This was so different from any of the Flash titles I have read. Between issue one and two it was hard to hope for any kind of happy ending, but I guess that is for the readers to determine. Given the artwork and story telling, this part of the Future State is vital, especially when it comes to whatever part the Four Horsemen have to play. Read Full Review

Future State: The Flash #2 pits science against speed as Barry takes one last stand against Famine to save Wally from certain doom. Read Full Review

The freedom the Future State provides is the greatest asset to the issue. Readers can not assume the heroes always win or that everyone can be saved. This creative freedom creates a worthy issue that is allowed to wrestle with the issue of evil triumphing over good. The ending may not be satisfying to fans, but it provides DC the ability to play around with concepts usually off the table in traditional super hero franchises. Read Full Review

Future State: The Flash #2 is an utterly beautiful comic hiding a weirdly-executed story inside that is not only a complete downer, but also doesn't end properly and continues DC's recent streak of shredding Wally West. Flash Fact: avoid this comic. Read Full Review

Visually pleasing, Future State: The Flash #2 starts off promising but ends up somewhat disappointing. The action sequences show off Barry's scientific mind and ingenuity in using the weapons of his enemies to stop his fellow speedster. However, it's hard to be excited to see more of this story with an ending that doesn't stick the landing. Read Full Review

"Future State" as a whole has been quite interesting for the DCU, giving us unique takes on their expansive library, which makes it so unfortunate that Barry Allen and company seem to be on the lower side of the totem pole. Read Full Review

Future State: The Flash #2 has improved but is still disappointing. Darkness and misery absolutely have a place within superhero comics and have often been dealt with well by writers. But this comic is far too bleak. The pacing, characters, and dialogue arent doing enough to keep you invested in the plot. The art is brilliant and the fight is enthralling but the reader may find themselves tuning out from it. Fan-favorite characters have been killed off in this series but its hard to care about that fact when its almost a side note within the issue. However, the end of the comic provides some context to this world, so hopefully what comes next is worth the torment. Read Full Review

This one sadly didn't work for me at all. Read Full Review

Future State: The Flash #2 has slivers of intriguing content, but most of the issue is at odds with itself. Read Full Review

As for The Flash? After these two Future State issues, he cant return to the current timeline fast enough. Hopefully with far better results than this potential future. Read Full Review

I cannot remember the last time I was this disappointed in a comic book. With how much fun the Future State direction has been thus far it is shocking to get such an unsatisfying reading experience like the one we got in the Future State: The Flash series. The fact that this series ended without even telling a complete story furthers how disappointing this entire experience was. At this point the best thing that can happen for the Flash Family is to forget that they took part in Future State. Read Full Review

From the Zack Snyder school of "let's make a Superman movie with no bright colors" comes a Flash comic covered in both actual and figurative darkness. In a vacuum, this would be a perfectly fine comic. It's well told and has nice looking art. But the fact is that this is a story about DC Comics superhero the Flash that literally turns the lead character's optimism into a doom and gloom downer.

I recently joked with a friend that the classic Marvel “What If…?” stories always ended with the end of the world. While Future State: The Flash #2 doesn’t quite hit the full apocalypse, it does bring about the worst possible outcomes for the Flash family. It wasn’t the ending I expected, but I don’t really have a problem with the end of the story being a downer. My biggest gripe is that it’s apparently a lead-in or tie-in to the Teen Titans Future State books, which I really have no interest in reading.

Brandon Veitti has jumped the story ahead 2 months which seems like a lot of time when Kid Flash is apparently one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse bringing about the end of the world. When a speedster can circle the globe in seconds, months seems like an exceptionally long time have someone hiding out. Veitti also tried really hard to establish in the first issue that this is a very supernatural occurrence of a dark apocalyptic character but spends this issue building Barry’s internal monologue to clarify that this clearly can’t be a supernatural creature. There’s no reasoning given for his change in attitude, and it sticks out like a sore thumb, especially when Barry is proven wrong.

Brandon Peterson and Will Conrad take over the main art duties this issue with Mike Atiyeh returning on colors. The art feels a lot more fluid and energetic which is a great change from the previous issue. The colors from Atiyeh feel much more well rounded this time around. Perhaps the artists gave him more shadows and heavily weighted areas to work with, but the issue just felt like a more finely polished product than the previous effort.

While I’m still happy that this issue doesn’t come packed with a back-up story and a higher cover price, I just don’t feel like this story is worth the price overall. It feels too disconnected from the story that has been running in the comic series for the past several years and the continued kicking around of Wally West is just too much. Veitti doesn’t have the voice of Barry Allen down and tying-in of this story to the Teen Titans series instead of the Justice League or keeping it as a stand-alone doesn’t feel right for this character.

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Oh boy am I cautious about the upcoming Flash run. I'll give it a chance, but after this monstrosity it's really impossible to be even remotely excited about it.

A wave of exposition about how great science is, only to watch it fail. I remember how unsettling Heroes in Crisis was, the characterization of Wally was so jarring that I thought it couldn't get any worse. Oh how wrong I was. Sprinkle in a little Cy-Beast and you have one god awful comic.

If Brandon Vietti hoped for an emotional resolution to this comic, I think he missed the mark, not mentioning learned nothing from the hate wave related to the abominable Heroes in Crisis. Instead, this short story leaves you completely indifferent not only to itself, but also to what awaits us in Future State Teen Titans.

It's just bad... sigh, time to retire the evil Wally West concept for few years, at least. It's also time to forget this comic ever existed... wait, what was I talking about? I feel like I forgot about something. Maybe it's for the better.

Oh my god

Not worth the paper it's printed on. That is all.