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nathaniel_1206's review
3.0
I mostly read this because I'm enjoying the TV show a lot, and never read them as a kid. (Flash was great in Justice League of America and what not, but the DC Trinity -Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman -was more my jam as kid.) Anyway, turns out this isn't a terrible place to start as a debriefing. As a story it's about twenty pages too long. However it is issue #300, so fifty pages for a dollar? That's a deal any comic book buyer would take nowadays.
As a debrief, you get a backstory on pretty much all the sad-sack villains the Flash had at this time. Look one guys had tops. The childrens toy? The things that spin around, and really nothing else? That. It's a great toy if you're an infant, cause the spinning. The guy with tops was a villain. He was menacing the Flash with tops. Yup. Sure.
Anyway, Vandal Savage, Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd and Reverse Flash are mentioned too.
So the story of this comic is essentially a 50 page mind game by one of Flash's villains (doesn't really matter who) to convince him he never was the Flash, the Flash doesn't exist. His love of the comics as a little kid, drove this belief, and he's been in mental institutions for a long long time cause he won't let it go.
The unfortunate part is I should have done research into my starting point. (I just randomly picked #300) Iris West has been "dead" for twenty five issues.
I'm going not going to comment on the art. I was reading a particularly ragged paper copy (pages came away from their staples very easily). Carmine Infantino is a deserved legend in comics, and his legend was made in part on Flash. From what I could tell, he did great work, but I had a trashed copy. Food stains (God I hope that was a food stain). Ripped pages. Yellowed pages. You get the idea.
As a debrief, you get a backstory on pretty much all the sad-sack villains the Flash had at this time. Look one guys had tops. The childrens toy? The things that spin around, and really nothing else? That. It's a great toy if you're an infant, cause the spinning. The guy with tops was a villain. He was menacing the Flash with tops. Yup. Sure.
Anyway, Vandal Savage, Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd and Reverse Flash are mentioned too.
So the story of this comic is essentially a 50 page mind game by one of Flash's villains (doesn't really matter who) to convince him he never was the Flash, the Flash doesn't exist. His love of the comics as a little kid, drove this belief, and he's been in mental institutions for a long long time cause he won't let it go.
The unfortunate part is I should have done research into my starting point. (I just randomly picked #300) Iris West has been "dead" for twenty five issues.
I'm going not going to comment on the art. I was reading a particularly ragged paper copy (pages came away from their staples very easily). Carmine Infantino is a deserved legend in comics, and his legend was made in part on Flash. From what I could tell, he did great work, but I had a trashed copy. Food stains (God I hope that was a food stain). Ripped pages. Yellowed pages. You get the idea.
contrabanddonut's review
3.0
I mostly read this because I'm enjoying the TV show a lot, and never read them as a kid. (Flash was great in Justice League of America and what not, but the DC Trinity -Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman -was more my jam as kid.) Anyway, turns out this isn't a terrible place to start as a debriefing. As a story it's about twenty pages too long. However it is issue #300, so fifty pages for a dollar? That's a deal any comic book buyer would take nowadays.
As a debrief, you get a backstory on pretty much all the sad-sack villains the Flash had at this time. Look one guys had tops. The childrens toy? The things that spin around, and really nothing else? That. It's a great toy if you're an infant, cause the spinning. The guy with tops was a villain. He was menacing the Flash with tops. Yup. Sure.
Anyway, Vandal Savage, Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd and Reverse Flash are mentioned too.
So the story of this comic is essentially a 50 page mind game by one of Flash's villains (doesn't really matter who) to convince him he never was the Flash, the Flash doesn't exist. His love of the comics as a little kid, drove this belief, and he's been in mental institutions for a long long time cause he won't let it go.
The unfortunate part is I should have done research into my starting point. (I just randomly picked #300) Iris West has been "dead" for twenty five issues.
I'm going not going to comment on the art. I was reading a particularly ragged paper copy (pages came away from their staples very easily). Carmine Infantino is a deserved legend in comics, and his legend was made in part on Flash. From what I could tell, he did great work, but I had a trashed copy. Food stains (God I hope that was a food stain). Ripped pages. Yellowed pages. You get the idea.
As a debrief, you get a backstory on pretty much all the sad-sack villains the Flash had at this time. Look one guys had tops. The childrens toy? The things that spin around, and really nothing else? That. It's a great toy if you're an infant, cause the spinning. The guy with tops was a villain. He was menacing the Flash with tops. Yup. Sure.
Anyway, Vandal Savage, Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd and Reverse Flash are mentioned too.
So the story of this comic is essentially a 50 page mind game by one of Flash's villains (doesn't really matter who) to convince him he never was the Flash, the Flash doesn't exist. His love of the comics as a little kid, drove this belief, and he's been in mental institutions for a long long time cause he won't let it go.
The unfortunate part is I should have done research into my starting point. (I just randomly picked #300) Iris West has been "dead" for twenty five issues.
I'm going not going to comment on the art. I was reading a particularly ragged paper copy (pages came away from their staples very easily). Carmine Infantino is a deserved legend in comics, and his legend was made in part on Flash. From what I could tell, he did great work, but I had a trashed copy. Food stains (God I hope that was a food stain). Ripped pages. Yellowed pages. You get the idea.
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