The dastardly death of the rogues6/7/2023 We meet the police procedural supporting cast at Barry’s work, and Johns spends time establishing the unique character and “feel” of Central City, something he’s done with the settings of each series he’s written. Johns introduces us to Barry Allen, medical examiner for the Central City Police Department, and his significant other, reporter Iris Allen. Speed is cool, and super-speed is super-cool. With the various plot and continuity gymnastics done in Rebirth, and thus already well out of the way, Johns and Manapul are free to focus on the title character as a traditional superhero, and put him in the middle of a traditional superhero narrative, one distinguished by it’s old-fashioned, Silver Age-infused plot and Manapul’s beautiful, suggestive artwork, which is full of pretty and clever ways of depicting The Flash’s universally-undestood superpower. The bulk of this collection contains the title story, which began in the post- Flash: Rebirth Flash #1 from 2010. It may just be a coincidence that Geoff Johns seems to do his best writing when working with artist Francis Manapul, perhaps Manapul is simply the artist he chooses to work with when doing his lighter, brighter, less decadent and deconstructionist superhero work, but the fact remains: The Flash: The Dastardly Death of The Rogues is among Johns’ better comics in a good long while, on par with his brief run with Manapul on the Superboy character.
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