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all the people saying Barry Allen is the only neurotypical flash bc he's boring have clearly never met a white middle class autistic man in his 30s

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Jay kicking cops out of his house like a pro.

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Hiya there. I'm sorry but I'm very confused about how old Bart is supposed to be during Young Justice 95. I hear everything from 12 to 22 and I can't look this up easily. If you could help me I'd be so appreciative.

Hello! If you're confused it's because it is a little confusing unless you've read Bart's origins from the beginning, and even then it's weird.

To answer your question I'm just going to go through what happened with Bart and his accelerated aging, and how old he is supposed to be in Young Justice (1998) not 1995.

I'm even going to frustrate you in one key moment, but it's Waid's fault not mine.

The Flash (1987) #93

When Bart is first evacuated from the future to the past, he is physically 12 years old, so this is where some people claim he is 12 - but the thing is, he aged an additional 2 years while running away from Wally putting him at 14 physically.

In Impulse, we do get another recap to what happened and more insight to how "old" he is supposed to be.

Impulse (1995) #1

Transcript of the important bubbles

Apparently, I was born with Grandpa's speed -- and a mega-metaloblism metabolism. It was whacked. They say I was aging at hyper-speed. At two, I looked twelve. I'd still be two in the head if the scientists hadn't plugged it with virtual reality.

So this gives us two details that are important;

1.) his chronological age is two, 2.) he was educated appropriately according to his physical age in relative time (VR) so developmentally he is not a toddler, as some people try to claim. Bart is very clear about this.

There also this very strange list of personal stats that you can make of it what you will from the same issue;

It could mean that when he was physically 8 he was mentally 14, whatever that means, maybe that's the level of "course work" he was doing - it also lists that his "VR Age" is 19 which could mean that when it comes to relative time to Bart, he's spent 19 years there instead of 14, or 8. We have no idea. I doubt if you even asked Waid what this was supposed to mean he would be able to answer it an it's likely a detail we're supposed to ignore but we have it regardless.

The thing about this is that it adds evidence that Bart's age is not entirely reliable based on his physical age, or his chronological age as they are totally out of sync with each other.

This is not the frustrating detail I was talking about. The frustration comes literally later back to back and contains a discrepancy that DC had to make a note about because Waid goofed in his own writing.

Impulse (1995) #1

Max claims Bart is FOURTEEN. 14. We got this. We so got this. Then-

Impulse (1995) #2

Max claims Bart is actually fifteen. 🙃

This however was a printed mistake, and reader Charles Skaggs commented on it as being very strange, which prompted the editor to clarify that Bart is, in fact, supposed to be FOURTEEN.

Impulse (1995) #5 Letters to the Editor Section

So, when Bart is first around as Impulse he is solidly fourteen years and then, as sometimes it happens in the comics, he celebrates a birthday which bumps his age to finally being fifteen.

Impulse (1995) #22

Bart turns fifteen years old in this issue which was released in February of 1997, pre-dating the very first issue of Young Justice.

To quote the editor above, for all intents and purposes, Bart during all of Young Justice is fifteen years old, and then in Teen Titans (2003) he is sixteen.

Comic time can be tricky to parse out and unravel, and it also is not uncommon for writers to contradict each other (or themselves like Waid) and for time to just not add up (Bart's solo features more than one Christmas suggesting two years have past, and Bedlam also claims later two years past since he met Bart but Bart's age doesn't change - this is just normal comic wormhole time that's part of the frustration.)

We're not going to get into the other discrepancies or the time(s) Bart was aged up to an adult as these are irrelevant to his age in Young Justice.

I hope this makes sense.

TLDR: He's fifteen in Young Justice (1998)

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Barry Allen, my pretty girl <3

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Barry's so fucking funny dude he could be getting torn apart by the timestream itself and still geek out over the science so badly he has to scold himself for getting distracted

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"Bart, I love you! I've always loved you! Tell me it's how you feel, too! ...yeah, figured that would do it."

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Perfect (in my mind)

Honestly… I draw these guys often I just never post em

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Silly impulse doodle

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Absolute Flash #1 preview

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the A in Allen stands for Autism & ADHD

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do you remember when wally west just wanted his kids back and the writers couldn’t just let him have it. yeah i wish i didn’t either

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face of a teenager who doesn’t want to be there

Doctor Mid-Nite in Jay Garrick: The Flash #5 by Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui

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DC x POKEMON

Featuring Barry Allen/The Flash with his two Pokémon. :)I had part of this drawn last year, but decided to just fix it up and make it look pretty. A fun little doodle page, basically. Enjoy!

Signature is for my twitter, follow me there as well if you’d like! :)

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I think it’s really funny that Batman seems to do most of the science work for the justice league when he’s not even an actual scientist. he’s just a med school dropout at most. there’s so many examples with assorted justice leaguers bc so many of them are scientists but in particular I’m just like why is Batman processing evidence when Flash is a literal forensic scientist in his day job. like what happened there? Bruce said “actually I’ve watched a ton of cop shows and like CSI shows so naturally this is my job now” and Barry’s sitting there with his actual degree in forensic science or criminal justice or whatever and he’s like “you sure you don’t want help?” and Bruce tells him he works alone and Barry just shrugs and leaves the room because it’s a lost cause

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there's something terribly bittersweet about wally west's hero-worship for barry allen, especially pre-flashpoint, CERTAINLY if you consider the canonical evidence pointing to rudy west being abusive.

because wally idolized the flash from a young age. when he became kid flash, it was genuinely a dream come true. but despite being a hero, having powers, working with the flash, this doesn't save wally from the abusive he faced at home.

what was it like; beating up criminals with your hero and locking them away, then going home to a monster?

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Wally West: *takes a deep breath*

Wally: I lo-

Everyone who’s ever known Wally for more than 5 seconds: yes, you love Linda Park, we know, you love Linda so much, she’s the light of your life, she’s your beacon, you love her so much, you just love Linda. We KNOW, you love her, you fucking love Linda Park ok we know, we get it, YOU LOVE LINDA FREAKIN’ PARK. WE GET IT!