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Review: Blackest Night: The Flash #1
Blackest Night: The Flash: #1 shows how to start a Flash miniseries: by hitting the ground running. Literally. While Geoff Johns took a slow burn approach for Flash: Rebirth, this time he starts in media res, with the Flash racing around the world ...
Rebirth 5 Review Round-Up
Let’s check in on the internet and see what people have been saying about the latest issue of Flash: Rebirth. IGN – “Rebirth’s biggest flaw is that it all too often feels more like housekeeping than storytelling….Flash: ...
Review: Flash: Rebirth #5 — “Mother, May I”
Flash: Rebirth is closing in on its conclusion. Mysteries are revealed, heroes battle villains — well, a villain anyway — and change is in the wind for more than one speedster. The sense of urgency that started building in issue #4 is pr...
Review: Brave and the Bold #28 (Blackhawk and the Flash)
Brave and the Bold #28, “Firing Line,” by J. Michael Straczynski and Jesus Saiz occupies an unusual niche for the Flash. While Barry Allen has been back for a year and a half, this marks his first real solo adventure in an ordinary comic...
Rebirth #4: View from the Twitter Gallery
It’s not just bloggers who’ve been reviewing The Flash: Rebirth. People on Twitter have been chiming in with their opinions, 140 characters at a time. Comments have been overwhelmingly positive, though of course not everyone likes what t...
Rebirth #4 Review Round-Up
Flash: Rebirth #4 has been out for a week. You know what that means, right? Yep: It’s time for a review round-up! Here are a bunch of reviews I’ve found around the web: Rokk’s Comic Book Revolution – “Finally! Johns de...
Full Review: Flash: Rebirth #4 — “Flash Facts”
Well, I said I wanted this issue to knock my socks off, and Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver certainly delivered! After three issues of setup, Flash: Rebirth #4 kicks the story into high gear. Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash, stands revealed as...
First Impressions — Flash: Rebirth #4 Quick Review
Yesterday I re-read Flash: Rebirth #1-3 by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver. Today I bought Flash: Rebirth #4 (and even managed to pick up the variant cover) and read it during lunch. Here are my first impressions, with a full review to come later t...
Quick Thoughts: Wednesday Comics #2
6:18:35 PM: Batman’s story is getting more intriguing 6:19:21 PM: Kamandi makes me want to re-read Tellos. 6:20:35 PM: I love the giant splash page on Metamorpho! (And the joke about a subscription to Element Dog!) 6:23:15 PM: That’s an a...
Quick Thoughts: Wednesday Comics #1
It’s huge. The most impressive strips are the ones that actually make use of the larger canvas — Adam Strange, Hawkman, etc. A lot of the creative teams don’t have a good sense of how to tell a story one page at a time. Not many o...
Looking Back at Velocity
This weekend I read the 3-issue Velocity miniseries from 1995, by Kurt Busiek and Anthony Chun. I’m not terribly familiar with the character, having read only the Pilot Season one-shot from 2007. I haven’t read any Cyberforce or anything ...
Reviewing the Unwritten, the Unthinkable, the Unknown
I’d been planning to pick up Mark Waid’s The Unknown since learning about it back in February. The Unwritten sort of snuck up on me, but I read a preview in an issue of either House of Mystery or Madame Xanadu, and decided to check it ou...
Speed Reading — Flash: Rebirth #3 Review Roundup
It’s been a week since Flash: Rebirth #3 arrived in stores. Here’s a round-up of reviews I’ve found online. Weekly Crisis – “I don’t think this book is written for me or other readers like me. It’s clearly b...
