by tombatiuk | Mar 31, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Let’s talk art here for a moment. First, you can never go wrong with a Gil Kane cover, especially one inked by Dick Giordano. However, the bigger and very pleasant surprise comes inside the book where we find that Dennis Jensen, who came on board as inker a...
by tombatiuk | Mar 24, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
The kid from Dayton who grew up to write the book he loved, Cary Bates, and the editor who at the Tony Isabella driveway con said that The Flash was the book that influenced him the most as a youth, Mike Barr, both look fondly back to the Flash’s Silver era for...
by tombatiuk | Mar 17, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Okay, Gang, we’re in full wayback mode now. This issue not only brings back the toy magnate Willard W. Wiggins, but we also see the return of his most notorious creation, Captain Boomerang. Writer Cary Bates isn’t simply borrowing from the past anymore,...
by tombatiuk | Mar 10, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
The strip mining of the Flash’s backstory by Cary Bates continues unacarybated as this issue takes us back to the cover depicting electric moment when Barry Allen received his super speed powers. The story opens with the arrival from the future of a visitor...
by tombatiuk | Mar 3, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
One of John Broome’s most elegiac characters, Daphne Dean, returns to The Flash in a story that harkens back to back to wistful childhood memories of Daphne and Barry Allen when they were children together in Fallville. Daphne would play the damsel in distress,...
