Special: AKA Jessica Jones Episode 1: AKA Ladies Night Review

Back in April this here blog tackled reviewing the very first episode of Daredevil (which can be found here). At that point Daredevil was kicking off a spat of Netflix Original Series for Marvel and I wrote that this allows Marvel to take a darker route without alienating their movie fanbase, or even worse, leaving money on the table since the scores of 12 year olds couldn't see these dark, R rated premises. Now lets find out if AKA Jessica Jones is following the same route or if it's building it's own path.

Unlike Daredevil, Jessica Jones doesn't start with an origin, rather we get a first hand look at her powers. She catches a wife sleeping around on her husband, now would be a good time to mention she's a freelance Private Eye, anyway... When she shows the husband he gets irate at her because crazy people. She promptly sends him through the door with the pictures and we hear her say "now for the matter of my bill" all-the-while she's giving us a narrator speech about what she does and her characteristics. When reaching a lawyer's office and asking the woman for work she chimes in on a couple characteristics of her own that Jessica has a response for. She's called volatile, erratic and unprofessional. Jessica considers herself effective since several jobs were brought to her only after several others have failed and she completed them. The lawyer tips her hat to Jessica and mentions she's aware of her methods, but methods she needs.

We then see Jessica in full on P.I. mode... ON THE TOILET! Who says we never see superheroes use the bathroom anyway? She fleeces some information from some poor girl on the other end of the line and then she calls it a night... OR she would if she could sleep. She decides to creepily watch some random people (and one not so random one). She ends up having a vision that frightens her so she hits the booze hard and wakes up to someone in her apartment/office... Turns out it's her neighbor Malcolm though, he doesn't seem to serve any purpose yet but the next people that walk in do!

Mr. and Mrs. come up from Omaha after their daughter, Hope, has vanished, well vanished is not the right word since they know she's around she just left school, the track team and stopped keeping in touch, they were sent to Jessica by someone at the Police Station to have her investigate since the police state no crime was committed. While investigating she found out that Hope had met a guy and she's likely out with him according to her former best friend and roommate.

Jessica takes a break from that and decides to serve some creep with court papers (this is the lawyers job). This is when we see her super strength on camera as she lifts the guy's car up, in order to get him to take the paperwork she threatens him with her "laser eyes" a power she doesn't actually have. But something the lawyer is still none too happy with, we also see her dealing with more of the difficult nightmares that have been plaguing her.

The rest of the episode has Jessica meeting the mysterious man she was photographing earlier, my P.I, skills tells me it's Luke Cage but they don't state his name. Jessica also uncovers the truth about Hope and who this mysterious man is who took her away, turns out there are ties between Hope and Jessica that Jessica would rather forget. The end of episode 1 also leaves you with a shocking conclusion that'll leave you shocked.

Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica Jones, she's previously had small roles in feature films such as Big Eyes, She's Out Of My League and Confessions Of A Shopaholic, though she's mostly known for her TV work like Veronica Mars, The Gilmore Girls and Breaking Bad. She does a fine job though it's a bit weird for me to see her behind the camera instead of in front of it, a 360 from her Veronica Mars days where she disliked the teen P.I. Veronica. Other than Ritter no other real main cast were introduced. There was Trish who runs a morning show and had former ties to Jessica though we don't know how. The lawyer who again only appeared near the beginning and on the phone later after the laser eye incident. There's also the aforementioned Malcolm, he seems like he'll be the comedic relief if he's anything at all going forward.

AKA Jessica Jones is much, much darker than Daredevil. Daredevil had dark underlying tones but the over arching sentiment was hope and that was the ray of light to get through the dark times. Jessica Jones takes it to a whole other level as it tends to lean towards more of a thriller but also is dark with having it's main character dealing with mental deficiencies, in this case PTSD. She's also a raging alcoholic who refuses to see a psychiatrist or take her medication.

The dark tones also are reflected in the setting so most of the episode takes place at night which works well given it's comic book roots, the lighting leaves that ink like feeling and you're just watching intently until its time to turn the page. It's also refreshing to see LGBT featured in the Marvel Universe though I don't know if having a love triangle between three lesbians is the best way to utilize it but time will tell!

Overall AKA: Jessica Jones didn't have the set up that Daredevil had that made me want more right from the get go but the episode and the ending especially has me geared up to watch more and it certainly appears to have a chance at being better than Murdoch and co. by the time I've watched the 13 episodes in full.

