The Flash #32 // Review
Barry Allen is exhausted. Someone is offering a rather large sum of money every day to anyone who can get footage of themselves being saved by the local superhero of Central City. So people have been dropping off buildings, knowing that they’ll be saved by the local speedster. It’s annoying. It’s dangerous. And it’s covering up something much more ominous. To make matters worse, in order to save the city, the cities is most prominent hero is going to have to team up with the most prominent villain. Barry’s got his hands full in The Flash #32. Writer Ryan North craft a particularly witty script that is brought to the page by artist. Gavin Guidry and colorist Adriano Lucas
Captain Cold is standing on top of a building just like so many others. But he’s a super villain, right? He’s not interested in the money. It’s not like he’s got a big social media account or anything like that. Not like followers would see him jumping from a building, getting saved by.The Flash and winning the daily contest. So why is he up there? And does he really expect?The Flash to catch him if he falls? They’re both about to find out.
North set up a couple of relief, fun concepts in an issue featuring some remarkably clever dialogue.. north does a brilliant job of using the basic premise of an age old character with the relatively new ideas for my new technology. Add that the fact that a very clever, complex and believable team up between hero and villain. It’s a really sharply rendered issue that is thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end. Above all, North manages to. Hold onto those things that make this particular character so appealing and focus on them in a way that fully embraces is appeal.
Guidry has found a lot of creative solutions to bringing Barry’s power to the page. There are some rather ingenious layouts being employed. The immediacy of the situation is firmly established from the very beginning. The hero is shown in a number of different contexts that all seem distinctly different in a way that feels very dramatic. The drama between Barry and.Captain Cold is given subtlety and nuance in the visual. It's really difficult to draw a pair of characters who have had a working relationship for decades. To try to draw and render that familiarity can be very difficult to do without making it seem exaggerated, Guidry does an adorable job of it. Lucas’ colors lend the page a personality all their own. That personality rests at the top of the art which rests the top the script and a way that makes everything interact really well.
There are a little bits and little flashes of personality around the edges that make the issue all the more appealing. Barry takes out a classified ad, and we see some of the other classifieds around the edges of the newspaper. North does a really good job of bringing out the personality of the DC universe. It's something that's so often overlooked in the comics. The fact that things are going to be fundamentally different in these worlds. But they're going to be extremely familiar. And bringing that to the page in a way that feels sparkling witty is always a lot of fun.
