I won't go into too much detail on the goods and bads of this issue, suffice it to say that the production values are damn excellent. The art is engaging and beautiful, the characters are well rounded and exciting and the plot is...
Well, stop me if you've heard this one: A greatly venerated silver age hero, many years gone and long since succeeded by a younger analogue, is manipulated into becoming a vessel for a great evil born of an extra-dimensional energy source. Said manipulation causes this hero to return to life, rallying the entire pantheon of DC heroes around them (along with the three variant versions of said hero) leading to the exciting reveal on the last page of issue three that the mastermind behind this entire scenario is none other than the titular hero's long-dead, yellow themed evil opposite.
Now don't tell me, I'll get it...
The only reason this isn't my POW.
But, ah... kind of a big reason. For me, anyway.
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
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I totally get that you don't like Johns repeating himself here. But if you listen to or read interviews of him, he's definitely doing it on purpose. He's been drawing parallels between these two silver age icons all along, like how Hal died a sinner and Barry died a saint, Hal's domain is space and Barry's is time, etc. If Geoff's run on GL thus far is any indication, we're in for an awesome ride with Flash for years to come, and that excites me.
Posted by superchuck on 06/11/09 at 05:20 PM