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artist: Phil Hester
There's no TV series I'd rather be watching right now than The Flash. No, this isn't 1990, but you might be mistaken for believing so, because the new show has acknowledged its predecessor by bringing back many of the original stars. That's just one of the reasons I can't believe this is happening.
Well, thank goodness Smallville happened, made it safe for DC superheroes in prime time again. I don't care for Arrow, but at least it gave us The Flash.
Yet I still haven't seen an episode. I know, we live in a multi-platform age where being unable to watch live is no longer even a ghost of an excuse, but hey, things happen. I'll catch it on DVD, just like the first one. That's the speed at which I run, yo.
And there's a comic. The first one had a special that recapped the whole series, but this one has a whole, digital-first, comic book series to call its own. Miracles of modern times.
And the best part about it is another resurrection. The artist, Phil Hester.
Hester is a writer/artist, actually, and a lot of his recent work has been as a writer, but he first came to prominence as an artist, where among other projects he helped Kevin Smith on a Green Arrow relaunch (appropriately enough).
I'd begun getting used to the idea of Hester as a writer, working on his own projects (one of many writer/artists I don't understand why the comics industry hasn't thrown itself all over them to deliver a steady stream of such work), but heck, I can't kid myself. I love Hester's art.
And it looks much as it did before. Sometimes there's something to be said for consistency. I don't know that Hester has worked on the Flash before. I don't know if he's necessarily ideal at depicting speed, but apparently that's not completely necessary for this version of the character.
As represented in the comic, this is a Barry Allen who seems to have taken a lot from the Mark Waid comics featuring Wally West, as well as the Barry comics from Geoff Johns. I like.
And it beats whatever they've been doing in the New 52 with the canonical version of the Fastest Man Alive.
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Hester is a writer/artist, actually, and a lot of his recent work has been as a writer, but he first came to prominence as an artist, where among other projects he helped Kevin Smith on a Green Arrow relaunch (appropriately enough).
I'd begun getting used to the idea of Hester as a writer, working on his own projects (one of many writer/artists I don't understand why the comics industry hasn't thrown itself all over them to deliver a steady stream of such work), but heck, I can't kid myself. I love Hester's art.
And it looks much as it did before. Sometimes there's something to be said for consistency. I don't know that Hester has worked on the Flash before. I don't know if he's necessarily ideal at depicting speed, but apparently that's not completely necessary for this version of the character.
As represented in the comic, this is a Barry Allen who seems to have taken a lot from the Mark Waid comics featuring Wally West, as well as the Barry comics from Geoff Johns. I like.
And it beats whatever they've been doing in the New 52 with the canonical version of the Fastest Man Alive.
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