THE FLASH #10
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
“UNTIMELY”
Iris West is getting rrreal tired of Booster Gold. Her on-again-off-again fiancé Barry Allen is lost in time, and Booster had a solid rep as a time-traveling hero. Yet the “agent” she was negotiating with to acquire his services turned out to be a weird floating roomba named Skeets (ew?) and, despite several temporal jumps, they still haven’t found Barry. To top it off, Booster is totally annoying and can’t stop talking about how the 2020 quarantine is a sham because in his time they’re up to like Covid-3467 and the viruses didn’t really get bad until after someone ate Man-Bat Beyond. She’s starting to suspect the guy is just some dudebro who stole a super-suit in the future... and now they’re trapped between the French and Mexican armies in the 1862 Battle of Puebla! Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Flash Fact: In The Song of Hiawatha
, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote:
Swift of foot was Hiawatha
He could shoot an arrow from him
And run forward with such fleetness,
That the arrow fell behind him!
Proving to be even more amateur a time traveler than Booster, after butting heads with his maternal grandfather in the 1970s, Flash attempts to run back home... and totally overshoots the mark... in the wrong direction! In the year 1550, he meets another speedster: Hiawatha, Chief of the Onondaga, who is attempting to unite the five Iroquois tribes against a deadly threat...
Meanwhile, in the present, the forces of Gorilla City have prevailed in Africa. Grodd now wears the skull of General Abioye Ezekwesili around his neck. This means the Light will need a new L36 - and that both sides of this war are about to escalate matters!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99