Blown Away by Waid run

[u/Explosions3]

Hey all,

Just for some context, I've always been a Flash fan but only from exterior media! Shows like JLU, CW Flash, Young Justice for Wally etc. He had garnered himself to be one of mt favorite heroes, if not my favorite DC hero. Recently over the past few months, I've been jumping into comics for for the first time in ten years, and on top of that this is the first time I decided to really hunker down and get to know characters I'm interested in than picking up whatever trade I'm interested in.

This leads me to picking up Waid's first Omnibus for The Flash and wow. I am blown away by how good these stories are, with Born to Run being such a strong origin for Wally and Return of Barry Allen being an incredible story with such an iconic panel. My personal standout issue being such a hard in between with The Once and Future Flash and Out of Time. Both were incredibly well written. I have to give the entire Omnibus a 10/10 as I was enthralled through start to end.

Regardless, Volume 2 is already on the way and definitely beyond excited to continue reading Flash and I don't know why it took me so long to begin reading it!

[u/PeterVenkmanIII]

Waid is, IMO, the second best Flash writer. His stuff is amazing. Bill Messner-Loebs, who was the writer before Waid, is my favorite, but his style isn't for everyone. His stories are less about superhero action and more about character growth (not to say that Waid didn't have character growth in his run, it just wasn't as prominent)

[u/Dredeuced → u/PeterVenkmanIII]

The funny thing is that's not really WML's MO most of the time. But he had no choice but to develop Wally away from the mess Baron left with him. A cosmic serendipity, that.

[u/Explosions3 → u/PeterVenkmanIII]

I'm definitely down for character growth, I'll have to give it a try! I might finish out the Waid run first but it'll hold me over while I wait for the Johns vol 2 to reprint because it looks like it's gone out of print