artist: Federico Dallacchio
Listen, so I was a huge fan of Mark Waid's Flash. For that reason, I became interested in the character in a more general sense. Eventually this led me to "The Trial of the Flash," a years-long arc that wrapped up Barry Allen's stories prior to his death in Crisis On Infinite Earths. I obsessed over reading the complete arc for years, and then DC collected most of it in a giant black and white omnibus.
And you know what? It's...not easy reading for someone who grew up with comics written from a more...literary perspective, the impact of the British Invasion that was just getting underway when Barry seemed to have left comics behind forever.
So it's great to see Barry Allen's adventures from that time in a style I can more easily appreciate. Because that's exactly what this is. And it's another of the many excellent things to appreciate about Convergence.
It also doesn't hurt to have Dan Abnett at the helm. Abnett typically works in tandem with Andy Lanning, but I discovered the pleasures of a solo Abnett through his excellent Conspiracy mini-series for Marvel, and ever since have been hoping to see it again. I am not at all disappointed with the results.
(Also, the included image is a wickedly delightful meta commentary on the whole Convergence event.)
They have the Trial of the Flash comics on sale for 99 cents until Wednesday.
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