ComicBook.com Announces The Flash: Throwback Recaps With John Wesley Shipp

ComicBook.com is pleased to announce a new, weekly feature: Throwback Recaps of the 1990s The Flash series, with additional commentary by lead actor John Wesley Shipp.

Since TV recaps are some of our most popular posts in any given week during the season, we've sometimes wondered whether there was something we could do to stoke that kind of conversation and drive that kind of reader interest when the shows aren't on the air. In the case of The Flash, the answer seemed obvious: there's a full season of TV that does not typically get recapped...becuase it aired before the Internet was widely available.

Of course, there are countless wikis where you can get information on the plot of old The Flash TV shows, so what do we bring to the table that's fresh? Well, once a month we're going to sit down with series star John Wesley Shipp (who plays Henry Allen, the father of The Flash, on The CW's current The Flash series) to discuss the show...and, as much as we can, the specific episodes.

"When the subject of playing a superhero came up, I was extremely leery," Shipp told us during an interview last week discussing how the show got off the ground, the feature-length pilot and the first three episodes of the series. "Because the only idea I had in my mind, since we sort of reinvented how to tell comic book stories for television, everything up to that point that I knew about was very campy and sort of comedic, which is now cool again. In other words, retrospective back to the Batman series of the '60s now is cool again. In 1990, it wasn't. It was not where I saw my career going. I had delusions of being a serious actor and I could not imagine running around in a pair of red tights."

If you've got questions or comments for Mr. Shipp that you'd like us to try and address, feel free to tweet them at me via @russburlingame or sign up for a ComicBook.com forum account and send them my way via private message. We want to try and involve readers and fans of the show as much as we can within the confines of actually having our own conversation as well.

You can check out the first part of the interview tonight at 9 p.m. ET, when The Flash recaps would ordinarily run if the episode was on the air.