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birdmanseven's review against another edition
4.0
I'm digging these new Barry Allen stories. His cop persona brings an interesting element. I loved having all of the rogues together and am really intrigued by the Flashpoint setup.
captwinghead's review against another edition
2.0
I give up on Geoff Johns. He has some of the greatest plots but there's never any real character development. Everything I've read of his for Avengers, Justice League and Flash has consisted of get character A to point B in the most interesting way possible. There's great characters in these arcs but you wouldn't know it because he doesn't do anything with their characterization.
There's the Rogues, a lot on Captain Boomerang and some interaction with Barry and Iris and his coworkers. At most, you get some stuff on Barry's mom and Captain Boomerang's childhood. For like 10 pages combined.
I was interested in the plot but for someone who doesn't know a lot about these characters aside from what I've read in team up books, there was nothing to make me root for or relate to them. Barry I know from the show and some stuff in JL books but without that prior knowledge, I'd barely want to root for him here. He's just a guy that did a good thing saving an innocent man from prison and that's all they tell you about him when they're not showing him dreaming about his mother. He gets the most development of anyone in the book and that's not saying much.
Anyway, this didn't really work for me but I'm still interested in Barry so I'll just have to find something else written by someone that focuses more on character.
There's the Rogues, a lot on Captain Boomerang and some interaction with Barry and Iris and his coworkers. At most, you get some stuff on Barry's mom and Captain Boomerang's childhood. For like 10 pages combined.
I was interested in the plot but for someone who doesn't know a lot about these characters aside from what I've read in team up books, there was nothing to make me root for or relate to them. Barry I know from the show and some stuff in JL books but without that prior knowledge, I'd barely want to root for him here. He's just a guy that did a good thing saving an innocent man from prison and that's all they tell you about him when they're not showing him dreaming about his mother. He gets the most development of anyone in the book and that's not saying much.
Anyway, this didn't really work for me but I'm still interested in Barry so I'll just have to find something else written by someone that focuses more on character.
fictionadventurer's review against another edition
4.0
Very fun comic. Great artwork, fun characters.
booknooknoggin's review against another edition
3.0
Time altering villains posing as heroes. Great story that leads into Flashpoint .
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