Product Description

Transformed by a lab accident and linked to the mysterious 'speed force', Wally West is the Flash - the fastest man alive! For the first time DC collects the fast-paced 1990s epic "The Flash Number 130-135"! After a run-in with the mysterious villain Suit, Flash is confined to a wheelchair with broken legs. So while the real Flash is laid up, his stand-in Jay Garrick, Max Mercury, and Impulse tackle the Suit. Will it be enough to protect Keystone City? With stories by acclaimed writer Grant Morrison ("Final Crisis", "The Invisibles") and Mark Millar ("Wanted", "The Authority") this is a rip-roaring tale that literally flies off the page, and is all-round family fun!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #279319 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Grant Morrison is one of comics' greatest innovators. His long list of credits includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, JLA, Seven Soldiers, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles and The Fifth. He is currently writing Batman and All-Star Superman. Mark Millar is one of comics' most commercially successful writers, whose work includes Wanted, Judge Dredd, Superman Adventures, JLA, Ultimate X-Men, Superman: Red Son, The Authority and the bestselling The Ultimates.

Customer Reviews

Good ol' superheroics by a "traditional" artist and "weird slant" writers
This book collects the first half of a "year off" that Waid took. His replacements were Grant Morrison and Mark Millar. Both writers, but Morrison in particular, comes with that "edgy" reputation that came from his work on Doom Patrol and the Invisibles. My memory is poor, I think this Flash run took place during Morrison's acclaimed work on JLA which clearly showed he can do "normal" superheroics, but that Morrison-y taste never quite goes away.

Morrison and Millar more than deliver the goods, with some multi-part stories and some excellent one-issue tales.

The artist is Paul Ryan. I don't really have a handle on how Ryan's work is regarded by comic fandom. I can imagine he might be considered "old-fashioned". I'd much rather think of him as a very good story teller with a sharp and clean and clear style. Making things look simple (or easy) doesn't mean the work is simple. I love his work. I see him as a modern-day Curt Swan. And that's intended as a complement. I have enjoyed his work everywhere I've seen it (i.e. his long run on the Fantastic Four with Tom DeFalco, a run on Superman) and his name on a comic (an all-too rare event these days) means I will buy it. The follow on volume to this book (the Human Race, completing Morrison and Millar's run) has art by Pop Mian as well as Ryan, who -- I dunno -- may well be a fan favourite .. no offense to the artist, but it is the opposite of Ryan's work, and -- to my taste -- is awful.

So basically if you like good ol' fashioned super-heroics with clean clear art and storytelling, with tales having a slightly odd slant with ideas being thrown away left, right and centre (I *love* the Golden Age Reverse Flash!), don't miss this book!