Flash Flashback: How Does the New Costume Stack Up to the Old?
It stacks up pretty well. Not gonna lie. Personally, I don’t like the rubberiness of it, or the way it bunches up, and I think the colors are too dark. But I think the creators of the new Flash pilot, a spinoff from the CW’s popular Arrow series starring Grant Gustin as the Flash, have their hearts in the right place judging by what they told The Hollywood Reporter. “I hope the fans who treasure the character are as excited as we are by what costume designer Colleen Atwood has achieved with this latest version of The Flash’s iconic suit,” said pilot director/executive producer David Nutter. And anyway, it could be worse. Let’s take a look back through other attempts to bring the Flash to your living room in live-action, in increasing order of WTF. John Wesley Shipp’s Flash costume from the original 1990 The Flash TV show is not too shabby. It’s a remarkably straight take on the comic book costume, except for slightly darker colors. But the fake molded