I thought this was another great issue of this mini-series. The part of the story with the Reverse-Flash is wrapped up kind of quickly, but . . we also get a whole lot of information that'll lead us into the future of this character. As far as the Reverse-Flash goes . . Barry is chasing him down as he's headed to kill Iris before they even met. Well, I'm sorry. They had met. But they hadn't gone out on a date yet. Anyways, Barry has to catch him but he doesn't know if he'll be able to. He's been going non-stop pretty much ever since his return, so . . he doesn't know if he has it in him. But then Wally shows up in the Speed Force to lend him a little of his energy. They chase Thawne down, and then put him into a containment chamber that Barry's had the rest of the Flash-family, and his JLA friends building. Basically they have to cut him off from his negative Speed Force. Iris is saved, and the only thing she has to even suspect that something may have happened is the staff that the Reverse Flash was going to use to kill her. After Barry and Wally leave, the staff falls to the sidewalk next to her. I do have one question though. They restrain Thawne, because if he runs he'll become reconnected to his negative Speed Force, but . . what's to stop the guy from vibrating out of his restraints? I guess we'll just have to take it on faith that they've got him subdued well enough. Anyways, they put him in Iron Heights,
there's a Flash parade, and everything is back to normal. But as fast as the Flash is . . things seem to happen around him even faster. For some reason, Thawne is put into a cell pretty close to Hunter Zolomon, Zoom. So Hunter begins talking. I don't think that was a good idea. Also, Dr Alchemy has escaped. The Rogues are planning a come-back. Captain Cold is planning on using a contingency plan, Break Glass, that Scudder came up with just in case the Flash returned. In Gorilla City, the apes are chanting in front of a depiction of the Reverse Flash. They're upset about something . . 'I fear it is worse than we imagined. He's done something to our jungles. Something unnatural.' We see what I assume is Abra Kadabra's hands playing with some Reverse-Flash puppets. 'You wanted to keep me out of this professor . . you should have made sure I was dead. I have much more up my sleeve than you can imagine.' Meanwhile Barry has gotten back to work, and trying to get his life back to normal. At the precinct he closes the case on his mother's death. It doesn't have to plague him anymore. But in the process he finds lots of other boxes. Apparently they're the unsolved cases that have happened since he left. He tells his Captain, 'Consider them mine.' And at home he's decided that he's going to slow down and enjoy his time with Iris. He'd been going nonstop since his return because he didn't want to miss anything. But in doing so he hadn't slowed down
enough to see what was really important . . his life, and Iris in it. And . . he catches back up with his friends, the JLA. All in all I thought it was a good series. I didn't necessarily like the way that things were wrapped up with the Reverse-Flash this issue, but . . it is what it is . . it's done, and it's time to move on. I thought Geoff Johns did a great job of reintroducing Barry into the 21st century. And I always enjoy Ethan Van Sciver's work. It should be a seamless transition into the new series, as Geoff will also be writing it. At least for a little while. It's due out right around tax-day, and Francis Manapul will be doing the art. I included the picture of issue #1, just so you know what to expect. I assume we'll see all the other Flash characters here . . Wally, Bart, Max, Jay . . since there's only 1 series listed. But maybe . . maybe we'll get a spin-off in a little while. It wouldn't be hard. There's a lot of great characters in Barry's world. And now . . we can look towards the future.
I thought this was another great issue of this mini-series. The part of the story with the Reverse-Flash is wrapped up kind of quickly, but . . we also get a whole lot of information that'll lead us into the future of this character. As far as the Reverse-Flash goes . . Barry is chasing him down as he's headed to kill Iris before they even met. Well, I'm sorry. They had met. But they hadn't gone out on a date yet. Anyways, Barry has to catch him but he doesn't know if he'll be able to. He's been going non-stop pretty much ever since his return, so . . he doesn't know if he has it in him. But then Wally shows up in the Speed Force to lend him a little of his energy. They chase Thawne down, and then put him into a containment chamber that Barry's had the rest of the Flash-family, and his JLA friends building. Basically they have to cut him off from his negative Speed Force. Iris is saved, and the only thing she has to even suspect that something may have happened is the staff that the Reverse Flash was going to use to kill her. After Barry and Wally leave, the staff falls to the sidewalk next to her. I do have one question though. They restrain Thawne, because if he runs he'll become reconnected to his negative Speed Force, but . . what's to stop the guy from vibrating out of his restraints? I guess we'll just have to take it on faith that they've got him subdued well enough. Anyways, they put him in Iron Heights,
there's a Flash parade, and everything is back to normal. But as fast as the Flash is . . things seem to happen around him even faster. For some reason, Thawne is put into a cell pretty close to Hunter Zolomon, Zoom. So Hunter begins talking. I don't think that was a good idea. Also, Dr Alchemy has escaped. The Rogues are planning a come-back. Captain Cold is planning on using a contingency plan, Break Glass, that Scudder came up with just in case the Flash returned. In Gorilla City, the apes are chanting in front of a depiction of the Reverse Flash. They're upset about something . . 'I fear it is worse than we imagined. He's done something to our jungles. Something unnatural.' We see what I assume is Abra Kadabra's hands playing with some Reverse-Flash puppets. 'You wanted to keep me out of this professor . . you should have made sure I was dead. I have much more up my sleeve than you can imagine.' Meanwhile Barry has gotten back to work, and trying to get his life back to normal. At the precinct he closes the case on his mother's death. It doesn't have to plague him anymore. But in the process he finds lots of other boxes. Apparently they're the unsolved cases that have happened since he left. He tells his Captain, 'Consider them mine.' And at home he's decided that he's going to slow down and enjoy his time with Iris. He'd been going nonstop since his return because he didn't want to miss anything. But in doing so he hadn't slowed down
enough to see what was really important . . his life, and Iris in it. And . . he catches back up with his friends, the JLA. All in all I thought it was a good series. I didn't necessarily like the way that things were wrapped up with the Reverse-Flash this issue, but . . it is what it is . . it's done, and it's time to move on. I thought Geoff Johns did a great job of reintroducing Barry into the 21st century. And I always enjoy Ethan Van Sciver's work. It should be a seamless transition into the new series, as Geoff will also be writing it. At least for a little while. It's due out right around tax-day, and Francis Manapul will be doing the art. I included the picture of issue #1, just so you know what to expect. I assume we'll see all the other Flash characters here . . Wally, Bart, Max, Jay . . since there's only 1 series listed. But maybe . . maybe we'll get a spin-off in a little while. It wouldn't be hard. There's a lot of great characters in Barry's world. And now . . we can look towards the future.
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