I have been a fan of Williamson's run on The Flash, it has given us some powerful stories. Even though I hate the fact that DC has killed off Wally, it has led to some truly great stories as Barry, Iris, and other DC characters learn to cope with this tragedy. However, I do hope that Barry gets through this rough patch in his life and we get to see some happy stories as well. Read Full Review

THE FLASH #65 is a must read if you're at all interested in Barry Allen. It sets the stage for future issues of this book. It ends "The Price" in a fantastic but grim finale. Joshua Williamson is at the top of his game with this book. Rafa Sandoval has some beautiful double-page spreads in this book, as well. Read Full Review

The finale to "The Price" crossover with Batman is full of surprises, but perhaps the biggest is the levels of introversion Joshua Williamson weaves into the majority of this issue. Read Full Review

Rafa Sandoval's art is energetic, detailed and amazing. There are so many dramatic and beautiful panels throughout with the standouts being the fight to save Gotham Girl and the final confrontation between Barry and Bruce. Read Full Review

This years big focus seems like The Year of the Villain so thats not likely to change anytime soon. Williamson does some captivating teases for this event and how it could hopefully get the heroes back on the same page. For now Im just curious where Williamson is going to take The Flash going forward with this major change to the status quo. Read Full Review

Rafa Sandoval is the perfect artist for this book. I hope he comes back. He works great with Williamson. This was a nice crossover between both of the books. The creative team really rocked it. I would like a lot more of the crossovers between books done just like this. It was a good time for sure. Read Full Review

I always enjoyed it when Batman and Superman got along together, so it took some time for me to adjust to the World's Finest duo fussing and fuming against each other. Now that this has taken hold, it's not much of a jump to buy into Batman and the Flash having their own troubles. Read Full Review

The Price arc comes to a conclusion with The Flash and Batman at each other's throats. Read Full Review

Emotional and energetic, The Flash #65 provides a fitting conclusion to a well-crafted crossover arc. Read Full Review

In the end, this issue was mostly able to make up for the first three issues of the story having severe pacing issues, if only because Williamson was able to stick his landing and tie everything together nicely. Yes, the arc as a whole does come off as just a tie-in to the Heroes In Crisis event, but its conclusion manages to majorly affect the status quo of Flashs life for the foreseeable future, and it hints at some exciting things to come in the near future for the DC universe. Read Full Review

A bleak issue, a depressing end to the Batman crossover, and a profoundly dark chapter in The Flash's recent history, The Flash #65 can at least boast strong characterization by writer Joshua Williamson and beautiful art by Rafa Sandoval, Jordi Tarragona, and Tomeu Morey to get the reader through. Read Full Review

This crossover has been entertaining and imaginative without running the body count up any higher, something I know I appreciate. Read Full Review

Williamson lands with a decent finish to this 4 parter. With gorgeous art and intense conflict, the second Flash/Batman crossover continues to prove to be a charm. Read Full Review

The Flash #65 was a major step up from recent issues of "The Price" crossover. It was disappointing how Gotham Girl turned out to be a plot device to push a major fallout between Batman and Flash. Luckily the confrontation between Batman and Flash in the Batcave and Iris West's role in this story made up for negatives involving Gotham Girl. Read Full Review

The Price finale finally brings some weight to the issues that our heroes have been dealing with recently and that is exactly what has been missing from this crossover from the beginning. It's a shame it took so long to get here but thankfully, we did get here. This issue is emotionally charged with enough action to entertain the casual fan as well. Read Full Review

Great art and two big superhero fights makes this quite entertaining. There's also a heartfelt message worth a look delving into the solitary life of a superhero. Unfortunately, though there aren't many answers in a story arc that teased many questions. Read Full Review

As I said before, this whole story is just exploitative. Pure and simple. An issue's worth of story has been accomplished in four, and I'm not even sure when we'll see the ramifications of this issue. The art was simply phenomenal, which certainly helped things. Read Full Review

So far, I've been a bigger fan of the spin-off arc "The Price of Justice" than I have been of parent event Heroes in Crisis. That reverses with Flash #65, which brings the story home and doesn't feel like it accomplishes much beyond making the DCU a sadder place. Read Full Review

Overall, this issue is underwhelming and far weaker than the sum of its parts. The good parts, however, deserve consideration on their own merits. Read Full Review

"The Price" concludes with little more than a whisper inThe Flash #65.You'll now be returned to your regular scheduled programming. Read Full Review

Unfortunately, the conclusion to “The Price” is clunky and awkward. The main thrust ends way too soon and the latter half feels like it is loitering around. It also has no definitive conclusion. It is a disappointing ending to an overall fun crossover storyline. Read Full Review

Though it contains a few nice character interactions, The Price ends much as did The Button " without progressing much forward or saying anything particularly interesting about its characters. Read Full Review

"The Price" is nothing more than wasted real estate. DC had a great opportunity to tell a gripping story and showcase two of the universe's best detectives working together to uncover a mystery while also coming to terms with the loss of loved ones. Instead, we got bickering and shallow drama in an inconsistent, incoherent story. Read Full Review

It is very good to see Barry standing up like a man a little bit.

Very nice story and great art.

I fast-tracked "The Price" on my review schedule after reading the first installment and thoroughly enjoying it. I also picked up a new favorite writer along the way in Joshua Williamson. I'd only reviewed one issue of Flash prior to this arc so I don't have any deep knowledge of anything happening in that title.

This time around we get a decent issue and closeout chapter. The Price of Loyalty isn't quite as strong as previous installments but closes the loop on the event and ties back to Heroes in Crisis even though it really doesn't feel like a tie-in other than references to "Sanctuary" here and there.

