Comments on: Flash: Rebirth #5 Now Due November 11

By: Benny

Benny — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:54:42 +0000

The delays are just taking all the steam out of the Relaunch. When you read BN, you already know that Barry is getting back to his old self. The whole series is becoming redundant. I love what we have had so far, but we should have the entire series by now. It really feels like that we are just killing time till we get Flash BN and then the new series. I love EVS’s work, but this is getting silly now. Lets hope Scott Kolins and Francis Manupal are more like the flash when it comes to their art and less like the Turtle(sorry EVS)

By: Freddie Ray

Freddie Ray — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:24:50 +0000

Whoa, hey, don’t blame me! I have my own problems, I don’t need to be burdened with some rock star comic book artist and his lack of priorities.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:14:37 +0000

I really liked the first issue, with some reservations about the way Barry’s past had been changed in what seemed to be an unnecessary and cliche manner. In retrospect, though, I think this was in part due to novelty.

Issue #2 I kind of liked.

With issue #3, I felt like nothing was really happening, the villain choice was too predictable, and really, what was the whole point of laying out exposition in the slowest manner possible when we could have instead started in media res with actual story.

Issue #4 was a huge improvement, and IMO is what issue #2 should have been. I’m still not happy with a change made to the nature of the speed force — it seems too much like a “My Flash is better than your Flash, always was, and always will be!” statement, but other than that it felt like the story was finally getting on track.

By: Amagoi

Amagoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:32 +0000

This is just ridiculous. Maybe it’s me being impatient as all heck, but EVS is good but not good enough to excuse all these delays. I’m definatly not a fan of him after this.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:01:02 +0000

please quit jinxing the release date, you are too good at jinxs.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:59:25 +0000

Wouldn’t Beast Boy be making comments about her and her clothes, instead of talking about just the trick.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:56:41 +0000

well for the most part I am enjoying this series.

By: collectededitions

collectededitions — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:12:31 +0000

We’ve kidded back and forth about how this is an argument for waiting-for-the-trade, but in all seriousness what’s seemed most significant to me in the wake of this news is that you and @SpeedsterSite both seem a little blase about Flash: Rebirth in general, in addition to this news. I admit I haven’t been closely following the reviews (spoilers and all), but are you enjoying the series?

I ask because, if the answer is “not really,” that’s a big heaping problem for DC (because if you and SpeedsterSite, two of the biggest Flash fans I know, don’t like it, so I imagine goes the rest of the world). This is on the heels, I can’t ignore, of not one, but two other failed Flash relaunches, given that Fastest Man Alive didn’t take, nor did resurrecting Wally’s title.

Third time’s the charm — if DC can’t get another blockbuster title out of this like they did with Green Lantern, I’d be afraid Flash will go the way of Aquaman for a while.
.-= collectededitions’s latest blog post: Blackest Night trade collection, Showcase Presents Suicide Squad solicited =-.

By: West

West — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:15:34 +0000

I'll say it, again, despite being a Flash fan, THESE are the sort of things that push me farther and farther away from comics. I hate rewarding this behavior (or the years it took to get an issue of Planetary) but mostly, I just care less after a waiting too long. .-= West’s latest blog post: He Lives! =-.

By: Lia

Lia — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:09:43 +0000

The last time she tried that, half the JLA got mindwiped!