Heroes Reborn #3: Race Through the Dread Dimension

[superboyprime]

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[superboyprime]

So how is it that Jason Aaron does in one issue with a knockoff version what actually Flash comics keep failing to do, as he taps into the simple, core appeal of the character: He runs really, really fast and that's really, really cool!

If he can do that in just one issue, why is it that with unlimited issues the actual Flash comics can't and instead are always focusing on his legacy, or his family, or multiverse structure, or the Strength Force, or whatever other dull lore?

[shakalooloo]

Yeah, each of the races touched on for a single dialogue box here has the potential to be a whole Flash story.

There must be a big story around why Death has an Infinity Chopper and yet Johnny Blaze has to run everywhere. Since Mephisto is in charge of this reality, why was his revenge on the Ghost Rider restricted to just making him a pedestrian?

[numeronone]

Why else? He thought it'd be funny. Blaze is just lucky he hasn't been stuck on a segway...

[scorntx]

Or a pogo stick.

[zachbeacon]

I always thought the Flash's power set lent itself to some really weird experimental storytelling but instead we mostly get "OMG Barry broke time again"

[scorntx]

Powers of the Phoenix:
Fire! And life incarnate!
Tremendous cosmic power.
Flight (terrestrial and interstellar)
Burns through lies.
Can control rats.

Yeeeeah. Can see why it keeps that one off the business cards.


Is it just me, or does Wanda's outfit look better than any Pietro's had over the last sixty years?

(also: What's worse than a bear? A super-powered bear! What's worse than that? A Commie super-powered bear!)

[lordultimus]

I actually really like this. It's a very interesting deconstruction of how overpowered the Flash is.