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 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 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 (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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…