Back Issues: "The Flash: Terminal Velocity"
The New 52 sees Francis Manapul and Brian Buccelato take on "The Flash" in what is, in my opinion (my correct opinion!!!), one of the best comics produced by either of the Big Two comicbook publishers in recent years. So with my obvious new found love of The Flash, I went searching for older stories. What I found was Mark Waid and Salvador Larroca’s "Terminal Velocity".
Published in issues #95 to 100 of Flash, in 1995, Terminal Velocity follows Wally West as he comes back from the future, tries to train a new Flash (at the time, known as Impulse), takes on Kobra and tries to deal with some new information gained while travelling through time.
For example, there was a scene where Impulse acted without thinking, causing the Kobra facility they were investigating to explode. While saving Impulse, Flash berates him and shouts “And who pays the price for that failure, punk? You? No! Me!” and runs off into the distance shouting “meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!” That’s so dramatic it stops being dramatic and becomes funny. But Waid’s writing on the whole is pretty good. The guy knows what he’s doing, and he’s obviously a fan of these larger than life superheroes and their ridiculous stories. He still suffers from the same problems every writer seemed to have in the 90s, though. Over use of dialogue was the big one. I get that the “science” behind the plot and character backgrounds takes a lot of time and words to deal with but... There are a lot of word balloons in this, for a guy who’s supposed to go REALLY freaking fast.
So, have you read Terminal Velocity? Are you keeping up to date with the fastest man alive? Let us know below!
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