Flash: Rebirth #1 & #2

If you don't want to be spoiled about this stuff, scroll past this entry with alacrity.

I've been complaining a little bit about Flash: Rebirth, I'll admit. Not getting why Barry would come back at all, a few other things I'll get to in a sec. Yesterday, the second issue came out... and is forcing me to re-think exactly how I feel about what's going on.

But first, #1 and why I was like, the only person not thinking this was awesome.

( And it wasn't any fun at all. )

So, now we come to the issue that came out yesterday.



Let me pause here to say I am a huge fan of this art. That bit I never had second thoughts about, at all. The painting on the first page of this issue and how it's pops up, changing, in bits and pieces, throughout is really neat, although I do have to wonder what the gorillas have to do with this. They have become more spiritual recently... maybe they've forgiven the Flashes for being bloodthirsty like all other humans due to some sort of insights on wtf is going on? Anyway. The expressions in the art, the looks in people's eyes, the significance given to small gestures or body language, the details, all that, have made me a fan of this guy for a while.

It comes out a lot near the end of #2, where I'm picking up again...

( We're still faster. )

Regardless, I still don't know quite how I feel about all this.

I need a cigarette.

The Black Flash

So I went looking for the post I made of this a long time ago, only to find I'd made it at scans_daily, not here, so it's been bahleeted. One person in particular wanted to know who this creepy bastard is, so, here's his first in-person appearance in continuity; previously, there were a few indicators of something weird being up with speedster deaths, and in The Flash #138, he appeared in a photo of Wally, then another in the next issue, freaking out Max and Jay...



But honestly, I think this thing could freak anybody out.

Especially if it was chasing you.

These are all from #140 & #141; Linda has just died. Superman makes a speech at her funeral and everything. Linda's mom slaps Wally in the face then screams at him for it all being his fault. Wally turns into a powerless wreck. He grows facial hair and decides to leave for Europe and be depressed away from everyone. It doesn't work out like that.

( One by one, death caught up with the fastest men alive. )

And that's how Wally told death itself to bugger off.