He wanted Flash to use the cosmic treadmill, the device that allowed Barry Allen to travel through time and between dimensions, to alter the past. During an encounter with Grodd at Iron Heights, Zolomon was crippled, and asked Flash for a favor. In this case, though, we’re talking about Wally West, several years after Barry Allen was presumed dead and Wally had taken up the red cowl. Zolomon found himself injured in the line of duty, brought on by his own overconfidence on the same mission that led to the death of his father-in-law, which had the expected effect on his marriage. So the clowns that don’t merit attention from Flash or Green Lantern or Batman or Blue Devil or ‘Mazing Man get dealt with by specially trained police and FBI agents. I guess the logic is that as saturated with superheroes and villains that the DC Universe is, there’s even more metahuman activity that doesn’t actually make it into the pages of comic books. As Zoom himself put it, “this complicates things.” But the comic book version of Zolomon was a member of the Keystone City Police Department who specialized in cracking cases involving low level metahumans. Of course, we learned that Hunter Zolomon, because of a handful of weird issues, is simply the Jay Garrick of Earth One on The Flash. And, of course, the show recently introduced us to a familiar looking version of Hunter Zolomon, but as we’ll see, he has a different background than his comic book counterpart.

Also, Double Down from this era just appeared on Arrow), partially because they’re damn good comics, but also because Johns is an executive producer on The Flash. That’s a period in the character’s history that has been pretty influential on the TV show (remember Peek-a-Boo? Yeah, sorry. According to the comics, Zoom is actually Hunter Zolomon who first appeared during Geoff Johns’ tenure as writer on The Flash in the early 2000s.

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