Special: Free Comic Book Day 2015 Reviews

Another Free Comic Book Day is in the books and I was fortunate enough to grab 38 books this year. So here's the 38 books I got, reviewed and ranked including it's pre-reading rank but first let's list the 12 books I didn't get along with their pre-FCBD ranking:

Dr. Who Special (50)
World's Of Aspen (49)
The Phantom Special (48)
Steampunk Goldilocks (47)
Defend Comics (46)
Lady Justice (45)
Chakra The Invinceable (44)
Cleopatra In Space (43)
Ice Bayou Blackout (42)
Comics Festival (40)
2000 AD Special (33)
Kodansha Comics Sampler (29)

Now onto the list!

38. Overstreet Comic Book Marketplace (35)

I really liked when Bleeding Cool used to release a magazine for FCBD. It had great tidbits, interesting info and lots of great guides. I expected the same from Overstreet as it was high up on my list a couple FCBD's ago but I wasn't able to get it, I heard bad things so it fell on this year's list and now I can safely say that it was well earned criticisms as it was the worst FCBD book I read.

37. Super Mutant Magic Academy/Step Aside Pops (31)

I'm not sure what made me rank this so high pre-FCBD, maybe it was the name and Super Mutant Magic Academy had a few decent moments but overall the story was still poor, add in the awfulness of Step Aside Pops and this really deserves to be at the bottom of this list but Overstreet wasted so much more of my time.

36. The Stuff Of Legend/Thanatos Diver (41)

Thanatos Diver was more than bad but the tweet wouldn't let me fit any more than a 4 letter word. The Stuff Of Legend's set up was amazing I thought to myself "Wow! This is going to be one of the best books this year! But then letterless pages of art, I hate when they give us unscripted art as you will see more of at the bottom of this list.

35. Legendary Comics Sampler (13)

Well here's this year's winner of biggest fall, Legendary fell 22 spots because this book is mostly unlettered. I love anthology books since it gives you a bit of everything but this book gave you a cover and a quick synopsis on the same page and sometimes gives you some art sheets... We did get one comic that was "complete" which allowed Legendary to stay ahead of The Stuff Of Legend

34. Hatter M. Love Of Wonder (20)

This is another book that excited me a lot last year but I missed out on picking it up, the anticipation allowed it to move up on this year's list and unfortunately again I was disappointed. The art was rough to put it lightly and the story was heavily wordy with barely any action sequences, something you don't expect looking at the cover and the synopsis. But hey, lesson learnt.

33. Bob's Burgers (36.)

Not much to expand on here, my girlfriend thinks Bob's Burgers is the cats meow... I was indifferent to it after watching a handful of episodes, and the comic did not change my mind.

32. Avatar/Plants Vs. Zombies/Bandette (34.)

Not much else to say here, all three books left me feeling "meh". I've read more Plants Vs. Zombies than the other two, but even than not much so I didn't really care for any of the characters so you really need to make me like these unknown characters. Dark Horse Comics failed to make me care however.

31. Transformers Robots In Disguise #0 (25.)

The only thing that got this Transformers book ahead of the previous book is for the most part I enjoy Transformers, I'm not in love with them or anything but they're at least fun characters, but when you release an all-ages Transformers book with no action, you're gonna have a bad time!

30. Motorcycle Samurai (38.)

This books art and premise was interesting... But like the tweet says I couldn't decipher if it was good or bad, Motorcycle will have to settle for a passing grade.

29. Tales Of Honor (30.)

It's very hard to write a good sci-fi book with page constraints, more often than not you have to explain all this out-of-this-world technology as well as alien beings, so I can't fault Tales Of Honor for scuffling on a FCBD edition but all said it was a solid, if not a little bit confusing story.

28. Captain Canuck (37.)

Even though one of the ads was for the best comic book store in the world (Big B Comics) I couldn't help but be annoyed, not to mention the classic story was heavy on dialogue... If the ads were replaced by my story this would likely be a Top 25 book, if it was all the modern story it likely would've challenged for a Top 15 slot.

27. Rabbids (23.)

After getting through Rabbids I thought this book had strong potential with The Smurfs and The Garfield Show coming up, although The Smurfs was strong Garfield disappointed and then Ariol was last and bad as usual (you'll remember the last 2 years the Ariol back-up held down great books like The Smurfs and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).

