by Tom Batiuk | May 30, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
The issue opens with the mayor of Central City recanting during a press conference his previous criticism of the Flash because he’d been duped by the Pied Piper. The Piper watches this on tv and vows revenge on the Flash saying that he, the Piper, is out for blood. ...
by Tom Batiuk | May 16, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
Writer Cary Bates takes his time addressing the bloodied and buried hand on the cover and instead leads with the Flash and Central City’s mayor who the Flash has just saved from a plane crash. As he quizzes the mayor, Flash begins to understand that the mayor was...
by Tom Batiuk | May 2, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
This issue opens just seconds after the last one with the Flash in the TV studio having just trashed the news desk. The Flash tries to explain that he was set-up, but is cut off before he can do that, and the Pied Piper’s plan to destroy the Flash’s reputation...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 25, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
After my praising Flash scribe Cary Bates’ straightforward story telling, he abandons linear storytelling completely and returns to his hopscotching ways giving us an issue that’s little more than a series of of clipped vignettes that are more of a list rather than a...
by Tom Batiuk | Oct 4, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
When we see the Flash Museum about to be attacked by some costumed vandals, we know what the next stop on the Flash trope tour is going to be as well as the character who’ll get a turn onstage for perhaps a final time. Sure enough, when the trio of vandals breaks in...
