All Flash Quarterly #2 is Special.
This comic is just special, and as such it is getting special treatment. I’m basically encapsulating the entire comic, because it’s just this great, fun, zany comic that then… well, that’d be telling. Still, totally worth an entire week as far as I’m concerned and well, my blog, so you’re stuck with my (poor) taste.
Also, I ask a favor of the historians in the room. This is a fairly easy story to find, and I am sure you could skip ahead. If you do, cool. Just please don’t spoil it in the comments. Pretty please with sugar on top.
With that said, on with the show!
Oh boy! 64 pages of the Fastest Man Alive torturing people. Let’s read on, kids!
Joe Conner is not going to become Roy Revenge. They tell you that straight-out. So who is Roy Revenge? Keep reading!
As you can see, Joe has a plan!
As per comic logic, it’s not enough that Joe just become a research scientist or a doctor or Lawyer, but instead becomes an expert on everything! So what happens when Joe meets up with DA Kelly?
“Oh good, Mr. Hardened Criminal who has sworn to harm me. I’m glad you say it’s all cool between us. Say, why don’t you come over for tea?”
Dumbest. DA. Ever. Normally I’d break here and do more tomorrow, but I just can’t help myself…
Gosh, great timing by those thugs, eh?
While this is obvious to all, it’s still a pretty sophisticated plan. I kinda liked the story at this point. Don’t worry though, Joe’s not gonna harm the kid. The story then flashes forward a few years and introduces a young criminal mastermind named “Roy Revenge”. We then get a flashback to Roy’s origins:
Not a bad plan… except:
Lookit how dames ruin everything!
Oh and for the record? Naming your child after your living wife? Kinda messed up. Don’t worry though, the story progresses.
Hint to supervillians (and comic book writers): The name you thought was cool when you were six? Not cool. At all.
So the story jumps back to the now older Roy Revenge getting napped by the Flash and his “father” pretending to be ashamed:
Man that’s messed up. So Joe gets the kid convicted and then slips him a gun in court.
The kid misses thanks to the Flash, but escapes in the tumult.
Roy’s kind of a sweet kid, in his own way. Joe, on the other hand, is fuming at losing his chance for revenge. Which takes us to chapter TWO! That’s right folks, all that happened in just the first chapter. Know what? We’ll pick this up tomorrow.
March 7th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
That was convoluted enough for a novel. Knowing it's going to escalate already has my head spinning.
March 7th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Naming your daughter after a living wife was common back then. I have several ancestors who had the same names as their mothers. So yeah…it's kinda confusing when there's an adult Christianna on the same boat as a child Christianna with the same name and listed as mother and daughter….*lol*
But hey…looks like the DA became Mayor sometime in the 18 years his son was kidnapped.
March 8th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Wow, that's an intense first chapter.
Is it just me who finds something subtly wrong about the sequence in the eleventh page? I mean, other than Joe being kind of a creepy father. There's just something about the sequential use of “Who is that queer-looking man?”, “Who's your friend?”, and then the Flash just picking up the kid and dashing off… Not Seduction-of-the-Innocent-worthy, but certainly notable.
Maybe it's just that my brain has set up permanent shop in the gutter. I'll just go slink back there now.
March 9th, 2010 at 3:51 am
Wow, that’s an intense first chapter.rnrnIs it just me who finds something subtly wrong about the sequence in the eleventh page? I mean, other than Joe being kind of a creepy father. There’s just something about the sequential use of “Who is that queer-looking man?”, “Who’s your friend?”, and then the Flash just picking up the kid and dashing off… Not Seduction-of-the-Innocent-worthy, but certainly notable.rnrnMaybe it’s just that my brain has set up permanent shop in the gutter. I’ll just go slink back there now.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Yeah…not unlike naming your son after his still-living father.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:21 am
Yeah…not unlike naming your son after his still-living father. It’s done less often, but it’s the same principle.
March 10th, 2010 at 2:15 am
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