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Well, I am finally reading my issues of The Flash from May - #70 and #71. Yes, I know it’s July. Yes, May was a really long month.
First thoughts on issue 70: wow they’re really leaning hard on the TV show. Nonetheless, it’s sweet, and I like the explicit acknowledgement of Jay Garrick existing as a comic book character. I remember that by the time the first season came to an end I’d picked up enough to know how much the Flash(es) were tied to the DC multiverse, and it’s cool to see that hat-tip again.
All the Rogues in the headlines in the background of Iris’s appearance was very cool.
Also, points for the fact that the first words someone who knows him says to him in the future are “Dammit, Barry!” I feel they have really captured a certain essence.
I don’t have much to say about the special Batman trailer in the back, but I do like a good horror setup, and the fly is reminding me really hard of the time Anton Arcane crawled out of hell and into a fly and made a deal with/possessed that reality-altering jackass (whose name is possibly a spoiler, so). I might look at the GN if it hits the library.
On issue 71: while I am annoyed by Barry continuing the trend of still not telling people close to him (literally, himself) important information, I am so amused by the fact that his touchstone to excuse it is “You and I have read the same comics, Barry.” that I am giving it a pass.
Iris West continues to be spectacular.
I had a moment of wondering why the Turtle didn’t look any younger in the present than in the future before realizing– oh, right, he’s the Turtle.
(Also, future!Barry said “none of us took him seriously”, and Barry is clearly taking the Turtle seriously now, which might suggest a change due to time travel– but future!Barry also said he’d been through this before, which suggests he knows Barry came forward and learned from him (see also: the slide). So either (1) this isn’t an issue and will get sorted out, or (2) it’s another thing I’m not getting an answer to like “how did James Jesse get Axel out form under the collapsing Iron Heights building” yes I will die mad about that give me answers.)
On a meta* note: the Event Leviathan stuff is really annoying me. It annoys me because as the issue’s moving towards the climax, the first thing I see when I turn the page is not more story, and it annoys me because it’s giving every impression of being a mean, dour event in the vein of “the world is hard and the heroes haven’t been written as fixing all the problems, so it’s time for another argument about how the solution is to be an asshole bully.” F* you gently, IP owners, there is only so many times you can do “well heroes keep not winning because we keep focussing on how we write them as not winning” before you get freaking boring and you are past your count for this decade.
*I’m not sure exactly what kind of meta. It’s not metatextual (because the ads aren’t commenting on the primary text, just interrupting it) and it’s not metafictional (because it’s not commentary within the fiction on the fiction), but it’s definitely some kind of meta. Metamedium? Or do I step back and look at the whole issue as a single work of fiction (including the N0S4A2 ad on the back) and consider it metafictional in that sense?
Well, I am finally reading my issues of The Flash from May - #70 and #71. Yes, I know it’s July. Yes, May was a really long month.
First thoughts on issue 70: wow they’re really leaning hard on the TV show. Nonetheless, it’s sweet, and I like the explicit acknowledgement of Jay Garrick existing as a comic book character. I remember that by the time the first season came to an end I’d picked up enough to know how much the Flash(es) were tied to the DC multiverse, and it’s cool to see that hat-tip again.
All the Rogues in the headlines in the background of Iris’s appearance was very cool.
Also, points for the fact that the first words someone who knows him says to him in the future are “Dammit, Barry!” I feel they have really captured a certain essence.
I don’t have much to say about the special Batman trailer in the back, but I do like a good horror setup, and the fly is reminding me really hard of the time Anton Arcane crawled out of hell and into a fly and made a deal with/possessed that reality-altering jackass (whose name is possibly a spoiler, so). I might look at the GN if it hits the library.
On issue 71: while I am annoyed by Barry continuing the trend of still not telling people close to him (literally, himself) important information, I am so amused by the fact that his touchstone to excuse it is “You and I have read the same comics, Barry.” that I am giving it a pass.
Iris West continues to be spectacular.
I had a moment of wondering why the Turtle didn’t look any younger in the present than in the future before realizing– oh, right, he’s the Turtle.
(Also, future!Barry said “none of us took him seriously”, and Barry is clearly taking the Turtle seriously now, which might suggest a change due to time travel– but future!Barry also said he’d been through this before, which suggests he knows Barry came forward and learned from him (see also: the slide). So either (1) this isn’t an issue and will get sorted out, or (2) it’s another thing I’m not getting an answer to like “how did James Jesse get Axel out form under the collapsing Iron Heights building” yes I will die mad about that give me answers.)
On a meta* note: the Event Leviathan stuff is really annoying me. It annoys me because as the issue’s moving towards the climax, the first thing I see when I turn the page is not more story, and it annoys me because it’s giving every impression of being a mean, dour event in the vein of “the world is hard and the heroes haven’t been written as fixing all the problems, so it’s time for another argument about how the solution is to be an asshole bully.” F* you gently, IP owners, there is only so many times you can do “well heroes keep not winning because we keep focussing on how we write them as not winning” before you get freaking boring and you are past your count for this decade.
*I’m not sure exactly what kind of meta. It’s not metatextual (because the ads aren’t commenting on the primary text, just interrupting it) and it’s not metafictional (because it’s not commentary within the fiction on the fiction), but it’s definitely some kind of meta. Metamedium? Or do I step back and look at the whole issue as a single work of fiction (including the N0S4A2 ad on the back) and consider it metafictional in that sense?
