Flash #785 Spoilers/Discussion (Read Before Dark Crisis #4).

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I wanted to start this thread to say that Jeremy Adams continues to do a great job with the hand he is dealt, mainly having to tie-in to bigger stories while maintaining the story he wants to tell.

I also want to start this so that people who go into Dark Crisis #4 don’t get confused and can follow the story. Because this is a Dark Crisis story, and it is going to tie-in to the next issue pretty heavily. In fact solicitations for issue 4 even mention that things spin directly out of the Flash.

So what is going on is the Flash family has been split up across the multiverse while looking for Barry. Jay and Iris and Jai find themselves in a Batman like world, Jessie and Max find themselves in Mad Max, and Wally and Wallace (Ace) have found Barry on his dream world. Linda Park-West however is freaking out over her husband and kids and decides, much to to the chagrin of Mister Terrific, with her new speed powers to go after her family. I don’t really care for the Mad Max story, it was more a fun visual gag. But I like the Night Flash world and it feels like it sets up a new multiverse threat with Knives Maroney who is a bit of a mix of reverse flash, Benjamin button, and Chucky…yeah that is a weird sentence I admit it. But it feels like they set him up for a come back so IÂ’d keep a watch out for tiny psycho speedsters.

Oh and there is a bit of a problem on Barry’s world: 1) Ace is starting to be seduced by the (great) darkness and 2) Barry sees Wally as Eobard and is proceeding to whoop him…well that is until Linda shows up and literally beats some sense into Barry. It’s pretty good. But from it Barry snaps out of it and reveals to Wally that the Justice League have to be alive if they got disintegrated like him. And then they come back together as they run away from the dream world that is falling apart around them because Barry is free and Ace has figured out that everything is wrong.

But Barry is going to be a hero and while the Flash Family head home to help out and spread the good news, Barry has decided to go off to the races to save the Justice League who are still trapped which without any doubt in my mind will happen in the next issue of Dark Crisis.

I think Adam here manages to handle the ball that is a crisis event masterfully. He is teeing up his own stories of the West Family of Speedsters and the Flash family all while making sure to play ball and get Barry where he needs for Williamson. It’s a juggling game and Adams has managed to play it with style. I think more people should read this run because it’s just a lot of fun.