Happy Thanksgiving to all the match-heads out there! This year we have something extra-special to be thankful for… a brand new ongoing FIRESTORM series! Hooray! Below is a little Thanksgiving fun from the 2003 JSA/JLA Thanksgiving get-together in JSA #54. This issue featured Ronnie when he was operating solo as Firestorm. Firestorm and Doctor Fate [...]
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How Ronnie Raymond Died
Blackest Night and Brightest Day have returned Ronnie Raymond to the land of the living. As we begin to wrap-up Brightest Day, I thought it was a good time to look at how Ronnie Raymond died. He was killed in Identity Crisis #5 (December 2004) which was written by Brad Meltzer, penciled by Rags Morales, [...]
Jim Lee redesign of Firestorm costume from 2003
Back in November 2002, Wizard Magazine reported that Jim Lee had designed a new Firestorm costume for the Mike Carey Firestorm series in development at the time. Since then I’ve been looking for these supposed Jim Lee designs. Recently the sketches below were brought to my attention. Personally I like all these designs! I guess [...]
Unhappy Valentine’s Day to Firehawk and Booster Gold
We’ve got a special Valentine’s Day treat for you today… a crossover! Everybody loves a crossover! Today we’ve teamed up with our good buddy Walter from BOOSTERRIFIC to discuss the self-destructive romance between Firehawk and Booster Gold. Let’s face it, everyone makes a relationship mistake at some point. You look back years later and [...]
How Ronnie Beat Cancer and Got His Powers Back – 1995
Ronnie Raymond lived the life of a normal guy after leaving the Firestorm Elemental matrix in 1990 (Firestorm vol II #100). Then in 1995 Ronnie was diagnosed with an advanced case of Leukemia. The future was looking pretty bleak for Ronnie, but within a few short months his cancer was cured and he got his [...]
Happy Thanksgiving from FIRESTORM FAN
Happy Thanksgiving to all the match-heads out there! Thanks to A.j. Chwaster for sending this image my way! Click the image to enlarge. Support Firestorm! Fan the flame!
Shadow Thief’s Trial for the Murder of Firestorm
Firestorm (the Ronnie Raymond solo version) was murdered by the Shadow Thief during the Identity Crisis mini-series in 2004. Shadow Thief was apprehended by the JLA & Manhunter and then put on trial for the murder of Firestorm. That trial is featured in the trade paperback Manhunter: Trial by Fire. I heard from numerous sources [...]
Hi, My Name is Ronnie Raymond and I’m an Alcoholic
Many Firestorm fans have expressed concerns about Ronnie’s drinking in the current Brightest Day series considering his battle with alcoholism in the mid-1990s. If you examine Brightest Day by itself, I think it’s quite understandable that a college-aged young man who just returned from the dead would enjoy a good drink. However things become a [...]
Brightest Day Speculation – What’s Going on with the Nuclear Man?
Warning… the following contains SPOILERS for Blackest Night and Brightest Day #0 – #2. *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** *** SPOILER SPACE *** Okay, we’re three issues into Brightest Day and we’re starting to get a [...]
