Not a real fan. Guess you don't like The Flash and what this issue means to the Scarlet Speedster.
Dark Nights: Death Metal: Speed Metal #1
| Writer | Joshua Williamson |
| Artist | Eddy Barrows |
| Cover Price | $5.99 |
It's the drag race from hell in this one-shot tie-in to Dark Nights: Death Metal! Taking place after the events of Dark Nights: Death Metal #3, the Darkest Knight is after Wally West and his Dr. Manhattan powers. Thankfully, Wally has backup in the form of Barry Allen, Jay Garrick, and Wallace West! It's a knockdown, drag-out race through the Wastelands as the Flash Family tries to stay steps ahead of the Darkest Knight and his Lightning Knights!
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Lyles Movie Files - Jeffrey Lyles
Sep 22, 2020Don't miss this issue as it's a key Death Metal issue and a tremendous read for Flash fans. Read Full Review
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But Why Tho? - CJ
Sep 22, 2020Dark Nights: Death Metal-Speed Metal #1 is the perfect love letter to Wally West, and a great stand alone tale that readers who aren't invested in the Death Metal story can enjoy. Flash fans definitely have to pick this book up. Read Full Review
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Impulse Gamer - Andrew Bistak
Sep 22, 2020All in all, Dark Knights Death Metal Speed Metal #1 was a spectacular issue thanks to writer Joshua Williamson with some stunning art by Eddy Barrows. Williamson successfully returns The Flash family to the DCU (hopefully) and Barrows brings it all to life. There's also a great moment between Wally and Barry in an almost passing of the torch scene. Definitely one for Flash fans and is a great side book of Dark Knights Death Metal! Read Full Review
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Dark Knight News - Steve J Ray
Sep 24, 2020If you're a Flash fan, a DC fan, or a comics fan in general...heck even if you're not, I highly recommend picking up this comic. Read Full Review
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DC Comics News - Derek McNeil
Sep 25, 2020Dark Nights: Death Metal Speed Metal #1 was a beautiful epilogue to Williamson's epic Flash saga. While "Finish Line" nicely finished off his Barry Allen story, Speed Metal brought that story full circle. Williamson's epic tale both begins and ends with a focus on the strong bond of friendship between Wally and Barry. As a fan of Williamson's run on The Flash, this week has made me extremely happy, but also saddened that he has reached the end of his time as caretaker of the Flash mythos. Read Full Review
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9.6
Forces Of Geek - Lenny Schwartz
Sep 23, 2020The last page is simply awesome. This is the perfect place for Wally to be. It's great. Read Full Review
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Geek Dad - Ray Goldfield
Sep 22, 2020It's a two-for-one Flash-fest by Josh Williamson this week, as he says goodbye to his extended run on the main book and writes this oversized Death Metal tie-in. So does he have anything else to say on the Flash Family? It turns out the answer is yes, as he hasn't been able to give Wally West the focus " until now. Read Full Review
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Newsarama - Oscar Maltby
Sep 22, 2020Dark Nights: Death Metal: Speed Metal #1 ultimately ends on a win for the good guys, balancing out the unrelenting bleakness of Trinity Crisis and offering at least a little hope as we move ever closer to October's Death Metal #4. This is a tidy little one-shot that mostly serves as a celebration of all things Flash and adds an important building block to the overarching Death Metal fortress. There is an emotional buy-in to the Flash necessary to enjoy this at its fullest, but there's enough eye candy here for anyone invested in Death Metal to enjoy. An essential for Flash fans. Read Full Review
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Monkeys Fighting Robots - Matthew Brake
Sep 22, 2020The Flashes outrun the Darkest Knight, and Wally West reminds everyone that he is still worthy of being The Flash! Read Full Review
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AIPT - David Brooke
Sep 22, 2020Dark Nights: Death Metal Speed Metal is another good one-shot in an event that has taken a month off to let side stories percolate. Speed Metal is a wholesome superhero tale with a believable Flash family capable of defeating the worst evil imaginable. Read Full Review
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GWW - Nick Friar
Sep 22, 2020Still an important read with a good Wally-Barry dynamic. But, the aforementioned issue didn't sit well with me. Read Full Review
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ComicBook.com - Jenna Anderson
Sep 23, 2020The art from Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira keeps the energy you'd expect from a Flash book, but gives it a bodacious, rock-and-roll flair. Wally West fans"and fans of just good comic storytelling"won't want to miss this. Read Full Review
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8.0
Multiversity Comics - Gregory Ellner
Sep 29, 2020Despite being part of a far larger story, 'Speed Metal' shows the heart in the development of the Flash family's post-Rebirth status quo. Read Full Review
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7.7
Comic Watch - Matt Meyer
Sep 22, 2020Dark Nights: Death Metal - Speed Metal #1 isn't the most jaw-dropping comic you'll ever read, but it's a meat-and-potatoes race against time that at last brings Wally West's Rebirth-era comeback to a satisfying conclusion. Flash fans, you dare not miss this comic! Read Full Review
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7.0
Weird Science - Eric Shea
Sep 22, 2020The Flash Family are on the run of their lives and that's what they're going to do here...... run back and forth to achieve their goals, while arguing about what their goals are, but eventually they're going to find their footing and they're going to be who they should have been throughout this story, instead of having drama that seemed unwarranted for the time and place. This is a mixed bag of a story for me, but the art looks great throughout and the story feels important so ultimately if you're a Flash fan and a Death Metal fan you'll want to check this out. Read Full Review
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6.3
Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson
Sep 26, 2020This issue works on an emotional level, and I'm happy to see them trying to return Wally West's Flash to a place of prominence, but it's one long high-speed chase without a lot of context. It's good to see characters like Jay and Max again, but there's not a lot of heft to the issue. Read Full Review
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5.5
Batman-News - Nicholas Finch
Sep 23, 2020If there's anything I've said in this review that was inaccurate, I am happy to defer to the knowledge of those heavily invested in Williamson's Flash saga. I am only able to review this as a casual reader: one who is familiar with everything in Death Metal, but less so with some character arcs operating at the fringes. As it stands, it's perfectly readable, and might have greater value for those with more of a stake in the story! Hell, even I might like this more if I come back to it in the future. For now, however, I remain worried about if the promises of this issue hold any weight: or if, like Rebirth, they're unable to make it to the finish line. Read Full Review
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Williamson is on fire!!!
