All right, it's cool to see that Venditti and Jensen are actually giving a justifiable reason for Wally's attitude.
However, the best part for me is the amount of sub-plots they have introduced. Seriously, there are several plot-points that these writers introduced in the Annual and I had to re-read the issue a few times to check all of them, I really like this kind of long-term planning.
I have to say that Lemire's Green Arrow, Venditti's Green Lantern, Azzarello's Wonder Woman and Johns' Justice League have some really good aspects of long-term planning (Jordan's New Guardians too to some extent).
If you want to check other good examples in the New 52 I would suggest you to read Johns' Aquaman and Lemire's Animal Man.
Its not Wally. Its a wholly new character who happens to have the same. No thanks.
Eh, I think Manapul/Buccellato had some really good ideas and they demonstrated some interesting aspects of plannification (it's not an accident that every story immediately went to another). Plus, I thought that the worldbuilding was pretty good and connecting Gorilla City and Grodd's evolution to the Speed Force was a brilliant move.
However, most of the time the stories lacked the kind of execution that they deserved (especially in the first year). Not to mention that they abandoned a lot of ideas (Mob Rule, Turbine, etc.) and it seems like editorial derailed their stories a couple of times.
Still, I really enjoyed what I got from them, it was a pretty fun run overall.
I enjoyed their run as well. The issues that I had were with the pacing of the stories and some clumsy dialogue. There were also several issues which seemed light on material. I always felt like they put too much emphasis on their creative visual layouts as opposed to a dense creative story. Buccellato's other books seem to be better crafted...
They didn't lose me... but halfway throught the Reverse-Flash arc I started hoping for a new creative team. It just really felt like they had nothing more to give.
Oh God, I don't really like most of Buccellato's solo work. Sometimes he can surprise me like in The Flash Annual #2 and his Grodd one-shot from Villains Month but most of the time I find his writing incredibly bland and lacking in polish. I think Manapul is the biggest creative force behind their collaboration.
And funnily enough, I thought that The Reverse-Flash arc was their best story in the title.