Did that kid just call The Flash by another name? "Flush Man"? What's that all about? The sequence you see here is from the latest issue of The Flash from DC Comics. And yes, the kid called him Flush Man. It's a reference to the 1990s, when The Flash was indeed Flush Man ...in Argentina.
Names in popular stories, including comic book superheroes, are often changed a bit when published in other languages, often to avoid embarrassing connotations. Common product names are changed, too. But that wasn't the case this time; it was a matter of the name already being used for a magazine. The Argentinian tabloid Flash threatened to sue the comic publishers if they published the comic book as The Flash.
Now, The Flash wasn't published by DC Comics in Argentina. Instead it was farmed out to a South American publisher that DC was never happy with. And it was this publisher that came up with Flush Man, which DC wasn't happy about, either. But considering that Flush Man made it into the latest issue of The Flash, we can assume that enough time has passed that the higher-ups at DC can look back and laugh about it now. Read how The Flash became Flush Man at Cracked.
(Image credit: DC Comics)
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