DC Universe #0

Staff writer Ethan Sacks wrote a piece about the shocking return beloved Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen for the Wednesday edition of The New York Daily News and appearing on the newspaper’s website.

The piece came after the Daily News learned that DC Comics was reviving Barry Allen, the Flash (who first appeared in a 1956 issue of Showcase #4) after killing off the character 23 years ago in the now-legendary Crisis on Infinite Earths 12-issue series, then called a “maxi-series.”  The sold-out DC Universe #0 is where Allen reappeared.

The paper interviewed DC Universe co-writer Grant Morrison about the momentus return.

“That's the point of comics - they don't have to die, because they're fictional creations,” said Grant Morrison, told the paper.

Morrison also said, “We can do anything with them, and we can make them come back and make them defy death.”

“And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death,” Morrison added.

Sacks also talked to a comics historian, as well as DC Universe’s other co-writer, Geoff Johns.  Read the entire story here: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2008/04/30/2008-04-30_the_flash_outruns_the_reaper_23_years_af-1.html