some chained Flash...

[ratcreature]

What is it with DC and this dog collar fetish? You might remember my recent posts with the collared Lex and the one before with the bondage-gear Batman... Well this isn't nearly as extreme (but then it isn't from an Elseworld either), but I still wonder why in the splash page/panel from Flash #169 the Flash wears a collar when he doesn't wear one anywhere in the actual story (though he is tied down in a guillotine at the beginning). This continues the habit from the previous issue where again the splash page/panel shows the Flash in far more elaborate chains, than he wears at any time in the actual story.

I mean, I get that Flash looks pretty in chains and all, no argument here, and yet-- somehow I find this weird.

Comments

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Hee hee...
I think they are pandering to the superhero in chains fetish we obviously have. :D

[ratcreature]

Yeah, by now I don't doubt that. It's not like I'm looking specifically for this stuff (though it might be part why I like the DCU *grin*), but apparently in any random selection of a couple of DC comics you get some. I mean the fetish stuff has been with the DCU from the beginning (old Wonder Woman comics, anyone?), yet I still found it a bit odd that they throw in some extra chains and collars in the splash panels just for the heck of it.

[meret.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for posting these. :)

[ratcreature]

Always happy to share the pretty -- I mean, the chains really do go rather well with his costume. ;)

[thawrecka]

Very pretty, somewhat nonsensical.

But, oh, his little thoughts. Wally/Linda OTP!!!

[ratcreature]

Oh yeah, I like Wally/Linda, too, which makes it even more heartbreaking what they had to go through in the recent issues.