the Flash #236 - DC

Well, this issue wraps up the water alien story-line. Finally! To me, it was a bit predictable. Especially after reading the back-up story. This issue, in the back-up, we finally get to Wally and Linda's arrival to Savoth. It was either that, or Wally disappearing entirely in to the Speed Force. We also find out why, and how, Linda needed their technology for the kids, and how she talked them in to giving it up to her. But, in the first chapter of this story, when Jay first came there, he had helped them to rid themselves of an alien threat. It turns out, as I suspected, that by doing so with the Speed Force it accelerated their metabolisms and the evolved much faster than normal in to the race of aliens that is now attacking Keystone City. After reading the first installment of that story, I kind of suspected that's what was going on. Anyways, this issue, the family performs as a team. Iris and Jai help their dad out be going to the aliens world and distracting the JLA enough so that they can save them . . . from themselves. The water they were breathing was causing them to hallucinate the attack that they thought they were fighting. So he needed the kids to distract them. Meanwhile Linda, who has such a good knowledge of the alien tech, and how it's related to that of Savoth's, gives Wally the idea about how to take them down. Then, when he finds out they were actually tuning in to his key to Savoth . . and it's connection to the Speed Force . . . it's all over, because Wally simply has to give his goodbye's to Gorflack, and break the connection. Basically, what we've learned this issue, is that Wally no longer operates solo. He has a team . . or family . . that backs him up now. And he couldn't be happier. Now that we've got all that wrapped up . . and we know what's been going on for the last year or so . . we can progress in to the future. And it appears that's what he's going to be doing next issue . . with the help of Superman. Mark Waid wrote it, and Freddie E Williams II did the art.