26. Grimm Fairy Tales Wonderland (24.)

I'm not sure why GFT by Zenoscope is ranked so high as I really haven't been impressed with anything else they've released other than Robyn Hood, but even then I just read a short story and haven't jumped into the full length graphic novels, nonetheless Wonderland is middling just like the other Grimm books I've read.

25. JoJo's Bizarre/Yu-Gi-Oh! (12.)

The appeal of this book was always the Yu-Gi-Oh! story, and it was probably one of the top stories this year, what I didn't realise though is that Jojo's Bizarre would be so confusing that it would drag a Yu-Gi-Oh book into the bottom half of this list. I really feel a little bit of back story, like what the hell Jojo's Bizarre is about would've helped, but alas here we are.

24. Street Fighter (22.)

The backup material more than lacked, there was these weird little newspaper snippets that were meant to be funny but just weren't, the main story had me lost at first but then after the second transition I realised what they were going for. It ended up being fun, however the "any given Sunday" ideology has been overused especially when it comes to fighting games.

23. Savage Dragon Legacy (27.)

Similar to Jojo, Savage Dragon had a strong first half with the modern story and then the classic story bored me, the advantage that Savage Dragon had over Jojo is that the good story was over half the book, not the opposite way where the backup is the only good part.

22. Bongo Comics Free-For-All (8.)

In past years most of the all-ages stories let me down but The Simpsons were never among them, they consistently delivered... Until this year, as noted the lead story was strong as usual but give the fact that Bongo gives us a bunch of stories and all the other ones were mediocre or worse.

21. Valiant Anniversary Special (14.)

So X-O Manowar, Valiant's flagship title let me down story-wise and the art in Bloodshot was lacklustre so I really expected to jump on the Valiant bandwagon after this title, but now I'd consider picking up Ninjak and that's about it. Oh well, maybe next year.

20. SpongeBob SquarePants (16.)

I'm a fan of SpongeBob, unfortunately his comics have let me down in the past and although I really did enjoy the stories here the art didn't look anything like the TV show. Not that that's always a bad thing but it is when compared to the art here.

19. Fight Club 2/The Goon/The Strain (7.)

Again, Fight Club 2 rocked my socks. The Goon and The Strain lacked in comparison, well actually they lacked in general but The Strain at least had pretty art, though the story moved slowly causing me to lose interest. But hey at least it still made it into the top half!

18. And Then Emily Was Gone/Oxymoron (17.)

And Then Emily Was Gone had rough art but it did set up the ongoing series pretty well and I'll likely consider jumping into it again at some point but the Oxymoron series has jumped up my list of must reads from ComixTribe.

17. Mercury Heat Debut (39.)

I'm not really a Kieron Gillen fan, I picked up Uber last year and it was one of my bottom books so that hurt Mercury Heat's placing this year but I was so stoked after reading it, the story was great sci-fi action and I'm looking forward to picking up some single issues of this. As mentioned though the end with all the notes from Gillen about how the book came to be with illustrations and world building was a little much, but hey it's still the biggest jumping book going from my 37th ranked book out of the 38 I picked up and here it is at #17.

16. Terrible Lizard (19.)

This was one of the first books I read on Free Comic Book Day, and although I didn't give it a glowing review as I read more I didn't find that many all-ages books outshone this one. I think it is partly because I love Cullen Bunn's writing and this isn't as good as some of his other work I've read.

15. Avengers/Uncanny Inhumans (11.)

I really do like this new Avengers team headlined by Sam Wilson's Captain America and also featuring new faces like the female Thor, Nova and Ms. Marvel. I figured the Inhumans books would get better now that Johnny Storm was going to be showing up following the conclusion of the Fantastic Four books, unfortunately it didn't wow me and left me with the same taste that caused me to stop buying them after Inhumans wrapped up.

14. Jurassic Strike Force 5 (32.)

Too bad that Mercury Heat made such a huge jump, otherwise the honour may have gone to Jurassic Strike Force as it was the 31st ranked book I grabbed but this all-ages book about a bunch of dinos that survived extinction and living underground while still fighting to help mankind can't be too upset with a 17 book jump.

