DC's Best New Story is One That Marvel Should've Told First
Warning: spoilers for Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 are ahead.
The Human Torch of the Fantastic Four is one of Marvel Comics' most popular characters, and an issue of Daredevil from 1988 proves why he has all the makings for a character from DC Comics' new series, Suicide Squad: Blaze. With the ability to «flame on» and transform himself into a fiery juggernaut, Johnny Storm is one of the most high profile examples of pyrokinesis in superhero comics. And while he is just as famous for his confident and irreverent personality as he is for his ability to self-immolate on command, there is a strikingly horrifying truth about the Human Torch's powers that is exposed in Daredevil #261 from Ann Nocenti, John Romita, Jr., Al Williamson, Gregory Wright, and Joe Rosen.
As part of the Inferno storyline, the issue opens with a striking panel of Johnny's anguished face as he is consumed by flames. His narration reads, "There is a moment, between myself and the flame – a burning, eternal, sickening moment – when, no matter how many times I've done this before… I feel this is it. This is the time when my head will truly be consumed by burning searing excruciating flame. It's in that split-second just after I call up my power, just before I am engulfed… it's a split-second of panic, of fear. Even when doused, I burn. I always feel as if on fire." While he is safely in control of his powers on the next page, Daredevil #261 reveals how terrifying it is for the Human Torch to call upon his powers.
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It is for this reason that Marvel would have been able to explore the questions at the heart of DC Comics' best new series, Suicide Squad: Blaze with the Human Torch a long
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