The Flash
monition : SPOILERS forThe Flash # 70
Frank Miller ’s iconic graphical novelBatman : Year Oneis extremely regarded as one of the greatest comic books of all sentence . And while other fellow member of the Bat - Family like Nightwing and Batgirl have get down the ' Year One ' treatment , DC ’s other big hero seldom have . That is , until now , thanks to the arrival ofThe Flash : Year Oneby Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter .
In this exciting unexampled arc , Barry Allen rooter eventually get to witness the year one , secret line of the degenerate military man alive ! With The Flash hitting the ground running as an show hero inThe New 52 and Rebirthstory - lines , it ’s actually been quite some time since lover have get a proper retelling of how Barry Allen scram his speed . Which makesThe Flash : Year Onenot only the canonical start of Barry ’s career as The Flash , but the perfect opportunity for first time lector and Speed Force fanatics alike to see how his root storyreallyplayed out .
What initiate out as a distinctive origin story inThe Flash#70quickly becomes something completely new . That being said , fans of The Flash will emphatically appreciate some precious nod tothe Golden Age Flash , Jay Garrickas a character in the sure-enough amusing record book collection belonging to Barry ’s mother . And of path , a Flash rootage story would n’t be complete without the iconic research lab fortuity and lightning bolt that start it all .
From there , it ’s the standard ( but always entertaining , thanks once again to artist Howard Porter ) collage of Barry ascertain how to use his powers , with the addition of catalogue his abilities in a superpower daybook speaking to the science nerds more than ever before . From his fabled caloric ingestion to the side effects of f number reading a hundred al-Qur’an in a minute , Barry documents his physical changes one at a metre . Overall , it ’s a middling standard and entertaining Flash stemma … with the added price of how many running horseshoe Barry actually melted before ever mastering the art of ' stopping . '
But the real change comes when Barry unintentionally runs SO fast that he breaks the clock time barrier and cease up in a black dystopian future . Just as he ’s getting his heraldic bearing , a fascistic military building block come upon our confused hero in training . Claiming to be part ofKing Turtle’sregime , the soldier face Barry for being"out of his shell . “But just when thing are about to get ugly , a mysterious red blur disenable the soldiers out of nowhere . The last thing we see is Old Man Flash berating his his vernal ego by need what we ’re all conceive ; will the Scarlet Speedster ever really take how dangerous clock time travel is ?
While time travel is nothing unexampled for The Flash , the fact that this fall out during hisfirst yearas the speedster of Central City means this is now canonically the first time that Barry has chuck out himself through time . And who is this doubtful ' King Turtle ' who seems to have take over Central City ? Our money is distinctly on the admittedly lesser - cognise Flash Rogue known as The Turtle , whose world power slow down time . One thing is for certain : we wish we could travel into the future to find out what happens in the next issuance .
The Flash # 70is useable now from your local mirthful book store and online unmediated fromDC Comics .
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