13. Dark Circle Comics (18.)

As you'll see later on the fact that I thought I was getting something and was left without doesn't necessarily make the book a failure right off the bat, but it does make it an uphill battle to get back to neutral ground. Luckily the dark toned Black Hood and it's perfect counter balance in the light hearted The Fox allowed Dark Circle to not only make it back to neutral but get a couple upticks. I'll definitely be grabbing these in trade likely soon.

12. Scooby Doo Team-Up/Teen Titans Go! (15.)

As you'll see as we creep closer to number one, this was a great year for all-ages books. Any other year and this would be among the best of the best but unfortunately this is a strong year and it doesn't even come close to the top 5 all-ages books. I'm really enjoying what I've seen from Teen Titans Go! thus far and Scooby Doo surprised me with a truly great story starring the super friends... Gross.

11. Bodie Troll/Drone/Creature Academy (21.)

Creature Academy which I didn't talk about on twitter was an unspectacular story with decent art but it was the shortest of the three. As mentioned I'm becoming a big Bodie Troll fan between his backup in Atomic Robo last FCBD and his lead story here where he gets drunk! Too bad Drone and Creature Academy held it back just enough to miss the Top 10.

10. Hip-Hop Family Tree/Cosplayers (10.)

I really enjoy the Hip-Hop Family Tree books as they educate me on something I'm interested in but know very little about. Ed Piskor does a great job writing interesting stories about some of hip-hop's greatest talents and then there's the Cosplayers backup... My mom always said not to say anything if I have nothing nice to say.

9. March Grand Prix (26.)

Now this is interesting. Last year Hip-Hop Family Tree was my biggest mover, but in 2nd place was The Adventures of Jellyby, a book I only got because my girlfriend wanted it, well I ended up loving it and now Jellyby writer Kean Soo is back with a new series about animals that race cars and it's even better than Jellyby!

8. Perfect Square Presents Pokemon (9.)

As I mentioned earlier, we'll see books that lied in their synopsis still getting good grades, case and point this book. Pokemon promised a battle between two legendary Pokemon which never happened the X and Y story ended just as someone said it was happening but we never seen it but all 3 stories (Emerald, Black & White and the aforementioned X & Y) were great and may just cause me to read some Pokemon manga soon.

7. Gronk & Friends (28.)

Okay so here's another 21 spot jumper, partly because I underrated, partly because I didn't realise Hero Cats of Stellar City would be included! I love those cats so they're inclusion alone causes a big jump. Not to mention the fact that Gronk was a great story in it's own right, too bad new readers of Hero Cats wouldn't understand their comic since the story is jumbled together from different books so it doesn't make a ton of sense.

6. The Tick (5.)

We're now at the part of the list that doesn't change a lot because they are all known quantities, this was the weakest of the FCBD Tick comics but it's still a great read unfortunately it gets bumped out of the Top 5 due to the strength of the other books that were originally in the top 6 with The Tick.

5. Boom Studios 10th Anniversary Special (6.)

Essentially swapping positions with The Tick, Boom bet that more is better and they were right, even though they had bad books the good outweighed by a large margin. Regular Show continues to be a favourite of mine every FCBD despite not watching the show, in fact I didn't even realise it was a Regular Show comic until I looked at the table of contents. Garfield and Adventure Time was also enjoyable, too bad twitter only allows 140 characters, I can go on for ever.

4. Secret Wars (3.)

This is probably a case where Marvel is setting up a major event so it's assumed to be a spectacle so even when the story isn't as good as we assumed there is still an air of excitement surrounding it. It also helped that that the Avengers/Attack On Titan story was way more fun than I would've ever imagined it to be. I also didn't expect it in the book so I was surprised.

3. Sonic The Hedgehog/Mega Man World's Unite Prelude (4.)

Two major events went to war and World's Unite prevailed. Both sides of this flipbook was a lot of fun and although I seen the connection in Sonic's half to the event, Mega Man seemed like a stand alone story to me but it still definitely worked on it's own.

2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Prelude To Vengeance (1.)

I was really impressed with what TMNT was able to accomplish in such a small book but the IDW series has been impressing me since it's debut so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The only thing and I mean the only thing that kept this out of the top spot was the sheer perfection of the #1 book, this is not a knock against the turtles at all, no, this is when a top seed finally loses a finals match due to overwhelming shots of his opponent.

