The Flash Vol. 1: Move Forward Author: FRANCIS MANAPUL BRIAN BUCCELLATO | Language: English | ISBN:
B009TH2OZO | Format: PDF
The Flash Vol. 1: Move Forward Description
Struck by a bolt of lightning and doused in chemicals, Central City Police scientist Barry Allen was transformed into the fastest man alive. Tapping into the energy field called The Speed Force, he applies a tenacious sense of justice to protect an serve the world as The Flash!
The Fastest Man Alive returns to his own monthly series as part of the DC Comics—The New 52 event with the writer/artist team of Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato. The Flash knows he can't be everywhere at once, but he has seemingly met his match when he faces DC Comic' hottest new Super Villain, Mob Rule, who really can be everywhere at once!
As Mob Rule wages a campaign of crime across Central City, including an electromagnetic blast that plunges the city into darkness, The Flash learns the the only way he can capture Mob Rule and save Central City is to learn how to make his brain function even faster than before—but as much as it helps him, it also comes with a steep price.
- File Size: 129954 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (November 20, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009TH2OZO
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,843 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
With any comic reboot, we all either get excited or nervous when we hear about who writes and draws what comics. In case of the DC New 52, news of The Flash team was in the camp of nervousness for fans. Francis Manapul, who's made a name for himself doing some exquisite art work with Geoff Johns in Flash Vol. 1: The Dastardly Death of the Rogues! (Flash (Graphic Novels)) and The Flash Vol. 2: The Road to Flashpoint (Flash (Graphic Novels))--as well as his colorist Brian Buccellato--were announced as co-writers and artist. Two artists with no prior writing credits? That makes anyone nervous. So how do these two do taking on an A-list character and filling in the shoes that Geoff Johns filled? Pretty darn impressed, if you ask me.
THE FLASH VOL.1: MOVE FORWARD collects issues #1-8 and is divided into two separate stories. Issues 1-5 deal with Barry Allen, crime scene investigator, enjoying his date with fellow police blood analyze, Patty Spivot. Upon visiting a science exhibition, the place gets attacked by an organization by the named Mob Rules. After the attack, one of the dead assailants is an odd friend of Barry's named Manuel, who Barry hasn't seen in years. Barry investigates into it, but Manuel (alive somehow) finds Barry and is trying to get away from some people. Come to find out, these people are hundreds of people that look just like Manuel! And issues 6-8 deal with an old Rouge enemy Leonard Snart, AKA Captain Cold, wanting revenge on the Flash. How will the Flash deal with these situations?
For a long time, Barry Allen was dead. Then Geoff Johns found a way to bring him back and - doing what Johns always does best - made him better by showcasing his police scientist background. Of course, now that ground-breaking television series like CSI, Bones, and others have educated the public on what those departments do. Except that in most cases those television shows venture more into the comic book realm than superheroes do because they don't get the facts quite right. But there is this educated audience out there now.
With the New 52, Barry is the same, but different. He's not quite the Flash I grew up with. He's dating Patty, not Iris, and I have to admit that I like Patty a lot. She's just a better fit.
Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato are splitting the writing/art chores and they're doing a dynamite job on the art. The writing is really good for the most part, but I'm not sure what they're after. In the first arc of this graphic novel, the focus is more on Barry's old friend who becomes Mob Rule. Barry and his issues almost take a second banana role in the story. Overall, I enjoyed the story as well as the twists and turns it took, and the scientific curiosity of it all.
Science is playing a major role in this new Flash book. Not only with the police science, but with the possibility of things as well. Flash is pairing up with Dr. Elias and they end up doing the treadmill experiment, which has got to ping all kinds of memories for long-time Flash readers. A treadmill has always racked up a lot of mileage in the Flash tales.
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