The Flash #1 Review: A New and Terrifying Vision of the Speed Force Emerges

The Flash was one of the very first superheroes I followed in comics; I was lucky enough to discover the thrill of serialized stories in the midst of writer Geoff Johns' run and just as Mark Waid's from a decade prior was made available in trade paperbacks. Yet following Johns' departure from the series, I discovered The Flash to be the sort of title that required a special creative spark to activate.

The Flash #1 possesses that strange tone of epiphany, wherein the world remains largely the same, but everything suddenly seems different. When the issue opens with Max and Bart training, it offers a portentous vision of a buffalo with glowing red eyes standing in the snow. That moment and subsequent moments of strangeness relating to the Speed Force, develop a sense of unease about the operating system of speedsters in DC Comics.

Those layouts, especially the shattering of a single, wide image with white backgrounds serve to display super-speed in a fascinating fashion. It focuses attention on static characters and offers a greater sense of the instantaneous acceleration surrounding them and changing their world, as with Linda West in her home with three speedsters.

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