I just read the afterword to Mark Waids Return of Barry Allen storyline in which Eobard Thawne lands in the past during Wallys time as the Flash thinking he is Barry Allen. In the afterword (which is written in a quite funny way) he writes how he went almost insane over all the people telling him to bring Barry Allen back and the answer above to why he couldnt or wouldnt is so powerful it makes me think that maybe it was a mistake bringing Barry back outside of cross media reasons. How Waids…
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