Tom vs. The Flash #136 - The Mirror Master's Invincible Bodyguards!/Barry Allen - You're The Flash! - And I Can Prove It!
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2008
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tom versus the Flash number 136 or yes, it is very much a popularity contest. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back for the Flash number 136, the main |
| 0:12.0 | 1963 issue featuring a cover pencil bar Carmen Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson, |
| 0:17.0 | our creative teams for both stories are the same. |
| 0:20.0 | Writer John Broome, Penciler Carmen Inf Infantino, Inker Joe Giella, and editor Julie Schwartz. |
| 0:26.1 | Our first story is The Mirror Masters Invincible Bodyguards. |
| 0:29.7 | We opened with Iris West dragging Barry Allen through Central City. |
| 0:33.3 | They're supposed to have a lunch date, but it was actually Iris tricking Barry into meeting her somewhere. |
| 0:38.9 | A professor Dobel's office. See, he's a life coach who has a program called Start on the Road to Greatness. |
| 0:47.6 | Iris is just laying into Barry about how he's in a rut, he has no ambition, he doesn't want to do anything with his life. |
| 0:53.8 | Now, as a man who's |
| 0:56.3 | 30 years old, you know, he's been through his late 20s, he's been dating the same woman for six years. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm now engaged. I've heard my fair share of you have no ambition. Right now I'm wearing |
| 1:06.8 | Green Bay Packer pajamas and a Green Bay Packer sweats sweatshirt i've been laying on the couch all day |
| 1:13.1 | the difference between me and barry is barry is also the flash but he can't tell her that he's a |
| 1:20.3 | little too busy to be working on his career fighting supervillain so he just goes along with this |
| 1:26.2 | and iris set him up for this she drops him up in the office. There's no receptionist in there. And she just says, stay here. Someone will show up. I'm out of here. Goodbye. Shutting the door behind her, leaving Barry just standing there thinking, what, God, what did I get myself into that this is an acceptable behavior for her? I thought they were just good friends. That's what you told their dad. What kind of good friend tells you |
| 1:47.6 | you're a loser? into that this is an acceptable behavior for her. I thought they were just good friends. |
| 1:45.1 | That's what you told her dad. |
| 1:46.2 | What kind of good friend tells you you're a loser? |
| 1:48.9 | It brings you to a life coach. |
| 1:51.6 | Well, luckily, the receptionist left the radio on in the office, |
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