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I don't exactly love The Flash, but I like the character's supporting cast (Jay Garrick the Golden Age Flash, Max Mercury, Impulse), and I like Grant Morrison (less so Mark Millar), so I decided to give this collection a shot. And overall, it's not bad: a little dated superhero work but generally full of enough great ideas and fun to pull you along.Most of the cool moments in here, mostly in the first two high-concept stories (a villainous suit who swears revenge on The Flash, The Mirror Master'...
*-Put this on my "Scorpio Artist" shelf because of cover artist Steve Lightle.
It's not among my fave Morrison runs on popular heroes, but there are plenty of bonkers ideas in here like how Wally makes armor out of the Speed Force, and has plenty enough villains and other speedster heroes to keep your brain racing, in particular 'The Suit' is an interesting baddie.
I'm a huge Grant Morrison fan and, while I'm iffy on a lot of Mark Millar's stuff, I recognize him as an elite writer within the greater comic book world. That being said, when I found out they had collaborated on a few issues of the Flash, I knew I had to get my hands on a copy.While Emergency Stop is not as epic or as revolutionary as the majority of Grant Morrison's work, fans of Grant Morrison will recognize certain Morrisonesque elements within these very fun, very silver-agey Flash stories...
Absolutely the best collaboration between Grant Morrison and Mark Millar I've yet to read (and I've read almost all of them), and one of the most accessible, straightforward, and yet still fun superhero stories I've read from either of them. There are just so many great ideas in here, grounded by the solid, positive character work they do with Wally West, Jay Garrick, and the supporting cast. It's really just a blast to read!In particular I loved the Jay Garrick one-off story in here. Jay (the G...
Not a bad read, collecting half of Grant Morrison's and Mark Millar's run on FLASH (during Morrison's JLA run). Morrison's crazy ass ideas are in full effect here with Wally's taping of the Speed Force to create "speed armor" (?) that enables him to walk again after he is crippled. Always have enjoyed Wally West as Flash and this is no different. There are some very good character touchstones in here, particularly between Wally and Jay Garrick. Very understated work from Paul Ryan on art chores
Decent collection of Flash stories. I always like Max Mercury and Jay Garrick, so it was nice to see them back in action. Wally is my least favorite Flash, so I particularly enjoyed the issues where Jay takes over while Wally recovers from his broken legs.
Really enjoyed Morrison (& Millar) taking the reins on this one. The Jay Garrick issue is the obvious highlite. So awesome. Really enjoyed the courtroom issue at the end. Even though we don’t get the first two chapters in the story, hearing the JLA guys explain to the court their versions of what happened and how they pulled it off played like some Ocean’s 11 shit and I really liked that. And who doesn’t love rooting against a crooked lawyer? If a tv show ever adapted this episode I would watch
3.5 rounded down.I mean, c'mon a gold speed force suit Wally can use while his legs are broken? LAME. I did enjoy the 3 issue crossover with Rayner GL and Hawke GA.
Just never been a fan of the Flash in his solo series... works with the JLA but not at all impressive here.
This was an awesome read!Wally must face off against the villain "The suit" who seem to be some sort of symbiotic thing and well we find how he uses hosts and all and injures wally in their first face-off and well his strange origins and everything and time-dilation and travel which has a fun use here but anyways in the present Jay, max and Bart are facing off against this enemy but when it targets one of them as host, can wally save them and the stop the plans of "The suit" and also strange ori...
Love this story! So amazing.
Emergency Stop (130-132). Morrison and Millar show us right off that they're going to offer a different take on Wally. So we get a haunted costume, a speed-force costume, and timey-wimeyness. All of the weirdness is quite a bit of fun, but unfortunately the core of the comic rotates around big, long fights [6+/10].Shorts (133-134). Morrison & Millar's two shorts are nice. The GA Flash (134) story is the stronger of the two, because the authors have such a great grasp of his really unblemished ch...
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I don't read a lot of Flash, so I don't have much to compare this to, but I really enjoyed it. I love that the main villain is a costume. Only Grant Morrison, right? 3 1/2 stars.
Besides there being a lot of references to scientific concepts, this book really does not feel like it was written by Grant Morrison. Also, there was not a lot of sensational violence either, so it didn't seem like Mark Millar was co-writing as well. This book marks a very interesting time in the history of the Flash, it is in between Mark Waid's stellar run and Geoff John's game changing run. I have read thousands of comics at this point, but I have not really read any Stand alone Wally West Fl...