1. Divergence (2.)

When DC announced this book I figured it wouldn't be anything special, I mean after all I'm already reading Batman and Justice League so I'd just get a sneak peek at their new story lines and I'm not a Superman fan so it was just going to be okay but boy was I shocked. I loved this Superman story... I can't wait to start grabbing the trades! Batman and Justice League even gave me more than I expected which makes Divergence a perfect book and the best pick up this FCBD.

Special: Daredevil Episode 1: Into The Ring Review

The Man Without Fear, previously brought to the big screen courtesy of writer-director Mark Steven Johnson who has been pretty much outed of Hollywood since he unsuccessfully failed to adapt Daredevil and also struck out directing Ghost Rider. Marvel, smartly might I add, moved Daredevil to a TV series, more importantly a Netflix original television series. Season ones thirteen episodes hit Netflix on Friday and here's my review of the very first episode that kicks off Marvel's Netflix slate of shows.

Into The Ring starts off with the classic origin piece as we see a 9 year old Matt Murdoch go blind after a car accident that involved drums of hazardous chemicals. Fast forward some 15 years or so and we have a grown Matt Murdoch in a catholic confessional delving more into his past, mostly his family's past before asking the priest for forgiveness for what he's about to do.

This is where we finally see Daredevil in action as he takes out a bunch of thugs who are trying to grab girls and, presumably, sell them off into sex slavery. The next morning Matt is awoken by his partner at their law firm, they're defence attorney's by the way, Foggy Nelson who was on his way to bribe a cop into getting him a good case, which happens when young Karen Page is found in her apartment holding a bloodied knife over the body of her dead co-worker.

Matt and Foggy decide to take the case as Matt is positive she's innocent and that proves true when the district attorney fails to press charges due to other factors in play at the crime scene. We also begin to see the shadowy underworld of Kingpin begin to unfold as we see people threatened to do their bidding otherwise they're loved ones will be harmed. We also see Karen being attacked in her cell the following morning she gets released and Foggy and Matt take her back to their office to discover why people are looking to have her killed off. It's up to Matt and Foggy to help unravel the mystery that ties Karen to the Kingpin's crew, and when more attempts are made on Karen's life it's up to Daredevil to swoop in and save the day.

Charlie Cox plays Matt Murdoch/Daredevil and he does a fine job. Cox first came to my attention in the criminally under seen Scottish film Stone Of Destiny which also starred Kate Mara (Sue Storm in this summer's Fantastic Four). He followed that up with award winning roles in Boardwalk Empire in this past year's Oscar darling The Theory Of Everything. He brings out the wit and the slyness that Murdoch is supposed to bring to the table while still looking the part of a kick-ass vigilante when he puts on the mask, which is really just a hat at this point.

Karen Page is played by Deborah Ann Woll who I guess was in True Blood, but she's a new face to me. She's not given a whole lot to do here as in the first episode she's essentially just playing the victim, but by the end of the episode you can see that her character has a lot more growing to do and she seems up to the challenge. Which brings us to Foggy Nelson, played by Elden Henson who will always by Fulton Reed, of Mighty Ducks fame, to me. He's the comedic relief here as he's equal parts sarcastic, funny and a bit of an ass but he's given the most to do in the first episode and he's clearly going to be the fan favourite going forwards.

The action sequences, all two of them, are stylishly done and the dark setting and tone of the script adds to the excitement, even if sometimes you're left wondering if Daredevil kicked a guy in the face or fireman carried him onto the sidewalk. Episode one mostly dealt with building the world of Daredevil, it gives you an idea of what Hell's Kitchen is like and why are characters have to do the things they do but it moves along at a brisk enough pace to keep you interested and the characters are fascinating enough to keep you coming back and the action will keep coming as we move along the first season.

In short, Daredevil on Netflix is certainly worth your time. You'll come for the Marvel name, but you'll want to stay for the character's journey and the story crafted by Drew Goddard (World War Z, The Cabin In The Woods).

Special: The Flash Volume 1: Move Forward Review

Hello kids and welcome back to your regular scheduled Sunday Special where I talk about whatever I feel like really, and this week to celebrate Easter we're going to review The Flash Volume 1: Move Forward. What this has to do with Easter I do not know but in any event it's happening... But first I'm sure you want to know how the bracket turned out.

