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RECOMMENDED (*** stars)
FLASH #197,
a DC COMICS ongoing series
CREDITS:
Written by Geoff Johns. Art by Scott Kolins.
SYNOPSIS: 'Blitz' begins and promises to change Flash forever.
It's also the beginning of the end of Kolins' run so start weeping now.
RELEASED:
04/16/03
COVER PRICE (USA):
$2.25
YOUR ALTERNATE REALITY PRICE:
$1.91 |
"...I would hope that
Geoff will explain how one thing leads to another
since it's screwing with a big part of Flash
continuity" |
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Review
by
Lawrence Evans
I
will admit that after reading the first part of 'Blitz' I am
somewhat confused. This first installment is according to the
cover the origin of Zoom but the events within seem to
contradict themselves because when we see Zoom at the end of the
issue it's not the Zoom we knew before or is it?
Keystone's profiler, Hunter Zolomon, narrates the entire issue.
When we last saw him he was wheelchair bound and asking Flash to
allow him to use the Cosmic Treadmill to change his history.
It's a pretty crappy history filled with death, more death and
overconfidence that left him crippled as well as divorced. His
father was a serial killer who made him an orphan before being
killed himself which made Hunter's choice in career very simple.
He met his girlfriend (later wife) at college and studied (under
her father) the art of psycho. On a case he really screwed up
badly which put him in Keystone with a permanent limp taking a
job nobody else wanted. We get these flashbacks (colored in
amber) as he lay in a hospital bed after the treadmill exploded
as he tried to use it.
Aside from the flashbacks the entire issue happens inside the
hospital. The Johns story moves casually towards the shock
ending (that got me confused) that to Hunter seems rather
logical. I would hope that Geoff will explain how one thing
leads to another since like I said, it's screwing with a big
part of Flash continuity.
Fans are really going to miss Scott Kolins on this book since it
was here that he made the transition from 'fill in guy' to major
talent. The man replacing him, Alberto Dose, has a more Vertigo
like style but if Johns plans on making the character darker
then he should work after we get used to him.
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FLASH © 2003 DC Comics.
All Rights Reserved. |
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Review ©
2003 Alternate Reality, Inc. |
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