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A review by devinr
The Flash: Emergency Stop by Paul Ryan, Grant Morrison, John Nyberg, Mark Millar
3.0
I don't exactly love The Flash, but I like the character's supporting cast (Jay Garrick the Golden Age Flash, Max Mercury, Impulse), and I like Grant Morrison (less so Mark Millar), so I decided to give this collection a shot. And overall, it's not bad: a little dated superhero work but generally full of enough great ideas and fun to pull you along.
Most of the cool moments in here, mostly in the first two high-concept stories (a villainous suit who swears revenge on The Flash, The Mirror Master's mind-bending setup), which were both both very cool, and definitely great fun to read. I particularly liked the one stand-alone story that gave Jay Garrick a chance to shine; seeing what he does with his "retirement" makes me appreciate him even more. There was one issue that was the last chapter in a three-part story with Green Arrow & Green Lantern, set in a courtroom, that fell really flat for me. I could have done without that issue (or maybe it would have read better if they had collected the Green Lantern and Green Arrow stories that preceded it), but that's a minor nitpick. Overall this collection didn't finally make me fall in love with The Flash, but it's certainly full of some good superhero stories, and I will probably re-read this volume - or at least most of it - in the future.
First Read: July 8 2010.
Most of the cool moments in here, mostly in the first two high-concept stories (a villainous suit who swears revenge on The Flash, The Mirror Master's mind-bending setup), which were both both very cool, and definitely great fun to read. I particularly liked the one stand-alone story that gave Jay Garrick a chance to shine; seeing what he does with his "retirement" makes me appreciate him even more. There was one issue that was the last chapter in a three-part story with Green Arrow & Green Lantern, set in a courtroom, that fell really flat for me. I could have done without that issue (or maybe it would have read better if they had collected the Green Lantern and Green Arrow stories that preceded it), but that's a minor nitpick. Overall this collection didn't finally make me fall in love with The Flash, but it's certainly full of some good superhero stories, and I will probably re-read this volume - or at least most of it - in the future.
First Read: July 8 2010.