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Flash and green lantern movie8/12/2023 ![]() Kitson’s faces can be kind of same-y, but his figure work is solid, and he’s a very good storyteller. Kitson is a pretty strong superhero artist, and Grindberg’s fill-in issue evoked Neal Adams really well. The quick transitions left a lot on the table at the end of a couple of these chapters. There were also a few pretty decent ideas that may have benefitted from a longer story than they were each allotted. If there had a throughline, both with an antagonist and a theme, I really think overall an okay story would have been a lot better.īrendan: Sure. I think the issue teaming Barry and Hal with their golden age counterparts was one of the better issues of the collection, and the final issue was pretty decent. Tony: Yeah, with a few exceptions, I completely agree with you. ![]() You could substitute almost any superheroes into these pages, and it wouldn’t change the story much. I didn’t learn anything about any of these Flashes or Lanterns. With all these little self contained stories, there really isn’t any room for character development. There is literally nothing connecting any of the chapters to each other, except for the lead character’s presence. I had to go back and make sure I was reading the right book for this week, because each chapter reads like a one-shot. It also did a really solid job of showing us the characters as human beings and not super-powered props in their stories (a big problem of DC’s in the Silver Age).īrendan: I’m glad you brought up the lack of cohesion. ![]() Though it was heavily continuity based, I never felt like I needed to know classic DC continuity. Though I wish this story had a bit more of a throughline, I liked it for what it was. LITERALLY every other Green Lantern is more interesting than Hal. I’m a big Flash fan (no matter which version) but NOT much of a fan of Hal Jordan. This is a book I’ve wanted to check out for a very long time. Tony: Yeah, it was going for a very specific feel and it unfortunately made the book feel straight out of the 60’s. First, I’m not a superfan of the capes and tights, and this is a VERY dated book. It’s barely modernized at all, even to 1999 standards.īrendan Allen: A couple things are going on here for me. I think this one was a much stronger story but it is VERY silver age. It’s a prime example of stories aging poorly. Tony Thornley: This is not our first Waid DC story, and frankly that one didn’t go well.
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