Flash Rebirth #6 Review
Wrapped up in a nice bow with some extra material left hanging for future stories. That’s how I’d sum up the final issue of the long (and I really mean long) awaited final issue of Flash Rebirth. No… it wasn’t Watchmen late, but it took its time to get to fans.
When this series was released, we got about 10 vocal fans of Wally West throwing hissy fits all over the comic book message boards. They looked for every reason that this should fail and instead all we ended up with in the end were two realistic complaints: Wally West is not the lead Flash in this story (which is the opinion of a few), and that the book was late (which now that I can hold the final issue in my hands, it doesn’t seem so late anymore and I’m over it.)
This book had everything a Flash fan could want:
- Wally charging in to support Barry as an equal in status.
- A nostalgic nod to the distant past with scenes from Barry’s wedding and his origin as the Flash.
- Barry’s confidence returned and he became the confident Flash we all know and love (I knew he would).
- Amazing art. I’ll miss Ethan Van Sciver’s art on a Flash series. He’s in a class by himself.
- We got some forboding predictions from Zoom about one of Wally’s kids. A Geoff Johns comic book cliche, but Flash fans love it!
- We got Bart, Max, a new Impulse in Irey, Jesse Quick in a new costume, and Wally West alive for new stories.
- We got a great tease about Hunter Zolomon’s future.
- We got some Gorillas, we got some Kadabra with puppets.
- We got a focused Barry Allen ready to return to his mission.
- We got the Rogues getting ready to “break the glass” in case of Flash.
- And best of all we got Barry and Iris together again on panel.
“Welcome back Barry” the Justice League of America’s sign says. The Fastest Man alive has returned.
A great ending to a great story. I look forward to getting the trade. It will be my personal goal to get it autographed by Geoff and Ethan at some point. Thank you both for an a fun story that is among my favorite Flash stories.
Better 24 years late than “never”.
-Heater
Was this a Flash Rebirth review or a dig on people who may not have like’d it?
It’s not meant to be a dig on those that don’t like it.
I’m acknowledging that there are fans out there that can’t get past details that normally wouldn’t bug them because Barry is the Flash and not Wally. This doesn’t apply to all Wally fans, nor even most of them. Just a few.
I know of some Barry fans that don’t like it too. I respect that people don’t like some things, it’s just apparent that some of that is based not so much on the story, but on the man behind the mask.
This would apply in reverse too back when Wally was the Flash and some fans couldn’t get past that either.