As the featured villain of the next big arc, Trickster's backstory is important and Williamson and Kollins deliver a terrific spotlight on one of the classic Rogues. Read Full Review

This was one of my personal favorites when it comes to DC comic book stories in the past year. Joshua Williamson really excels at plumbing the emotional depths of characters as he does here when flushing out The Tricksters origins as an abused child. I highly recommend this story to anyone interested in The Flash and who appreciates stories that could be useful for children to read, as well. Read Full Review

THE FLASH #65 focuses not on the titular character, but on an oft-overlooked one -- the original Trickster. Joshua Williamson fills the issue with moments that make you both pity and scorn the villain. Scott Kolins fills the issue with incredibly detailed art. Read Full Review

Scott Kolins' art is fine, but the subject doesn't really allow for anything particularly interesting to see in the panels. That and Trickster is too clownish a character to depict as anything interesting or menacing. Read Full Review

Williamson and Kolins actually make a great creative team. I hope we get more issues from the two of them. It's a solid comic book about a villain that you forgot about but who is absolutely viable. The creative team more than does him justice here. Read Full Review

A compelling Trickster origin that elevates a stale character to new heights. Read Full Review

I'm not sure this sold me entirely on Trickster 1.0 as a serious villain, especially as I grew up with the more sympathetic version. But I'm along for the ride. Read Full Review

This issue's expansion on the Trickster's classic Silver Age origin, while building him into a major foe to challenge the Barry in the next story arc. Williamson has certainly got me wondering what shenanigans James Jesse has in store for the Flash. Read Full Review

It's not perfect, but it's a great introduction to The Trickster and a wonderful one-shot to get your feet wet if you have yet to give the current The Flash series a try. Read Full Review

A fun and thought-provoking origin! Read Full Review

Great art and a solid story sell some iffy dialogue really well. Read Full Review

Given the jumbled nature of his central high concept, there’s a reason why the Trickster probably isn’t anyone’s favorite Flash villain — but that doesn’t mean Joshua Williamson and Scott Kolins aren’t working hard to give the character an emotional core underneath all those weird accoutrements. While streamlining the character further might have resulted in a more straightforward and engaging read, Williamson is also leaving a lot of different avenues for himself to pick up later on by refusing to shy away from the inconsistencies in James Jesse’s life. And given that he’s teaming up with a seminal Flash artist, there are worse ways for this creative team to taken a crack at the trickiest of Barry Allen’s bad guys. Read Full Review

The Flashcontinues to plod along under Williamson's direction. What started out as a run full of promise and excitement has fallen to the depths of a truly forgettable experience, which is, I would say, better than being remembered for being terrible. Read Full Review

While the character of James Jesse is intriguing, the origin presented here is rather dull. Read Full Review

While this may set up the coming storyline surrounding Trickster, I personally found this issue to be a little dull. It wasn't horrible or anything and maybe some of this stuff will be relevant in the coming story but, until that happens, I kind of feel like we could have just started the storyline that we have waiting. Read Full Review

"The Flash" #66 feels like an assembly line production from a factory that manufactures generic origin stories. Read Full Review

Very well written issue by Williamson with some amazing pencil work by Kolins. Awesome to see James Jesse not only back in action but giving him much needed depth. I totally read this story in Mark Hamill's voice as an added bonus!

Hey! A Flash issue that I've actually enjoyed!

I don't know a whole lot about James Jesse, but I dug this.

This issue doesn’t move along the story at all, it’s just a filler. We went a whole month without continuing our previous story and we return to a filler issue?! Easily could have cut in half. What was the angle they were going for with the background information? Because it was all a trick for the audience, he wasn’t afraid of heights, and his parents didn’t hate him as much as it seemed. So the angle of making ya feel bad for him and see where he is coming from is out the window. The art is alright.

I guess this wasn't atrocious... I mean, I was bored, and it completely ruined the pace of my reading today... But I didn't absolutely hate it. I do think the backstory is a bit stupid. All these reviews saying it gives James Jesse depth are wrong. It's all a trick, which could've been something cool by a better writer, but it feels like a waste here.

“Hey I have a great idea for an issue. Let’s take the original Trickster, yeah, and give him pretty much the same backstory as he had before, but change it juuuuuuust slightly so he kinda sucks? Make him dumber, yeah, that’s perfect. And definitely make it so he sucks so much that literally everybody has completely forgotten about him and never mentions him after he’s been gone for like five years tops. Yeah. That’s how you know a dude is badass. Expert retcon.”