Flash 1

If you're new to Flash comics a few things you should know:There have been basically 3 real Flash's. The first Flash was Jay Garrick, created in 1940. He doesn't wear the red suit, he has a silver hat with wings on it. In 1956 the Flash was re-launched as Barry Allen in the red suit everyone knows. Barry died in 1987's Crisis of Infinite Earths and was replaced by his former side-kick Wally West. For over 30 years Wally has been the Flash. When DC launched the New 52 a few years ago, Wally was nowhere to be seen and they had gone back to Barry as the Flash. Barry is also the name of the character used on the Flash tv show (though many feel a lot of Wally's personality is in that character)The Flash in this book is Wally West. If you are thinking of buying it because you like the show, I wouldn't let that stop you, as almost all they best modern flash stories involve Wally. When it comes to Wally, Mark Waid was responsible for a legendary run with the character (his issues will begin to be collected later this year) Geoff Johns arrived on the scene a few years after Mark left. At the time Johns was just a young up and coming writer, not the power house creator (and president of DC Entertainment) that he is today. While this run isn't held up in quite the same regard as Waid's it is still an excellent run and worth reading if you're interested in the character.I think all the issues in this volume are well written, but I definitely feel Johns improves as he goes along. The first story arc is good, but Johns is clearly both getting used to the characters and beginning to lay groundwork for future stories that really pay off the further in you get in both this volume and volume 2.The art is a bit of a mixed bag. Two artists; Angel Unzueta and Scott Kollins each handle roughly half the book with a third artist, Ethan Van Sciver doing the last story. Kollins' pencils look so out of place compared to the other two artists that it's really jarring at first. But once I started reading I forgot all about it and the art was fine.I also need to acknowledge the wonderful Brian Bolland covers that adorn most of the issues in this volume. Bolland is best known as the artist of Batman: A Killing Joke, an absolutely phenomenal artist who can't turn out pages quickly so mostly winds up drawing covers. I would have loved to see a gallary of the covers at the end of the issue so I could flip through them one after another instead of having to skip 22 pages at a time to get to them. This should be particularly doable since the book publishes each cover before the issue it belonged to, and on the back of the page reprinted the same cover all washed out in red. If they had just pulled out the red versions, they could have added a cover gallery at the back and not used any additional paper.If you're a Flash Fan, or just interested in getting started with the character, this book is a great choice. Recommended.

Excellent product and service!!! *****Thank you!

Novel arrived in great condition to me. Stories are amazing to read about the Flash's escapades.

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Great book. Condition was fine. Geoff Johns is a writer of quality and quantity.

If I had to read "I'm Wally West and I'm the fastest man alive" one more time, I thought I'd scream. It's on every other page.Overall, the stories are good. :)

I really liked this, its my first time reading the flash and i really loved this.

This series has given me a new found love of all things Flash. The Rogues, The Speedster family, even lesser known villians like Brother Grimm, Plunder and Girder! Vol 1 can be a little disjointed which fits the theme of the book, Flash looks to buff in this Vol Imo. (Sorry Ethan but he's the Flash not the Crimson Chin)

Great start to someone who only has knowledge of the flash via tv wally west being the flash and not kid flash was hard to adjust to

Soy un gran seguidor del trabajo de Johns en Dc y creo que su trabajo con Wally West es muy bueno (lo prefiero sobre Waid). Cada personaje secundario brilla, en especial los Rogues (que pienso Johns los entiende perfectamente). Recomiendo comprar todos los volúmenes de Flash con Geoff Johns para una mejor experiencia.

Wallys Abenteuer in diesem Band haben zwar immer eine sehr menschliche Seite, sind aber trotzdem irgendwie nicht spannend genug. Nur etwas für geduldige Leser.

Geoff Johns toma un título con una dura misión, dar continuidad a lo que Mark Waid construyó durante años, y al menos en este primer volumen sus historias se mantienen en un excelente nivel.