the Flash #245 - DC

Wally really seems to be at a pivotal point in his life. In recent issues, he's save his wife and kids from various threats and life-ending ailments. But, was the cost to his person higher than he anticipated? He seems to be experiencing a 5% loss in power recently, which means that he can only travel at about the speed of sound . . around 700 miles per hour. Anything more than that and his body wouldn't be able to tolerate the stress heaped upon it. Anyways, with everything that Wally is dealing with this issue, he's also got Queen Bee gunning after him. Remember, they had an encounter back in JLA #20. I said in that blog that I wondered why the story wasn't told in a Flash book, because the story dealt more with the Flash and Queen Bee than with the rest of the Justice League. Yes Wonder Woman was present, but still. So this issue her drones make an attack on Linda. Wally saves her, but . . I'm wondering what they were really after. She seems to have some kind of time-travel device, that she attempting to operate, but . . they're having a hard time getting it to work right. "The device channels into a time warp. The humans who created it had no idea what they had tapped into. Not only is the device capable of increasing speed energy . . it can remove it, too . . . bringing time to a standstill, as you desired." But, they haven't got it to work properly, or to be able to target it properly. I'm thinking it has something to do with the speed-force because the next issue credit reads, "Queen Bee and Carapace make their move on their link to the Speed Force . . . Iris!" Overall I enjoyed the book. I just hate to think that Linda, or Iris & Jai will have to suffer because of their husband, and father's, occupation. This is a good place for new reader to start this book, because a lot of the focus this issue was on Wally's remembrances of the past . . Barry, the Teen Titans, the Justice League, etc.. We get a lot of information this issue. I think Alan Burnett is finally becoming more comfortable with this series and these characters. He seems to be settling in quite nicely. Carlo Barberi does the art this issue. He's the artist from the Casey Blue series, and I have to say I thought he felt really comfortable on this book. So far I like the new direction. Let's just see where it goes.