Geoff Johns has no control over The Flash itself , or at least none he ' s exercised . He ' s not even doing much in comics anymore . He didn ' t do anything to bring him back the last 6 years . Hartley lives in Central City with his boyfriend and Barry . Break him up , distance him from The Rogues BAD IDEA , and act like he wasn ' t Barry ' s friend and was always Wally ' s ? Get rid of the only gay recurring characters in one of your major books ? It ' s not just about lost relationships or whatever . It ' s that these characters are going to be in The Flash book . That used to be Wally ' s and now it ' s not . It ' s Barry ' s , so Barry gets them as a supporting cast . Which means Wally doesn ' t . Unless you ' re going to have The Rogues migrate cities on a weekly basis fighting two different Flashes or some nonsense . I ' m not even that sad about it , I ' m just stating facts . Things I knew were coming 7 years ago and are the case now . It has nothing to do with pessimism . I read solicits , I know there ' s no Wally book in the pipeline . He ' s a Titans character , like he as before Flashpoint . That ' s what we ' re getting since Titans ' sales hasn ' t been some blockbuster to encourage them to make a Wally solo .