As the Flash continues to explore the Gallery, he meets a living entity called the Resident that he feels drawn to. Can she aid him in his battle against the Folding Man...and even if she can, does she want to? Meanwhile, Mirror Master returns, unveiling even more upgrades since we last saw him in The Flash #800--but he's not the only one with new powers, as Irey Thunderheart West is eager to show the world. Also, the Stillness decide to act upon humanity as the new chapter for the Flash Family continues!
The Flash #4 is incredible. This whole series is absolutely unique, taking not just the Flash to another level but the whole superhero genre in general. Using Irey grounds the comic, providing both a tether to bring Wally back home and, as an adventurer herself, running off into danger. Read Full Review
The Flash #4 continues the fantastic world building of the previous issues while also establishing a firm connection to the previous run. Read Full Review
This continues to be the strangest book at DC right now, taking a concept that was previously light, breezy, and above all FAST and turning it into a melancholy musing on what it takes to be a superhero and a family man and combining it with hard-sci-fi concepts. It's also turning into a pretty good book, or at least a fascinating one. Read Full Review
It's an excellent continuation of the ideas introduced in this new volume's introductory issues and one that suggests The Flash is prepared to run a long and satisfying race as it explores these concepts. Read Full Review
The Flash #4 is the most coherent issue in a largely muddled and incoherent run by Spurrier. Unfortunately, Spurrier introduced too many underdeveloped ideas at the beginning of this run, so nearly all of it has to be ignored just to find a plot buried under the chaos. Issue #4 is better but not great. Read Full Review
Best issue by a mile, as I didn’t care for the first three. This one feels like a massive course correction by Spurrier, so perhaps he was reading feedback from fans and seeing the sales start to drop while he wrote this issue. The Mirror Master/Irey/Jesse plot is intriguing, and Wally’s detour into his own personal “Nexus” within the Speed Force also was interesting. Hopefully Spurrier has realized he needs to dial way back on the metaphysical scientific mumbo jumbo and just focus on telling a good coherent story with the characters we love, and perhaps take some cues from what worked for Jeremy Adams.
Maybe there’s a light shining in this tunnel…
Art is great and really fits the feel. I would probably hate this art is most other stories but it really fits this trippy storyline. Now that being said, this issue had great atmosphere but not much else. It felt like everything was moving really slow in the stillness and normal paced outside so that was good. Otherwise it sort of meandered and we really didnt get a lot in this issue. It was just sort of was. Irey was written... ok. Not great, not bad. Ok.
That is what this issue felt like "ok" with great art.
feels like Simon spurrier must be on mushrooms because this story got super complicated and cosmic. Art looks good though
This one was just really weird, in my opinion. I wouldn't call this issue bad, but I also felt as though it was a bit too complicated for my liking. Don't get me wrong, I like and appreciate when a comic is complex, but this is a different level to the point where it's just confusing at times. I will say that I did enjoy Deodato Jr.'s art a good amount. I just wish Spurrier's story made a little more sense.
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