The Flash #6 ends the first arc with a bang, answering some questions while opening the door to others. The plot only thickens from here and The Flash has never been better than this. Read Full Review

The end of this issue makes a lot of things clearer and gives us our first clear look at the main villain of the run, and the art by Mike Deodato continues to be incredibly surreal and creepy. But ultimately, Spurrier is doing a lot here, and trying to fuse two tastes that go great on their own, but don't always go great together. It's the most experimental DC run I've seen in a while. Read Full Review

The Flash #6 celebrates confusion. The book is at an impasse. Spurrier is telling a cosmic horror story within the confines of the forces that control the Flash. And while reading it is mesmerising, comprehension of what is happening is on the verge of slipping away. Read Full Review

There's a lot of potential in prior issues, but none of it is drawn together in The Flash #6, a detour without much purpose. Read Full Review

The Flash #6 takes a significant step toward answering the mountains of odd mysteries by revealing the mastermind behind Flash's reality-warping troubles. Unfortunately, the answer is almost surprising in just how unsurprising it is, which makes all the complicated storytelling to get to this point seem pointless. Read Full Review

The whole series is completely overwhelming and underwhelming.

This had potential but sadly......

The story had started to recover the last few issues and gained some coherence, but with this issue, it reverts back to a lot of head-scratching. We are a half-year into this story and I’m feeling like I barely know anything more about the plot than when it started. Spurrier should not be writing this book, as this cosmic-horror take on the characters just isn’t working…and the sales of the book reflect that.

With this issue I drop reading this (or at least paying anything near cost for this, if I can grab a copy from a friend who dumps it then I guess I would continue reading for the rage read).

This run has fully jumped the shark. This issue was just a bunch of stolen previous ideas (like the flash wars), mis-characterizations and the plot was just a bunch of 'and then this happened because I needed it to'. Also so much of it was just character going 'Wally is so dumb lets just explain it all to him'. This might be one of the biggest fails of 'dont tell, show'. Spurrier has clearly given up on the mysterious cosmic horror aspect (which I was here for) and now its just forced plot points.

Long story short, after 6 months its clear Spurrier is just breaking down Wally. Apparently Adams building up and making Wally a hero and family man again was too much. DC must want all its 'heroes' to be fools, incompetent and without happiness or family. Spurrier is a hack.

Also the art feels phoned in. Deodato I think has stopped caring because based on the sales numbers for this run, so have most other people. more