What happen to the first firestorm Ronnie Raymond? Martin Stein is still around as the other half of firestorm for both versions.
What happen to the first firestorm Ronnie Raymond?
What happen to the first firestorm Ronnie Raymond? Martin Stein is still around as the other half of firestorm for both versions.
It's surreal to watch the last season or two of Superfriends/Super Powers and see Firestorm (Ronnie/Martin) and Cyborg treated as equals of the Flash and Hal Jordan.
If I recall they sold more toys. Both them had weird gimmick that was popular during their time.
My Firestorm figure got every bit as much playtime as Hal and Flash. Those were by big 3 for a long stretch.
Firestorm is just kinda irrelevant nowadays, with their villains mostly being relegated to cannon fodder in Suicide Squad or villain crowd scenes.
Firestorm was at it most relevant lately in Doomsday Clock where Johns retconned their origin so the professor actually planned the accident that made them Firestorm, which was bullshit.
I wonder what, what killed firestorm?
comic writers being autistic fanboys.
I'm gonna blame the black one, I've always thought he was extremely boring and unnecessary.
Firestorm was only somewhat popular in the late 70s and early 80s, when nuclear MAD was still in public consciousness, same with Captain Atom.
Once nuclear mad kinda dissipated from public consciousness, Firestorm as a character was then only held up by having appearances in the JLA books in the late 70s to mid 80s, solidifying him as a "proper" secondary JLAer in any editors/writers' minds, leading to them bringing him the character and concept back time and time again when most readers do not care about Firestorm.
The design. He looks fricking stupid as all hell.
His powers are too OP on paper despite the limitations writers tried to give him. His villains are also complete trash.
Killer Frost is arguably the more popular character.
His villains are more popular than him.
Many such cases.
the original firestorm series is pretty fun.
Absolutely no one at DC cares about Firestorm, not anymore at least, but at least his villains make good fodder.
Ronnie was meant to be DC's answer to Spider-Man, but no one knows how to write him. I did like dickhead black lantern Ronnie though.
>I did like dickhead black lantern Ronnie though.
that was one of the multiple peak momentos from blackest night
Last I saw was he (Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm) was being recruited into Jon Kent's new Justice league, but he turned it down because he was still traumatized by what happened during Doomsday Clock.
I remember one time I read Firestorm described as a 70s Marvel character lost in 80s DC. For whatever reason I always thought that fit