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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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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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He's unique in that he's the sidekick who made it. He started out as this plucky, youthful sidekick character that idolized his hero, Barry, who spent his life studying and learning how to be him, he became it and went through so many ups and downs, trials and tribulations, and eventually exceeded his mentor. He became the fastest man who ever lived, and that's a really interesting dynamic. -- Si Spurrier

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It’s the sort of IP, for a host of reasons that I could bore you with, like pub chat territory, but it’s the sort of IP where it doesn’t feel awkward to be telling very intimate human stories in the same breath as gorillas invading Central City, or just really batshit sci-fi stuff. As long as you pack it with clever ideas, and as long as the underlying theme speaks to humanity and heart and doing the best you can, and it doesn’t matter how fast you can run, you also have to be a good person – these are all sort of things that The Flash is so very good at. So it’s always been a sort of paperclip at the back of my head that if ever I got the chance, those are the sorts of things that I could throw at it. -- Si Spurrier

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It would've just felt disingenuous and disrespectful to go, "No, this isn't a superhero comic anymore! It's not about a family who loves each other. It's about spooky horror stuff!" I would've hated that, and I think the fans would've quite rightfully turned their noses up at it. Instead, we set ourselves the challenge of doing both... -- Si Spurrier

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Reading this was electric. It had the kind of jolt for me as reading the first Alan Moore Swamp Thing and I do not say this lightly. -- Gail Simone

If you remember what happened with Immortal Hulk? The magic is happening again. -- Paul Cornell

The Anatomy Lesson you've been waiting for; reverent of what came before, yet unafraid to beat a bold new path. -- Alex Paknadel

It's both 1) a take on Flash comics that's never been done in over 80 years (cosmic horror) and 2) very true to what's come before, the characters and the "feel" of what makes a Flash comic. How does this happen? Magic, I guess? -- Christos Gage

It's not really something I've ever been given the opportunity to do before, you know? I think I'm in a lot of editors' Rolodex as the cerebral Vertigo guy and they sort of come to me when they want a story about... Nightcrawler inventing a religion or whatever it may be. So to get the opportunity to do some good old superheroing [instead] is quite exciting. -- Si Spurrier

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The Flash #17 - "So Within"

The Flash #16 - "As Without"

The Flash #15 - "So Below"

Flash #14 - "As Above"

The Flash #13 - "And Everything After"

The Flash #12 - "Until Time Stands Still"

The Flash #11 - "Cutting the Pie"

The Flash #10 - "Run Red" [Absolute Power tie-in]

The Flash #9 - "The Crown"

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

The Flash #9: The Man In White Identity Reveal

The Flash #8 - "Pioneers"

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The Flash #6 - "The Gift"

The Flash #5 - "Top Priority"

The Flash #4 - "The Gallery"

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The Flash #3 - "Angles"

The Flash #2 - "Stepping Out"

The Flash #1-2 - "Strange Attractor"

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