>>109801562>I can't stand you traditionalist DCfags.I'm not opposed to change. I'd just prefer change is an aesthetic improvement.
I preferred the Rebirth Superman suit to the OG, but I also prefer the OG to Bendis' OG with bullshit pointless cuffs.
With that said, I thought Earth 2 Superman's costume had the best implementation of cuffs, because they matched the design of the boots. Change is not inherently a bad thing. Unfortunately however, more aesthetic change tends to look more like dogshit than what it is replacing. It isn't blind nostalgia that compels everyone to wants things to look like they used to. It is simply a preference of what looks better over what looks worse.
So in the case of The Flash, the far right of this image is the official style guide for how he was meant to look during the Silver Age.
Middle is a mock up of how I prefer he looks, and the Left is Doc Shaner's take on his contemporary look. I don't need the wings on the boots. I don't need the lightning bolt belt going in the same direction. I like a lot of what we first saw done in Wally's Flash costume. I think Barry looks better with those details incorporated in his costume. Now if we ever got back to a point where Wally was THE Flash again, and Barry was off the board, I want Barry looking like his Silver Age self, because in the case he shows up, the differences in costume design become the detail that fans recognize that identifies who they are looking at, similarly to how Jay has retained his Golden Age look.
As Barry is THE de facto Flash however, I'm okay with his incorporating some of the new with the old, because I think the combo looks better than the original. With that said, excessive etched in lining has been shown to more often than not look busy and bad. When it is done modestly like Doc did here, I don't mind it. When it highlights while Barry is running, speedforce_I_dont_need_to_explain_it.jpg, fine, but it doesn't need to be like it was in the early New 52.
