I Remade My First Video Essay: Five Years Later

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Two years of doing video essays under the Chaos Ensues banner. Doing these video essays gave me back my love of comics. In this video, I’m taking a look back at the very first comics video essay I released.

I haven’t watched this video since I uploaded it five years ago. Kind of forgot it even existed.I’ve talked about Golden Age Wonder Woman comics on here but I’ve enjoyed the Silver Age era of The Flash as well.

The process: I went through the video, reworded it but kept it mostly similar, gave it a facelift. People will get to see the final product.

Thanks for jumping on the Chaos Ensues spaceship these past two years, folks! Up next…intergalactic domination…

TIME CODES:
-0:00–5 Years Later
-0:30—I’m a reaction channel now
-2:46—The remake
-5:03–2 Years of Chaos

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Transcript and stuff:

The Justice League cartoon was my first introduction to The Flash, whose mantle was worn by Wally West. Wally has gone through a lot of changes since his first appearance in Flash #110 from 1959. So in that issue, Wally West shows up in a backup story where he visits his Aunt Iris and finds out that his hero The Flash is Iris’s boyfriend, Barry Allen. Barry being the upstanding guy he is, gives Wally a tour of his lab.

A lightning bolt strikes through a window, hits a wall of chemicals and Wally gets doused. Instead of taking this poor kid to the hospital, The Flash gives him a costume and turns him into a sidekick. Responsible.Kid Flash’s first costume isn't the yellow one that you remember. For about 25 or so issues, Wally West ran around in that red costume.

So where did that iconic yellow costume come from? The first appearance of the new costume was in The Flash #135 from March 1963. The issue is written by John Broome, drawn by Carmine Infantino. Issue #135 or “Secret of the Three Super Weapons” starts off with Kid Flash running around. He gets a warning that his planet is the target of an extraterrestrial war. He bumps into this girl who appears out of nowhere and tells him, “Hey, this species called, like, the Makryds or something is showing up and they're going to destroy Earth. You need to stop it”.

So Kid Flash goes around, he looks for Barry. When he runs into this science facility, The Flash is inspecting these extraterrestrial weapons that just showed up out of nowhere. As Kid Flash is running towards him, a lightning bolt zaps through Flash and hits Wally. Suddenly he goes from that red Flash imitation costume to that yellow and red costume we know.

The logic for this that while Barry was inspecting these extraterrestrial weapons, he was also thinking of a redesign of the Flash’s costume. So that lightning bolt that came out of his chest was kind of like a manifestation of what was going on in his head.

There are some details they add to it. Since Wally's a redhead and that was really distinctive, the way he would disguise himself in future issues is by, like spray painting his hair brown. Clearly they did not think that was worth keeping around. So that's it. Thought this would be a fun comic to talk about. Thanks for watching. Chaos ensues.