The Flash #50 Preview / Discussion (Spoilers)

[Sonia]

The Flash #50

https://nerdist.com/the-flash-50-exc...iew-dc-comics/

The lightning-fueled finale of “Flash War”! Zoom adapts two new Speed Force powers into his arsenal against both Barry Allen and Wally West. What are these strange new powers? What can they do? And how will this haunt the Scarlet Speedster long after “Flash War” is over? It’s the power of two Flashes pitted against the seemingly unstoppable Hunter Zolomon!

[married guy]

Yeah. I still don't like Hunter as a speedster.

[Cmbmool]

They need to at the very least show that the PRE FLASHPOINT world and characters are out there and they also should at the very least try to tie it into Doomsday Clock somehow, right ?

[Frontier]

"Listen, before my mom died" Yes, we get it Barry, your mom is dead. Because The Flash always has to connect to your dead mom .

Oh look, they're trying to connect Wally's nemesis to Barry exactly like the TV show did .

I don't really think we need all these different Forces in a book that's ostensibly just supposed to be about speed.

[Sam]

Oh look, they're trying to connect Wally's nemesis to Barry exactly like the TV show did .

Actually, Williamson made a very interesting point about that recently. Barry and Hunter have a lot in common (as stated in this preview), while Wally and Eobard have a bunch of similarities (both were Flash superfans who wanted to be just like him when they got his powers and valued his opinion highly). Usually, we see arch-villains being used as dark reflections of the heroes they face, but having Hunter be a dark version of Barry, while Eobard is a dark version of Wally is an interesting interpretation. I'm interested to see where Williamson takes it.

[BohemiaDrinker]

"Oh look, they're trying to connect Wally's nemesis to Barry exactly like the TV show did

In all fairness, "Return of Barry Allen" did the same thing.

And the Reverse Flashes being a distorted version of the Flasah that is not the one they have a beef with is sort of interesting.

[Rakzo]

I just loved this.

Williamson throwed all the references to previous mythos, including the often ignored Hypertime, while also developing the new ones that appeared post-Metal. Best of all are the character moments and how they were executed, he did give readers and answer about who was going to win this race and is just so satisfying to hear: "You're Wally West and you're the fastest man alive!" bringing back the best moments from Johns' run (as expected from Williamson), paying a lot of respect to the character and delivering exactly what fans wanted.

A bit of the conflict at the end felt kinda forced though, yes, it wasn't that much of a deal but it felt a bit out of place considering what just happened. That being said, it was compensated immediately by the return of you know who.

Porter's pencils remained effective during the whole read and that was this issue is, pretty effective from a story and emotional level.

[MajorHoy]

They need to at the very least show that the PRE FLASHPOINT world and characters are out there and they also should at the very least try to tie it into Doomsday Clock somehow, right ?

Why would they?

After what little they did with Jay after Flash #22, . . .