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Wally West may have just gained a new job with Mister Terrific in The Flash, but he found the perfect job for the Fastest Man Alive years ago.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for The Flash #772 , on sale now from DC Comics.
Wally West recently acquired a new, lucrative job working for Mister Terrific in The Flash #772 by Jeremy Adams, Will Conrad, Alex Sinclair, and Steve Wands. He was recently hired as a engineer for temporal and multiversal studies, two areas Wally is intimately familiar with thanks to his time as the Flash. But decades before Wally was hired by Michael Holt he had a job that was arguably more suited for the Fastest Man Alive.
In The Flash #1 by Mike Baron and Jackson Guice, Wally made a deal with the medical community. In exchange for personally delivering organs to transplant patients, they would give him health insurance, something that his job as a hero did not provide.
Wally was that alternative. His speed meant he could get the heart to the patient within the allotted time. But Wally also recognized that, while he was going to do this regardless of their answer, it was still not exactly fair for him to be their emergency delivery system without some sort of compensation. And he was still fresh on the heels of his predecessor’s death, seeing firsthand the greatest potential cost of being a hero. With this no doubt weighing on his mind, Wally requested health insurance in exchange for his services.
The job makes perfect sense for someone like Wally. Getting organs to transplant patients can be a very time-sensitive matter. The distance can be just as much an impediment as waiting for an organ to become available. So if there existed a way to get the organ to its new owner in a fraction of the time, then it only makes sense to pursue that. This makes the Fastest Man Alive the perfect method of delivery.
This is ultimately an altruistic endeavor as well. To call Wally a glorified deliveryman is underselling the importance of his cargo. Wally was protecting someone’s future as well as delivering a gift left behind by someone generous enough to donate it. If Wally could have found a way to pursue this career further, it might have been the perfect job for him while working as the Flash. It’s more rewarding than punching villains and helps save lives in a more realistic way.
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