Tuesday, August 7, 2007

All Flash - DC kills one Flash to bring back another

I feel the need to mention first that there were two covers to this special... click here to see how bad the other cover was. The special marks Mark Waid's return to the Flash, and I'm sure a lot of Fanboy's are excited by this. Even though in his 5 years of writing Flash before, he couldn't get the book to be a top seller. In fact not even Superstar Geoff Johns was able to, although it was before he became known as a Superstar. Waid's hot off of 52, which I'm not going to explain what 52 is you can google it, so maybe he'll be able to re-new interest in the Flash. The story was pretty good I must say, wrapping up the crap-tacular ending of Bart Allen's run as the Flash. Bart died by the way. I recently read all 13 issues of the Flash and was actually enjoying it up until they killed him, but as I read All Flash, I couldn't help but wonder if this was really DC's plan all along? I just wonder if they had handled the re-launching of the Flash, or maybe had chosen a new person to be the Flash, if things wouldn't have turned out differently. Frankly I think some one lost their editor's position after messing this one up. We'll see what happens with the next issue of the Flash which returns to the original numbering of the last volume. The future images they showed for the Flash at the end of the special looked stupid by the way, he and his much older kids, are like a superhero family or some crap. If you're not into the Flash, this book won't get you hooked. If you were a fan of Wally West, you'll love his return, and if you weren't you secretly wish that Batman's choice for which Flash to return, had come true. Lastly if you were a fan of Bart Allen, just be glad to know that his death meant nothing and did nothing other than get him out of the way for DC to return to the run of the mill Flash everyone's use to.

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