by Tom Batiuk | Sep 12, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
Behind probably one of the worst covers of the entire run of the Silver Age Flash lies one of my favorite issues of the closing stretch. I’ve written before about how Cary Bates treated the canon he took on with the utmost care and consideration and as a calling, not...
by Tom Batiuk | Sep 5, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
We pick up right where the previous issue left off at the start of the trial of the Flash with the prosecutor announcing that he was dropping the manslaughter charges. The Flash is elated until the prosecutor continues by stating that he’s instead charging the Flash...
by Tom Batiuk | Aug 29, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
Behind one of the better recent covers, the story continues as the Rogues go on a crime rampage in Central City following Big Sir absconding with the Flash and whisking him off to to a cave in some strange mountainous area (I’ll say it again, I had no idea Central...
by Tom Batiuk | Aug 22, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
The issue opens with the A plot showing the Rogues about to send the childlike Dufus P. Ratchet, now known as Big Sir and armed with futuristic armor and weapons courtesy of the mysterious Monitor, on the trail of the Flash by convincing him that the Flash not...
by Tom Batiuk | Aug 15, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
The issue opens with the Flash entwined by the Pied Piper’s speed demons that he had conjured from another dimension. As they drive the Flash towards some power lines. The Flash manages to avoid his doom by going into a tornado-like spin that sends the speed demons...
