The Flash Recommendations from r/DCcomics
Starting Points: By Mark Waid - By Joshua Williamson
Greatest Hits: By Grant Morrison and Mark Millar - Rebirth
Further Reading: By William Messner-Loebs - Titans: The Return of Wally West
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"This is it - the run. As Waid tells it, DC was planing to cancel The Flash but they gave him a chance to turn things around and boy did he ever. Beginning with a reintroduction of Wally's origin, Waid would reinvent the entire Flash mythos; he created a legacy of speed that transcended time and space, an infinite relay race all spawning from the heroic sacrifice of Barry Allen. His run spans 100 issues and 10 years of storytelling, creating things like the iconic Speed Force, Impulse, and Savitar to name a few. He expands the Flash Family, and creates new powers for the speedsters in it."
(1987-2009) #62-162
Collected in eight books.
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"While Mark Waid would create the mythos and the epic Flash Family, something was still missing. Barry's famous Rogues had not been a feature of the book for some time, mainly due to them either retiring or being dead; however, Johns saw this gap and took it upon himself to give Flash a rogues gallery to rival Batman and Spider-Man. Reinventing old ones, creating new ones, he added nuance and pathos to every rogue. Even the Iron Heights prison has character. Johns really makes the reader feel the tragedy of Captain Cold, the humanity of Fallout, and the hubris of Trickster.
Buckle up because you're gonna laugh, cheer, and cry all the way to the finish line with Wally and his family."
(1987-2009) #164-225
Collected in five books.
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"DC's "New 52" initiative was a line wide reboot of the DC Universe following Flashpoint. In other words, they threw everything away and restarted."
(2011-2016) #1-29
Mostly collected in an omnibus, or:
- Volume 1: Move Forward
- Volume 2: Rouges Revolution
- Starting Line
- Volume 3: Gorilla Warfare
- Volume 4: Reverse
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"Following DC Universe Rebirth, DC decided that the "New 52" wasn't that great of an idea and changed course. They wanted to bring everything back, for the Flash that meant bring back the Flash Family that had been missing for over 5 years. This is where that journey began; Barry's quest to reunite his family."
(2016-) #1-88, 750-762 (101)
Collected in:
- Volume 1: Lightning Strikes Twice
- Volume 2: Speed of Darkness
- Volume 3: Rogues Reloaded
- The Button
- Volume 4: Running Scared
- Volume 5: Negative
- Volume 6: Cold Day In Hell
- Volume 7: Perfect Storm
- Volume 8: Flash War
- Volume 9: Reckoning of the Forces
- Volume 10: Force War
- Volume 11: The Greatest Trick of All
- Year One
- Volume 12: Death and the Speed Force
- Volume 13: Rogues Reign
- Volume 14: The Flash Age + #750 Deluxe Edition
- Volume 15: Finish Line
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"Oh man, what a fun run. Mark Waid and his team needed a break after so many years of nonstop stories so comics legend Grant Morrison and his protege Mark Millar team up and deliver the ultimate power fantasy mixed with some cosmic wackiness. It's such a treat."
(1987-2009) #130-141
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"Barry is back from the dead! but a group of people from the future calling themselves the Renegades have appeared attempting to arrest Barry for a crime he hasn't even committed yet? It's Rogues vs. Flash vs. Renegades."
(2010-2011) #1-6
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"We are met with the appearance of a long lost speedster, a wizard of whiz, drifting through the infinite font of velocity known as the Speed Force - The ultimate nirvana for speedsters - however, this long distance runner wants out. While he doesn't know how long he has been drifting, he knows its only a matter of time before the Speed Force completely stripes him of his humanity, claiming him. Turning him into nothing more than fuel for the next generation. With his life ending our fleet footed hero makes one last attempt to find a strong enough lightning rod; a bond that has the potential to pull someone out of the Speed Force. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but there is a complication: the world has forgotten he ever existed."
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(1987-2009) #15-61
By William Messner-Loebs, partially collected in Savage Velocity (#15-18).
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#1-27
By Mark Waid, partially collected in Flash/Impulse: Runs in the Family.
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The Flash #123
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Collected in 80 Years of the Fastest Man Alive.
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