SebastianPiccione
Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:57 AM
Title: FLASH: REBIRTH # 5
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Ethan Van Sciver
Inks:
Colors: Brian Miller of HI-FI
Number of pages: 32
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Reviewer Comments:
Ok, I debated giving this four stars, but thought about some of the events involving the Flash family and realized, yeah, this issue gets the full five stars!
The issue picks up were #4 left off. For those of you who can't REMEMBER that far back, Barry, Wally, Jay, and Max (Mercury) are fighting The Reverse-Flash, who is schooling them (literally and figuratively) on the true nature of the Speed Force. Everybody pulls out the stops and the focus by good and bad seems to be using the Speed Force for more than just running.
We also the resolution to West twins' power crisis, including a panel of Iris and the kids that harkens back to a famous Batman Year One cover.
Wally shows Barry a new Speed Force trick, even smirking as he quips "I'll have to teach you this trick." We get to see Liberty Belle in her Jesse Quick outfit, Max Mercury is back for the long haul, Wally gets a new costume that is actually a cool looking amalgamation of the various Flash suits he's worn throughout his career as Flash, and a new/old character picks up a new/old indentity! In fact, for me, the only way this could have been any better would have been if X-S from the LEGION had shown up.
Still, the tail end of the book comes down to Barry and Zoom in a race both physical and psychological leading up to issue #6.
A great issue that'll be even better when #6 hits and we can read them all as one big story.
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Ethan Van Sciver
Inks:
Colors: Brian Miller of HI-FI
Number of pages: 32
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Reviewer Comments:
Ok, I debated giving this four stars, but thought about some of the events involving the Flash family and realized, yeah, this issue gets the full five stars!
The issue picks up were #4 left off. For those of you who can't REMEMBER that far back, Barry, Wally, Jay, and Max (Mercury) are fighting The Reverse-Flash, who is schooling them (literally and figuratively) on the true nature of the Speed Force. Everybody pulls out the stops and the focus by good and bad seems to be using the Speed Force for more than just running.
We also the resolution to West twins' power crisis, including a panel of Iris and the kids that harkens back to a famous Batman Year One cover.
Wally shows Barry a new Speed Force trick, even smirking as he quips "I'll have to teach you this trick." We get to see Liberty Belle in her Jesse Quick outfit, Max Mercury is back for the long haul, Wally gets a new costume that is actually a cool looking amalgamation of the various Flash suits he's worn throughout his career as Flash, and a new/old character picks up a new/old indentity! In fact, for me, the only way this could have been any better would have been if X-S from the LEGION had shown up.
Still, the tail end of the book comes down to Barry and Zoom in a race both physical and psychological leading up to issue #6.
A great issue that'll be even better when #6 hits and we can read them all as one big story.