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One thing I’ve often found useful, working in shared universes, is what I think of as Featuring A Bug. What I mean by that is: think long and hard about the big Event Stuff going in, and there’s almost always gonna be plot holes, unanswered questions, uncertain pivots. So you simply make those things your story. Answer the question, plug the hole, explain the pivot. Hey presto: you’re being a good soldier, helping the wider universe retain its coherence. But you’re also doing so in a unique way. If you can also make that story support the threads you wanted to weave as part of your own book’s narrative, abracadabra: you’ve turned a bug into a feature. All of which is to say: I’ve been trusted to apply my own sideways-thinking weirdness to the book so far, and am therefore more than happy to field the curveballs from above, and sling them back with added glitter. -- Si Spurrier

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I read -- or reread in many cases -- a lot of the best Flash stories out there and I kind of slowly realized that there's this really interesting friction between stories which start from the perspective of "Well, he can run really fast and you don't need to understand why, that's not important, just watch him go and do some stuff." And there's another separate canon of stories which are all about "We need to lean heavily into understanding how and why he does this stuff," which relies upon a whole ton of cod science and really getting into the nitty-gritty and the detail of the why and the how of it. And both of those ideas, both of those approaches, have their virtues but they also annoy me for different reasons, and it kind of slowly came to me that there is a third route... -- Si Spurrier

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What I wanted to do was tell a story in which we lean into [the speed force] but without it being this very sort of sciencey gobbledygooky sort of notion that boxes creators into a corner by being overly defined. And so the alternative is to get quite psychedelic, and for that the trappings of cosmic horror were really apposite. -- Si Spurrier

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The All-In initiative is taking DC Comics in bold new directions. But where other books are going orbital, Flash is...um...going camping. -- Si Spurrier

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An exceptional jumping-on point. A wild new adventure. A family trip. A twist that changes everything. And feathery goddam dinosaurs. I've said it before: Flash is the most fertile marriage of wild ideas and human hearts. This arc is no exception. -- Si Spurrier

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Some people have said to me, "It's like switching on your computer. Do you know how your computer works?" The answer is no, but I know that in this world, there are people who do, and I trust them that my computer isn't actually running on demon juice or whatever. When Wally, Barry, and the rest of them utilize the Speed Force and travel close to, or past, the speed of light, burst into alternative realities, or ascend to strange bubble universes, they don't know what they're doing or the consequences of it. -- Si Spurrier

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Those who move at the speed of thought must often pause to feel. -- Si Spurrier

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Multiple times, writers have attempted to have authoritative, science-y people pop up in the comic and say, ‘Okay, we know what the Speed Force is, and it’s this.’ And then two weeks later, somebody says, ‘Okay, we know what the Speed Force is,’ and they never match up, and a lot of them make zero sense. What’s really fascinating about this whole paradigm is that, you’ve got all these characters who are whizzing around, tapping into this energy every day, and using it for, mostly, really selfless, amazing things, using it to be good people, to save the world, to help people, to do the right thing, and yet, none of them has a fucking clue where it’s coming from, what it is, whether there are consequences every time they tap into it. And that’s fascinating. And [chuckles] it’s very American, you know what I mean? -- Si Spurrier

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"SUBTEXT ALERT // SUBTEXT ALERT //" -- Si Spurrier

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Being inventive, fun, and a bit crazy, but at the same time, pivoting towards these slightly darker territories that I think are quite apposite with this IP, it could've been a mess and too many things in one place. But because it's all quite heightened anyway, it all fits together nicely. We're all steering toward it together rather than just leaving everybody behind and careening off in that direction. Grodd is great fun, and there's an awful lot more of that stuff coming down the pike, with big, bold villainy and crazy stuff, but always in service to this gradual shift toward creepy territory, and I think it works! -- Si Spurrier

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I’ve never had a hard time generating ideas – if anything, one of the criticisms I get is that I try to fit too many ideas into a single page of comics, and I think that’s bollocks. I think there should never be too many ideas. But that appears to be okay in The Flash. I can get away with it. Nobody goes, ‘Hang on a minute, you’ve had too many ideas, calm down and chill out a bit.’ So yeah, it seems to fit. -- Si Spurrier

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It cracks open avenues that are on an order of magnitude bigger than the biggest thing that matters on the planet Earth. So there’s that. On the other hand, it’s also a very intimate story about a family who happen to be superheroes, some of them. So a lot of that realpolitik that’s going on on the ground in the DC Universe is very pertinent and absolutely plays a part. -- Si Spurrier

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We've distilled all that we love about the Flash : silver-age vibes, cutting edge ideas, humanity at its best, uberaction... Then we’ve folded it, slow and sneaky, toward cosmic horror. Toward hungry things that chitter in the gaps between moments... -- Si Spurrier

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Bad puns are the one thing I can legitimately say "I was there before Gillen made it cool."- Si Spurrier

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He has utterly honest self-knowledge. He lies and cheats the people around him, but not himself. He knows he’s a weasel and a snake. He knows that he’ll keep on betraying the people around him. He knows he’ll spend his whole life feeling guilty. He’s doomed to keep doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, and that’s a really toothsome set of ingredients. -- Si Spurrier

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Between 2019 and 2021, Aaron Campbell and I chronicled John Constantine’s sly progress through London. For 13 issues, the book dripped with heart and hate and rage—rage at the state of the world, rage at the state of our minds and lives. Those 13 issues were our poisonous love letter to the Constantines of the past — Moore’s, Delano’s, Ennis’s. It was the best work we’ve ever done. And then it stopped. On a note of death and despair, with — like all magic — a heavy price levied. And now it’s back. Because the cost doesn’t count if we don’t get to see it being paid. Because even dead things can make a difference. -- Si Spurrier

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So I’ve got all of these huge conceptual mysteries to toy with, and I’ve got two or three really big answers that I’m gonna enjoy taking quite a long time to get to, and between now and then just a huge amount of beautiful, intimate human drama, and big, crazy, Silver Age-vibe action, and that’s the prescription. -- Si Spurrier

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Wally is all things to all people. He's a wonderful superhero capable of doing anything, he's a loving husband, he's a devoted father, he's got all these hats, and he's constantly racing between these different lives. He's always smiling, never complaining, constantly doing it all, and making everybody happy. Those scenes at the end of Jeremy's run... That's a lovely way to sign off. As a parent of small children with way too many hats on my head at all times, it is my thesis that that's something you cannot sustain for long without starting to feel the pressure, without the smile starting to crack, without all the stress and expectation starting to weigh down on your shoulders and starting to drag you down. -- Si Spurrier

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I suspect my name features in the "cerebral Vertigoesque weirdo" section in more than a few editors' rolodexes, so when Jon set up that hanging thread in X-Men #7 -- I think -- of Nightcrawler announcing, "I think I need to create a mutant religion," my name came up. That was an insanely tough brief to tackle, even for someone who, I admit it, is a massive nerd for comparative theology. I've never been the biggest fan of my own work, and there are things I would have handled differently. This was all happening during the hardest, darkest, most emotionally shattering two years of my life -- long story, the short version is "unwell kids" -- I'm pleased with how it turned out. All the same, having created this ultra-flexible doctrine of the Spark, which I've waxed loquacious elsewhere, and will spare you the usual spiel about pluripotent fictional philosophies which don't violate existing faiths; yes, having created all of that, it quite naturally became more interesting to start exploring the characterful interactions that surround it. -- Si Spurrier

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Flash #18 - "As the Universe"

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The Flash #13 - "And Everything After"

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The Flash Annual 2024 - "The Cosmological Quest for the Hero Wally West"

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