The Flash #12 (The Road to Flashpoint, Part IV)

This is it! The final chapter on the Road to Flashpoint! Hot Pursuit's allegiances and the true culprit behind the age accelerating death of the Elongated Kid are finally revealed.

  Geoff Johns ends this Flash series in such a way that to disclose anything else will reveal some major spoilers. I know that it's been 5 years since this issue first came out but what with the next season of the Flash going to cover the Flashpoint storyline, I really should stay mum on some things.

  A great read however! Now on to Flashpoint!

 
Worth Consuming

 Rating: 10 out of 10 stars.

The Flash #11 (The Road to Flashpoint, Part III)

  Is the multiverse hopping Motorcyclist Hot Pursuit behind the bizarre death of the Elongated Kid? The Flash isn't sure. But the hi-tech biker thinks that the sudden aging of the fallen superhero might be the result of a chronal paradox and targets Bart Allen whose from the future. As the Central City crime lab performs an autopsy on the Elongated Kid, Barry must race Hot Pursuit for the life of young Bart. But the Scarlet Speedster had better be right that his descendant from the future isn't the culprit or the very fabric of the multiverse could unravel spelling the end of all existence.

     This is Barry Allen at his very best- solving a mystery. The Flash has a great group of villains with the Rogues but the character really is in his element when it comes to solving crimes. If the story is a mystery involving Flash's Rogues Gallery, even better!

  Whether or not Hot Pursuit will join the Rogues remains to be seen. But this was another action packed story by Geoff Johns that will leave you guessing all the way to the end and some…

 Worth Consuming

 Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.

The Flash #10 (The Road to Flashpoint, Part II)

   The Flash comes face-to-face with the multiverse literally as he pursues the mysterious motorcycle driver known as Hot Pursuit. Meanwhile, a blast from Barry Allen's past returns to help determine the how and why the Elongated Kid was murdered. But it's going to be difficult

for the World's Fastest Man to balance his life as both a criminologist and as a mask as cracks in the relationship between the Flash and Bart Allen come to the surface.

    A very faced paced issue with some neat twists and turns. Another character that I thought was only created for the TV show pops up in this issue proving me wrong yet again. But it's not a bad thing; it only helps me fall in love with the CW series all that much more. And the all-new character of Hot Pursuit is awesome. I hope he'll pop up in Central City sometime next season.

   Worth Consuming

   Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.

The Flash #9 (The Road to Flashpoint, Part I)

  It's the day of the Flash Family picnic and Barry Allen is about to leave his overworked crime lab when he gets the call to investigate the death of a 'cape.' At the crime scene, things are nothing as they seem as the costume is that of the teenaged Elongated Kid but the corpse looks like that of an octogenarian. As Barry seeks to get behind this bizarre death, the crimefighter is challenged by a new foe that seems very familiar with the Speed Force. Only this speedster drives a souped-up motorcycle and is powered by draining the speed of others in tune with the Speed Force as the Flash learns when he touches his opponent's fuel rods.

    This is a really great issue. Full of drama, action, adventure, and mystery. Okay- there was a tiny bit too much soap opera drama but hey, Grant Gustin's Barry Allen gets mopey all the time! Speaking of Gustin, what I really liked about this issue is how closely the set-up is to that of the TV show. 

   When I first starting watching the Flash, I was disappointed at how it looked nothing like the comics. But I realize now that my judgment was based on the Pre-Crisis Flash and not the Post-Rebirth Flash. Man, I was so wrong. Most of the CW show's premise is the same with this 2011 series. Barry's mother was killed by the Reverse Flash. There's a fellow criminologist named Patty who has a thing for Barry. Even the archetypes for Joe West and Captain Singh are in this book (Barry's crime lab supervisor is named Singh. On the show, he's promoted to the  head of the CCPD precinct where Joe and Barry work.) Sadly, there is no Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, or whoever the heck the awesome Tom Cavanagh happens to be playing this week.

      Going into this Flashpoint summer reading, I was expecting to find a world completely unlike that on the live action series. How wrong was I to discover that the comics are much more in tuned with the Arrowverse's Flash that I ever expected! I can't wait for the next chapter!

    Worth Consuming

    Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.