


So why then, have we decided that kids won't accept Jay Garrick having a hat with wings on it?

I mean, that's why we're doing this, right? The kids? Because hardcore fans are already used to Jay Garrick having a hat. So this has to be meant to appeal to kids and not, say, thirty-year-old fanboys who are secretly ashamed to like comics and thus demand they be full of black leather and tragedy porn to offset their own intolerance for everything that makes comics as a medium interesting?
By the way...

Five bucks to anyone who can explain why that is reasonable, but Superman having red trunks is silly, without going mad in the style of Abdul Alhazred.