FLASH powers. He is looking right at us.

        WALLY WEST:

        How can I miss something that never happened?

        WALLY WEST:
       It's all so real to me. It’s as real as walking here this morning.

5. Pull back to show WALLY sat in the office of a therapist. His head in his hands. The THERAPIST sits with his back to us facing WALLY.

         THERAPIST:

It is all going to be ok Wally. We are going to talk this all through.

6. Outside of the THERAPISTS office looking in through the glass panel in the door. WALLY looks angry, his hands clenched into fists.

         WALLY 1:

         Talk this through? You don’t understand.

         (Linked)

         WALLY 2:

         I just want it to be real. I want to go back.

The Flash – The Flash: Earth One: Simple Things – MK Stangeland Jr.

While each of these panels is separate, all of them but panel 1 should also be connected as WALLY WEST zooms from one panel to the next, with color streaks following his movement cutting over the panel dividers to form a single semi-continuous image.

(7 Panels)

Panel 1: WALLY WEST’s bedroom. WALLY is still clearly asleep in bed, while his alarm clock shows 7:49.

WALLY WEST: (Text Box) I think my favorite part right now is getting to sleep in every morning.

WALLY WEST (2): (Text Box) Most kids have to get up at 6 or 7 in the morning to get ready for school.

WALLY WEST (3): (Text Box) I can sleep in till 7:50.

Panel 2: Color streaks flow from the bed to where WALLY WEST stands next to it, hands up in the air as he stretches. He’s currently wearing a white T-Shirt and a pair of red and yellow boxer shorts. The alarm clock now shows 7:50.

SFX: (Alarm clock) beep beep! beep beep!

WALLY WEST: (Text Box) I take 30 seconds to stretch so I don’t get cramps…

Panel 3: Panel shows a bathroom. WALLY WEST isn’t seen in this panel, but the color streaks show him running behind a shower curtain to a running shower.

SFX: (Shower) Shhhhhhh…

WALLY WEST: (Text Box) 30 seconds to shower up…

Panel 4: Color streaks flow from the previous panel to this one, where a blurred WALLY is shown wearing a pair of blue jeans while both putting on a school-appropriate T-Shirt and grabbing his backpack.

WALLY WEST: (Text Box) 10 seconds to put my clothes and on get everything I need for the day…

Panel 5: Color streaks flow from the previous panel to where WALLY is sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast.

WALLY WEST: (Text Box) 2 minutes to eat, but most of that is saying ‘Hi’ to mom and dad in case there’s anything they need to say before I go…

Panel 6: The streets of central city. Color streaks flow to where WALLY is blurred as he delivers a number of punches to a criminal who’s wearing a ski mask and carrying a bag and gun.

SFX: WAK!WAK!WAK!WAK!WAK!

WALLY WEST: (Text Box) 5 minutes to run to school, but two of that is in case I need to stop any unfortunate crooks on my way there…

Panel 7: Color streaks flow to where WALLY comes to a screeching halt behind a bush, with CENTRAL CITY CENTRAL HIGH is seen in the background, with other kids walking up the steps to get inside so they can get to class.

WALLY WEST (Text Box) And that still leaves me nearly two minutes to get to class on time without making anyone suspicious.

(END PAGE)

Wally West- The Road Ahead -Dan Hill

Page One

1.1
We open on a CLOSE UP of Wally, in costume, as he speeds towards us. Behind him we can see lines spreading backwards, depicting the SPEED FORCE.

WALLY (CAPTION)

Tree.

1.2
PROFILE shot of Wally as he continues to speed forwards, lines blurring past him.

WALLY (CAPTION)

The speed force changed me. Or I adapted to it. Hard to say which.

1.3
CUT TO a shot of a LARGE TREE that has fallen across a deserted highway running through a thick forest. We can see a red and yellow blurred line coming towards it and then out the other side, showing us that Wally has vibrated through the tree.

WALLY (CAPTION)

Lake.

1.4
CLOSE UP on Wally’s eyes, concentrating.

WALLY (CAPTION)

My mind has to work quicker than my feet.

1.5
A shot of the red and yellow blur shooting across the surface of a lake.

WALLY (CAPTION)

It has to. I’m the world’s greatest multi-tasker.

1.6
CLOSE UP on Wally’s mouth. He allows himself a smile.

WALLY (CAPTION)

The only drawback?

WALLY (CAPTION)

There are no surpr--

1.7
CRACK! Wally is stopped in his tracks by a sudden punch to his jaw by a red gloved fist.

SFX

THWACK

VOICE (OFF)

Wally West...

1.8
Large panel. Wally lies on the floor, partially propped up on his elbows. He looks up at the FIGURE towering over him with confusion.

The figure standing over him wears a Flash costume just like Wally’s (if we’re going to be sticklers for detail, the shading is slightly darker). This Flash’s legs though have been amputated below the knee. In the place of the regular limbs are what can only be described as Oscar Pistorius’ sprinter blades crossed with Kirby-tech.

OLD MAN WEST

...we need to talk.

Wally West - Those Left Behind - Grant McLaughlin

All the panels are blank, reminiscent of the empty white panels from Crisis on Infinite Earths.  The main way of differentiating between where one ends and where one begins would be the gutters, although those could be a little unclear at times - maybe have captions, word balloons, or images bleed from one into the other.  All captions would be written in red ink, without a box to go around them.  As well, feel free to depict Wally from various odd angles, changing from one panel to the next, if you think that would add to the page.

1 - A blank panel, spanning the top third of the page.  The caption is written in the very centre of the panel.

