“The Return of the Silver-Age Flash continues!”

We are now up to the fourth issue of Barry Allen’s return and all I can say is that I am absolutely loving this book!

The art alone raises the story up a notch.  Ethan Van Sciver is drawing his ass off in this book.  His level of detail is extraordinary and he is fast becoming the master of super-speed pictures.  He must spend hours upon hours working on this book over what is normally done on a monthly title.

The story is great and it has boiled down to where it should go: a showdown between Flash and Reverse-Flash.  The return of Max Mercury is a welcome thing, because he’s a great character, though I wish we could have gotten Johnny back as well.  I guess you can’t get everything you want!

By the end of the book, I was looking for the next issue in my to read stack.  Sometimes a month between books sucks. Bring on issue number 5!

5 out of 5