DC Comics reached out with a mission for writer Mark Russell. How would he like to write a reboot of "The Flintstones"? His prompt reply: "I kind of hate 'The Flintstones.' " The DC editors' response: They liked his humorous take for his award-winning comic "Prez," so his distaste for the old animated Hanna-Barbera TV show was not a dealbreaker. "So I knew from the beginning," Russell tells The Washington Post, "that it would be a satiric, edgy response to 'The Flintstones.' " On Wednesday, DC debuted "The Flintstones" No.