The Flash 1: Strange Attractor Paperback – by Simon Spurrier (Author), Jarrett Williams (Author), Alex Paknadel (Author), A. L. Kaplan (Author), Jr. Deodato, Mike (Illustrator)
What an opening…and something I did NOT expect.
It is indeed a rare thing that when a writer takes over from another that they follow through on the direction the previous was heading.
It is even rarer when this is done so well.
First off: of all artists, I did not expect to enjoy Mike Deodato’s art on the Flash, of all titles, as much as I did. While his previous work did provide a certain dynamism (and bodily contortions and proportions I never thought possible), Deodato’s attention to detail provides a certain stillness that usually does not fit well with the Flash.
But this is exactly what the comic is about. Stillness.
Following the absolute shattering of the speed force and its hasty reconstruction in the previous arc, the Speed force is acting erratically, and is being exploited by the likes of Grodd and Mirror Master to do…well, read the book…and attracting the attention of…read the book.
Yes, it is that good. And honestly on a level I didn’t think possible from Simon Spurrier, who I last read his run on Danny Ketch:Ghost Rider which, while I liked, was nothing as simultaneously introspective yet envious of anything Grant Morrison would create.
Yes, this is exactly that! A fever dream between high action comics and something sneezed out of a book by Levinas and Lyotard with a dash of Albert Memmi and Frans Fanon.
Read it and be surprised.