CAPTION (WALLY): Things move in a funny way here.

2 - A blank panel inset towards the right-hand side of panel 1.  There looks to be something in the far, far distance, but it could also be mistaken for a red smudge on the paper.

CAPTION (WALLY): Wherever here is.

WALLY (so faintly it looks like it's fading away): Jai?

3 - The red speck / blur is getting closer and bigger, but it - like the word balloons - seems to be fading in and out of existence.

CAPTION (WALLY): Feels like I'm always on the move, but I can't tell if I'm making any progress.

WALLY (closer, but still faded): Iris?

4 - The red speck / blur is closer still, now clearly Wally West.  The fading seems to be stopping as he progresses.

WALLY (near normal "volume"): Iris?

CAPTION (WALLY): Or how long I've been going for.

5 - Wally is going at full speed, with some blur trails (or ghosts - whichever you prefer) standing behind him as he races across the blank world.  He seems to have stopped fading, now entirely there.  A look of determination is on his face.

CAPTION (WALLY): All I know is that it hasn't been long enough.

Wally West - Benched - Ben Rosenthal

1.  A teenage Wally West stands on a football field at his high school.  He holds a gridiron ball looking at it as he turns it over in his hands.

CAPTION (Wally)

Ever get the feeling you were meant for something more?

2.  Wally is in the middle of throwing the ball as hard and as far as he can.

CAPTION (Wally)

Somewhere. Deep down in your gut--

3.  A view from behind Wally’s shoulder as he watches the ball from a distance as it falls to the ground.  It is roughly 6 feet from the ground at this stage. 

CAPTION (Wally)

--you just know--

4.  Wally is standing in the spot he was just looking at, having caught the ball.  He looks impressed and dumbfounded at the same time.

WALLY

Woah.

CAPTION (Wally)

You’re special.

Wally West - Band on the Run - R.A. Wonsowski

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Panel 1:  Establishing shot of the Van Buren Bridge that connects Central City and Keystone City, night.  We are on the Keystone City side which is the more blue-collar industrial town of the two.  The cloudy night sky is flashing lightning in the distance...

CAPTION:  3X2 past Flashpoint.

CAPTION:  "...can't outrun the Sideways Men forever, Wallace..."


Panel 2:  Under the bridge, hiding behind the steel struts, an older man (around 45 years old) with rusty blonde hair greying at the temples.  He's wearing a dark blue body suit, but his face is hidden in shadow.  He has the build of a middleweight boxer in his prime, and his body language is angry annoyance as he points towards us.

BLUE:  ...M space is nothing to them, jumping between branes as easy as meditation...

WORD BALLOON:  (from off-panel)  Maybe for you.  I always had a hard time staying still...

BLUE:  ...and when they find us, they will kill us!  Have you ever seen someone get "folded"?


Panel 3:  A young woman (between 25 and 30) statuesque and athletically voluptuous, with long black curly hair in a dark red bodysuit.  (a good photo reference would be Leryn Franco:  http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=745&q=Leryn+Franco&oq=Leryn+Franco&gs_l=img.3...1858.4488.0.5537.12.5.0.7.0.1.278.754.2j1j2.5.0...0.0...1ac.1.W_vTcTt4oP8) )  Her face is hidden as well as she comes out of hiding from the rocks.

WORD BALLOON: (from off-panel)  I'm not worried about getting "folded", Vic.  I'm worried about us.  This timeline didn't recall us.

RED:  Is that why I can't remember anything before we got here?  I can't remember anything...

WORD BALLOON: (from off-panel)  The Sideways Men have been screwing with your timeline for a while.  Your history was a Gordian knot.  Now it's a blank.


Panel 4:  A slender man with a runner's build and red hair, face hidden as he peers around a support.  He wears a yellow body suit, and looks ready to make a dash.

YELLOW:  Besides, we can't worry about that now.  All that concerns me right now is finding Gabriel Walker.  Anyways...


Panel 5:  Running out from under the bridge, towards us:  WALLY WEST leading DONNA TROY, and VIC SAGE, up the rocky hill, the bridge and the river behind them.

WALLY:  ...they can't kill you if you were never born.

Why Wally West?

Because SHENANIGANS! on the New 52 for leaving him (and fellow Titan, Donna Troy) out of their universe or whatever...

I should probably state that Barry was always my favourite Flash, but Marv Wolfman (in New Teen Titans), and Mark Waid and Geoff Johns (in Flash), among others, told some nifty stories, taking Wally on a life's-path that I found myself relating to:  young adult trying to step out of a father-figure's shadow, becoming his own man by embracing family traditions after having rejected them.

Now, to be fair, iFanboy did a killer overview on Wally, and at the end of the column, Jeff Reid made the point that Wally did not need to be rebooted, because he had fulfilled the Hero's Journey, having gone from derivative sidekick to Teen Titan to legacy hero, and finally claiming the mantle fully as his own.

 (The whole great article can be found at - http://ifanboy.com/articles/dc-histories-wally-west-kid-flash-i-flash-iii/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ifanboy+%28iFanboy.com+Site+Content%29) 

But still, I cannot help but think that there is still a place for him in this DCnU, so my challenge to all you ThoughtBallooners is this:

Where in the world is post-Flashpoint Wally?
What is he doing out there in the New 52?
Is he hanging out with other forgotten favourites, like the aforementioned Donna, or Stephanie Brown?
Playing "Gotcher nose" with the Question or clinging to Static?
Is he still speeding?  Is he normal?  Or at least unpowered?

You at home can play too!  Just leave your scripts in the comments below!

And now...The Further Adventures of WALLY WEST!