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Im not really a fan of reviewing single issues, they dont do it for me. Yet this book has a special place in my heart restores wally west to the spotlight
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Im not as bug a Wally fan as some others.... Ive always liked Barry and Wally in mostly equal measure. Mostly. But this?? How can you not b a Wally fan after this! Absolutely awesome issue here. Pure comic goodness. Highly recommended
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This is for Wally West fans.It may feels like a filler issue but it is a good one.
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" Hey batman who tries too hard. Too slow." - FLASH (WALLY WEST)
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This was just great. Eddy Barrows is a pretty good artist that has some janky faces every once in a while but I was happy to see him on this book. I've never really seen him do any of the speedsters so it was pretty cool. As much as I don't like, "let's go faster then ever before!" from the speedsters it did have somewhat of a purpose and weight to it here in outrunning the Darkest Knight and the zombie Dark Multiverse speedsters. Seeing Barry accept Wally as his own person again was great but it should have been done years ago or never undone. Barry is milquetoast. Wally is all of the personality and growth that people know the Flash for. His entire Flash Family and Rogues stemmed from Wally's time with the Flash, not Barry. I'm glad Wally more
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8.5
These tie-ins are continuously getting better and better for Death Metal. This made extra special as Williamson's last note on Wally West and his legacy after his final run on Flash. What Williamson does so well is recapping about 3 years of Wally West within three pages, and not making it boring. Art by Barrows is amazing, seriously wow, Death Metal has some fantastic artists working on their books, clean, detailed linework dazzled with a sense of energy rippling off the pages, which is perfect for a Flash centric book. Some of the best Flash artwork I have seen so far. This is just a great dichotomy between Wally and Barry, and how Barry takes the Flash legacy and modify it to better represent the Flash and how he now is his own being more
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8.5
While I've been critical of Death Metal, this was a very good issue. Nice art and writing for Wally made it good. And BWL felt actually intimidating.
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8.0
Eddy Barrows holy shit! This was Williamson's week. Two great Flash books filled to the brim with fan service and wholesomeness.
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This was a good read. The art looked good and the story surprisingly had some heart to it. I thought it was really interesting and inspired hope for the heroes in metal.
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Just a bizarre take on how far can the speed force be exploited. The level of artwork is massive
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6.0
Tbh I'm completely here for Wally calling him the Batman Who Tries Too Hard.
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I'm very ambivalent about this issue. There were plenty of good moments, but they're clothed in less than stellar writing and overall, just the overwhelming albatross that is Death Metal.
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4.5
another garbage from Joshua williamson.
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4.0
Speed Metal is a tie-in to Death Metal. The story focuses on the Flash family, specifically Barry Wally Jay Wallace and Wally as the focus of the issue. There are some cool scenes that emphasise the dichotomy between Barry and Wally which was good. It follows the same character beat repeated a lot in Wally stories of him living inside the Flash's shadow and some nostalgia of Wally reuniting with his old family and wearing his 90s costume. It's a solid issue, this one has been the first in Death metal event that I managed to get through without cringing. However, the way Wally stans hype up this issue you'd think it's one of the best issues of all time.
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It is implausible they have the chair that practically turns you into a god and they cannot against the most boring villain who is the son of the Joker and Batman as if there were nothing else. Really the Batman that Rie is the most foolish villain that has been created, they put so many far-fetched, surrealistic things that tire. And this was definitely a plagiarism to Games of Thrones and Fast and Furious but worse, because there are no dragons, there is no action they just run, in a word boring.
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