So congratulations to Supernatural for winning this 2nd annual event, as for the rest of the entrants there is always next year... Onto The Flash!

Move Forward was The New 52 relaunch of The Flash in September 2011 and it quickly (heh) gained traction as one of The New 52 bright spots alongside titles like Batman, Swamp Thing, Batwoman and Aquaman. Move Forward starts off supposedly 5 years after Barry Allen became The Flash and all is going well as he's out on a date with his co-worker Patty when trouble happens. Quickly The Flash jumps into action and takes on this apparent military-esque unit and retrieves a portable genome re-coder and return it to it's rightful owner Dr. Elias. Though during the retrieval he sent one of the military men through a plate glass window and turns out he died.

When Barry gets to the scene of the accident there are questions as to whether or not The Flash was responsible for his death or if it was something else entirely, more shocking is the deceased is one of Barry's oldest friends, Manuel Lago. The plot thickens when later on Manuel appears at Barry's apartment and the two get chased by the same military folk as before. Barry of course checks out and The Flash enters the fray and that's when things get weird. Turns out the military folk that have captured Manuel by this point are Manuel... Every single one of them.

The Flash is subdued and The Manuel who call themselves Mob Rule grabbed Manuel and ran. With the help of Iris West, a reporter friend of Barry's, Barry is able to start piecing the puzzle together. Turns out Manuel was an army experiment and was given regeneration cell's. Unfortunately Manuel was captured and tortured repeatedly. They cut off all his limbs only to see them grow back, so they kept him there for weeks repeatedly cutting off hands and feet. After a while, the severed limbs regenerated themselves and become clones of Manuel, thus allowing Manuel to escape his torturers.

The only problem with these clones was they had a set life cycle, after a while they just expire. That's why Mob Rule wants him back they need to run tests on his genetic code to find out how to get his code into their bodies. There's also another problem The Flash has to deal with, there's a blackout throughout the Gem Cities so he's torn between helping his friend, doing his police duty and helping out during the blackout as the citizens have gone mad and finding out what's happening with the speed force since he's started using the speed force in his brain odd things have been happening.

With the help of Dr. Elias he realises that the more he uses the speed force the more likely he is to rip apart time and space as we know it and create worm holes. We also discover that this was the source of the blackout, not Mob Rule. Eventually Mob Rule enlist the help of Dr. Elias to allow them to survive and The Flash is upset to find this out but he must do what he can to help his friend.

Following the Mob Rule arc the rest of this book is filled out with three chapters that are not stand-alone and do not conclude themselves making this an odd way to break-up the story. First off we see Captain Cold trying to kill The Flash, it turns out that Cold's sister was sick in the hospital when the blackout came and she was unable to get the medical attention she needed without power and was likely going to die at any time. During his fight with Cold the boat his girlfriend Patty and his friend Iris was on split in half and Barry is getting dangerously close to hitting critical mass on the speed force which would open up a worm hole. After saving Patty and others from their side of the ship, which was falling, a wormhole opened up over the other side of the boat and Iris and others were sucked in the wormhole.

The Flash meets back up with Dr. Elias who gives him a giant treadmill he can use to expel the speed force that is at critical mass, best of all the power generated can be used to get the city back online. The Flash neglected to tell the Dr. however that his plan was to open up another wormhole and run through it in order to find Iris and the others and save them but upon making it through the wormhole he's met by Turbine, a WWII fighter pilot who has been stuck in the wormhole, which is really the inside of the speed force FYI. Turbine wants to go home and will fight The Flash every step of the way if he refuses to take him back to 1944.

Writers Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato craft an intriguing story that although can be predictable at times, moves in a nice steady manner throughout. Although I had complaints about the collection of the book it was more that it ended abruptly and was collected badly than the fat the story didn't read well. If I had volume 2 in hand I'm sure this wouldn't be a problem but I don't so it's problematic. For example there are nods to Gorilla Grodd's origins but only a couple pages, by looking at the collection titles looks like we won't really see Grodd until volume 3 so why bother?

By far the best thing about this book though was Manapul's art. It's perfect from the layouts to the character designs to the panelling. What this book did more than anything was get me excited to get to the Detective Comics run that Manapul and Buccellato were on. DC was so impressed with their run on The Flash they gave them their flagship title. If that doesn't say enough about this Flash run, I don't know what will.

Score: 8 Speed rings out of 10