Category: Flash
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Unfortunately, this issue does not feature the Flash fighting a giant finger. Instead, he fights some evil triplets and then Captain Cold (in different stories). The first story–written by Robert Kanigher–is better. Barry has to figure different things out in order to defeat the bad guys and Kanigher does show some of Barry’s character. There’s…
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It’s hard to say who’s more enthusiastic about The Flash–Robert Kanigher or John Broome. Kanigher does the origin, Broome does the second adventure. Broome tackles time travel… Kanigher has Flash in a speedboat. I guess Broome wins. Both have Carmine Infantino (inked by Joe Kubert) on art. Infantino doesn’t quite know how to tell a…
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No one misses Iris? She sort of spends the issue kidnapped. Manapul and Buccellato can’t seem to plot the issue. It opens with a huge action set piece–the Flash saving a planeload of people–but it’s boring. Manapul can do all the double page spreads he wants, it’s still just a drawing of an airplane. Visual…
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You’ve got to love a cliffhanger where the lead-up is so visually incomprehensible, it’s unclear what’s happening. I think the bad guys teleported a plane to crash into a bridge. Not sure why a plane crashing into a bridge is the most effective use of energy, but maybe Manapul saw it in a movie and…
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Why did DC hire Francis Manapul to write The Flash? I understand he’s a popular artist—even though his mix of sketchy backgrounds and slick foregrounds, to the degree it adds a false sense of focus, isn’t exactly mainstream—but did they need to keep him so much they gave him the writing chores? Oddly, the writing…
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I never read The Flash after they added all that “Speed Force” nonsense. Seems to me it overcomplicates a guy who runs really fast. Augustyn brings it up a little–in addition to giving Wally a nice, contrived case of amnesia. As it turns out, that amnesia has no real effect on the story. It’s not…
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This Retroactive teams up an actual pair of eighties Flash creators instead of just pretending. I’ve heard good things about William Messner-Loebs’s run on the title and, if this issue is any indication, it’s definitely worth a look. He deftly combines danger and humor—it’s not a stretch to believe Wally West is going to team…
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This Flash issue shows exactly what’s wrong with the whole DC Retroactive line… They aren’t actually trying to make good comics. Now, I didn’t read a lot of Cary Bates Flash comics but I read enough to know Carmine Infantino drew them. So, to do a nice retro of them, DC should have hired someone…
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