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The Flash Vol. 10: Force Quest TPB review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 20, 20220Comments

The Flash Vol. 10: Force Quest TPB by Joshua Williamson (Author), Rafa Sandoval (Illustrator) Force Quest is the one volume of Williamson's run that although expands on the Flash mythos was shoehorned in to create more antagonists for the Flash; which is reasonable, I guess. The problem is that the concept of the four forces that aid the…

The Flash Vol. 9: Reckoning of the Forces review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 15, 20220Comments

The Flash Vol. 9: Reckoning of the Forces TPB By Writer Joshua Williamson (Justice League vs. Suicide Squad) and artists Christian Duce (Detective Comics) and Scott Kolins (Blue Beetle) Collecting The Flash (2016) issues #52-57. The Flash has always been about moving forward; that means coping with grief, coping with change - being in situations we feel…

The Flash Vol. 8: Flash War review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 13, 20220Comments

The Flash Vol. 8: Flash War TPB by Joshua Williamson (Author), Howard Porter (Illustrator), Scott Kolins (Illustrator) Geoff Johns understands the Flash; Joshua Williamson understands the people beneath the costume. In this volume of his run, Williamson highlights this by taking the tail end of Johns' run right before Flashpoint and building upon it while continuing the threads…

The Flash Vol. 5: Negative review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 2, 20220Comments

The Flash Vol. 5: Negative (Rebirth) TPB by Joshua Williamson (Author), Neil Googe (Illustrator), Christian Duce (Illustrator) The storyline that debuted the series villain of one of the most recent seasons, this is one of the few things the series did much better, I believe. While this storyline does develop who Barry Allen is, his faults in…

Batman/The Flash: The Button review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMay 24, 20220Comments

Batman/The Flash: The Button Deluxe Edition Hardcover by Tom King (Author), Joshua Williamson (Author), Jason Fabok (Illustrator), Howard Porter (Illustrator) The next chapter in Joshua Williamson's run on the Flash continues! And this time, a crossover with the Batman title for something truly special. An unsolvable, ultra-high concept murder mystery between the speedy CSI and the Dark…

The Flash Vol 3 Rogues Reloaded review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMay 23, 20220Comments

A hero is as good as their villains. This is very true of the Flash, the villains around whom I find criminally underrated, and none more so than Captain Cold and his Rogues. Joshua Williamson proves very much in touch with who these people are, how their brokenness pulling them together in such a way that they…

The Flash : Vol 1 Lightning Strikes Twice review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMay 17, 20220Comments

The great rebirth-era Flash reread starts here! And it starts off pretty well in spite of treading ground that is a little too familiar, with the trope of the (not-do) secret identity speedster villain front and center. While the New 52 volume ended on a low-key but ironically high note and this does offer a continuation…

Dark Nights Metal review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMay 9, 20220Comments

Scott Snyder is an acquired taste. He seeks to write as in a sub-textually meaningful way as Geoff Johns and Alan Moore with the cosmic scale of Grant Morrison, but more often than not just about missing the mark in being a little too ambitious and overt with his plans. Dark Nights: Metal is one such…

The Flash: Savage Velocity – review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJanuary 8, 20220Comments

It is very important, I find, that one maintains a critical distance between what they like and themselves in order to accept that their object of content is not infallible. With this frame of mind, I read through Mike Baron, Jackson Guice and William Moesssner-Loebs' Savage Velocity. Hot off the heels of Barry Allen's death in…

Mark Waid’s Flash review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 19, 20200Comments

Anxiety is a killer. As someone who is regularly on the receiving end of such an overwhelming truck of an emotion, it is somewhat cathartic to actually read about it on page as written by someone who clearly understands how you feel. It resonates with you, and somehow makes you identify with it on a…

The Flash : Rogues War review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 19, 20200Comments

I am cheating here because I was due a Marvel one today. But I watched the supposed finale to the current season of the Flash and...I think I'm finally done with that series. I want to vindicate it. I read the Flash since I was young. The first comic I picked up of the character…

Heroes In Crisis (Limited Series) – Review by Raphael Borg

ComicsJune 18, 20190Comments

Heroes In Crisis Publisher: DC Comics No. of issues: 9 issue limited series Writer: Tom King Penciller(s): Clay Mann; Mitch Gerads Review: Raphael Borg I must admit that I started out reading through the first few issues of Tom King’s Heroes in Crisis with a very sour taste in my mouth since the…