![]() ![]() His longest story is his de but, in which Flash is reunited with a conflicted old girlfriend and a cult is murdering anyone Flash has ever rescued. Scott Kolins arriving as artist improves matters considerably, and he draws almost all the remaining material here in imaginative and exciting fashion. His layouts are awkward, his characters posed, and his Flash doesn’t have the slim and lithe body shape of someone who runs a lot, but is instead a musclebound clod with a lantern jaw who’s perpetually either grimacing or standing mouth agape. It lacks the tight pacing Johns would later master, and he’s not helped by the art over the earliest material here. The opening story runs over four chapters and sees Flash transferred to an alternate reality where he meets several people whose counterparts in Keystone City will become integral to the series. This is well worth considering with the current high prices and a second edition looking increasingly unlikely. Those having heard about the good stuff and tempted should be warned, though, that it took Johns a while to settle in, and it’s only with the final few chapters here that he finally kicks into gear. This hardcover volume collects the earliest stages o f what would become an era-defining run on The Flash by writer Geoff Johns, combining what was originally published in book form as Wonderland and Blood Will Run, and gathering a couple of other Flash comics Johns wrote and not previously reprinted. ![]()
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