Another fantastic chapter in this incredible series by Geoff Johns. I knew this book was going to be good, but by the time I got done reading it . . all I could think was . . WOW!! The Rogues are after Inertia. After all, he's the one that got them into this whole mess in the first place. Really, all they want to do is hang up their masks and shoes and take a break . . try to live a normal life. But, now that Inertia is back in the mix . . they've got some unfinished business that they need to wrap up. The problem is, Zoom has gotten to the kid before the Rogue's could. Also, the Pied Piper comes back into the mix this issue. There's a lot of stuff that comes to a head though this issue. Zoom, in his attempt to teach Inertia, has turned him into the new Kid Flash . . and forces him to go along with his plans. But if nothing else, this kid has moxy. Libra also shows up this issue, and he's trying to get the Rogue's to join in with his Secret Society. But they still aren't buying it . . . even if he did kidnap the Weather Wizard's son to try to up the ante. This distraction, however helps Inertia loosen Zoom's hold on him. First he gets bored with all of Libra's demands and posturing so he takes him out of the mix with a sonic-boom. In the process he also kills Weather Wizard's baby. Then he changes his costume and name. He's now Kid Zoom. And then he takes Zoom out of the equation by stealing Zooms power out from underneath him. "I'm pushing you backwards, Zoom. I'm stealing your time. You're back to being crippled." But then the Rogue's gather up their balls and take Kid Zoom out, much in the same manner that they did Bart. "We started this together, Cold, let's end this together. This isn't for my son. This isn't for Kid Flash. No. This is for one %%@#$@-up year." They leave his body at the doorstep of the Police Station with a message, "Tell the Flash we're even! - the Rogues!" They do however get one thing out of their conversation with Libra, and that's that they may have to deal with their true nemesis soon . . Barry Allen. "I don't like to run Trickster. And it wouldn't matter where we ran to if the Flash is back. Libra's right, we had unfinished business he's want to get on. The Rogue's can't outrun him. So once the skies are back to blue, the game's back on. And if the Flash is really back . . . there's no more rules in this universe to follow." This is going to set us up for a very interesting year in the Flash book next year. This was a fantastic chapter of the Final Crisis series. I love the way it ended and I can't wait to see what happens next year.
I loved this mini-series as well, but was kind of bummed that Geoff pulled the plug on the Kid Zoom idea. Inertia as Kid Zoom would have worked on many levels, and left him as a threat to Flash, whoever that ends up being, and the Teen Titans as well, who undoubtedly wouldn't have appreciated Bart Allen's murderer still running wild.
ReplyDeleteI was also sad to see Zoom turned back into his pre-Zoom self, but I guess DC wanted Zoom out of the way since they seem to have big plans for Barry Allen, and Zoom doesn't have any real connection to Barry.
Other then that I agree that this series was awesome, and Geoff really added a lot of personality to the Rogues, showing they were much more then just petty theives and criminals, and showing that no matter how warped it may be, they do have their own honor system.
But don't forget . . Inertia / Kid Zoom . . whatever? . . he's still Bart's clone and he's from the distant future. As is the original Zoom. So . . . we could quite possibly see either one of them at any time. They would just have to be a younger version than the one that just got taken care of. Which would also mean that one would have to be successful, or survive, in order for this one's actions to have taken place. That's why time travel stories give me a head-ache. Just like Barry Allen lived in the future for a while. So . . . oh it'll just give me a headache to try to figure that one out. Suffice it to say . . I love the Flash series a) because of the great characters and b) because of all the wonderful possibilities. It's only limited by the writers imagination.
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