The bulk of the comic covers the rapidly escalating fight between Batman, Flash, and Gotham Girl. Batman and Flash desperately attempt to talk Gotham Girl down before she burns herself out and dies due to overuse of her powers.

This is a pretty rough scenario but about midway, through the issue, the fight just ends. The story transitions to a very intense argument between Bruce and Barry which boils down to an ideological debate regarding the accountability they share toward their families and the heroes that fight in their names.

Both characters have a seemingly ever-expanding extended family so it makes sense that these particular characters would be having this discussion. They both make valid points along the way to the conclusion of the issue. The problem is that the voices the characters have in this segment feel hollow.

Bruce and Barry have both suffered extreme losses. The price is that wearing the tights or the cowl doesn't shield those around you its something you'd think this would be an aspect of their lives that would lead to common ground. The problem here is that they basically end up yelling at each other and go to their corners. It's a huge letdown that undermines the overarching theme of the crossover. I can't criticize the issue too harshly though It handles its story a lot better than Heroes in Crisis ever did.

Aside from the nick picks here and there the series looks great, reads well, and aside from an ending that doesn't quite land the story advances the ongoing stories for both heroes that's worth checking out even if you aren't following either hero currently.


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I can understand how things ends for Flash and how this could be a new point of view to write this character. But aside his fight with Batman I can not see a perfect ending for this crossover. It seems more like an introduction for what is to come. At the end there are no clear answers and I don't know I guess Tom King has any plan for Gotham Girl. The art is amazing and the issue has incredible panels.

This crossover was quite a fun read, even if it felt pointless.

Gotham Girl is the least interesting character that has came out in the last 10 years.

Finally, this event ended and we can leave it behind, forget about it. Because in the end of the day, there's hardly anything significant that happened on its pages. I wish it was different - that it have added some depth to the character of Gotham Girl, fleshed her out. But nope, the entire event is practically a filler arc constructed from Tom King's scraps and leftovers, desperately trying to promote bigger and significantly worse Heroes in Crisis.

For a filler, though, it's not as bad as many could think - in fact, it's tolerable. The art is beautiful, especially on spreads - just take a look at angry Flash's fist close to Batman's face, with fabric bending and shadows popping up from the page - it's beautiful. Too bad it was wasted in such an uninspired story. more

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myconius - Feb 28, 2019

i've decided to not even to bother reading this conclusion. ...tbh i've already forgotten the first three parts of the cross-over anyway.

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I wish I could score this higher. I liked how this crossover started.
I just don't like how it resolved at all.

"What happened to the Barry Allen who was always hopeful and optimistic?"

That's the question I ask myself for some time now.

With the exception of part 2, where I liked how Batman and Flash's relationship was shown, this crossover was greatly unfocused. It couldn't decide which way to go. Is it about their relationship and the strain HiC puts on it? Is it about Gotham Girl and the mysterious person behind her? Or is it maybe meant to set up some new mystery that will be explored this year? Which one is it? Please, decide next time, so we won't end up with an event that does not provide any satisfactory answer to any of the questions posed.

What makes this issue even worse is another installment of the "Heroes can't be happy" bull*hit (with Iris leaving Barry) and continuation of Barry and Bruce's pity party ("our lives hurt our loved ones blah blah blah"; "this is my fault blah blah blah").
Can we, please, choose the route where the hero, instead of wallowing in their self-pity for a couple of issues, thinks about the problem and then springs to action to solve it?

The art was good though. Very, very good. more

Well that’s it, that’s the conclusion of the 4 issue crossover. The battle with Claire was short, maybe a bit too short. All to lead up to Iris going frantic towards Barry and Bruce. Iris hears Barry mentioning Wally when he’s trying to save Claire’s life and that must have triggered her. She goes off on Bruce but really why does he get all the blame. I get that Heros isn’t Williamson’s story but why is everyone taking their anger out on him. We see Barry and Bruce back at the Cave still hashing it out going their own way while Barry and Iris go on a break that didn’t mind it. Overall for the story, it’s eh. Curious to see what’s next for them. Art was amazing!

"I'm glad the drama between Flash and Batman isn't going to be a lasting thing", I said. WELL...

Sigh. It's not bad. Art is nice, writing is somewhat okay. But this ending was still pretty meh. And since we got anoter crossover coming soon, I have no interest in it.

My grodd, Heroes in Crisis ruined this too...

The resolution was basically nothing and the emotional stakes are lame.

Didn't like this. Nothing much was accomplished here. Iris going away means nothing to me. The epilogue made me roll my eyes.

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Darkseid24 - Mar 1, 2019

It’s better dialogue than the mess King wrote in HIC this week.

Amazing Psycamorean - Mar 1, 2019

Hardly.

Darkseid24 - Mar 2, 2019

Way better. Kings dialogue is often unreadable

Amazing Psycamorean - Mar 2, 2019

I think Williamson is just as bad a writer as King. Just in different ways. Including dialogue. King's dialogue is short and repetitive while Williamson's dialogue is bland and often being held down by exposition.

Darkseid24 - Mar 2, 2019

Judging from what I’ve read so far from Williamson I’d say he’s better. His portrayal of Darkseid in JL Odyssey is the best since New52 started& Kings Batman stories sometimes are awful to read. I don’t get why he can’t write good dialogue.

Amazing Psycamorean - Mar 2, 2019

It's that I don't like his dialogue

Darkseid24 - Mar 2, 2019

That’s ok. I see it as an improvement from King.

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Button 2 indeed. Nothing interesting or compelling. Gotham Girl shoul die. It would be so much better.