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The Flash, Ep.1.22, “Rogue Air”: The Flash Hits Some Turbulence

“Rogue Air” opens with Eddie still missing and Barry and the gang searching everywhere while still trying to unravel Harrison Wells’ plan. As they try to stay one step ahead of whatever the Reverse-Flash has planned, Wells reactivates the particle accelerator, putting all of the meta-humans Barry has captured in harm’s way. Not willing to stand by and see that happen, he puts together a plan to transport them to another location, but he needs help to make sure they don’t escape in the process. With no one else to turn to, will Barry cut a deal with his enemies to ensure his plan succeeds?

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The Flash, Ep. 1.20, “The Trap”: Flash’s Best Laid Plans Go Awry

In “The Trap”, Barry and his team have found the secret room of Harrison Wells and with it the secrets he has been hiding all along. They put together a plan to get Wells to confess to murdering Barry’s mother and helping to clear his father’s name once and for all. As they set a trap to lure Wells into telling everything, who is really trapping who?

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‘Convergence’ #2: boilerplate event

DC’s latest event comic reaches its second (technically third) issue and continues the trend of disappointment. Despite a star studded cast of the excellent Earth 2 hero roster, Convergence has had very little to do despite all the publicity hype and the bringing in of countless parts of DC’s history. With so many great stories on the table, it’s a shame that this story ends up so empty.

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The Flash, Ep. 1.18, “All Star Team Up”: Flash Team Up Leaves Iris Behind

In “All Star Team Up”, Barry is still trying to solve the mystery of Harrison Wells. Why is Wells helping Barry develop his powers if Wells is the Reverse-Flash? Barry isn’t sure who he can trust and has brought Joe’s partner Eddie into the mix. They don’t have much time to dig further as a series of murders by bees (cue Wicker Man memes) has the Flash racing to stop a new threat. If he isn’t busy enough, Felicity from Arrow brings her new boyfriend and budding superhero Ray Palmer, a.k.a. The Atom, to STAR Labs for help on his super suit. Can the two of them stop this new Queen Bee?

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‘Wonder Woman’ #40: how to ruin Wonder Woman

As DC’s next big soft-core reboot begins underway, one of the most troubling facts to acknowledge is that despite the compay’s claims to have a new marketing strategy with a wider target audience in mind, that some of their most troubling decisions dating all the way back to 2011 are going nowhere. Case in point, just about everything involving DC’s handling of Wonder Woman, not just in comics but also video games, animated movies, and very likely the upcoming live action films, seems to be stripping the character of the revolutionary feminist philosophies that she was born from and replacing it with the same toxic masculinity straight out of 300. DC has taken William Moulton Marston and swapped him for Frank Miller and it still remains one of the New 52’s cardinal sins that intends to live on beyond Convergence.

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The Flash, Ep. 1.17, “Tricksters” reveals more about the Reverse Flash

The Flash is back from his time-travel adventure sure of only one thing: that Harrison Wells is up to no good. He and Joe want to figure out what Wells is hiding from everyone, but a terrorist attack by a new villain, calling himself the Trickster, has everyone too distracted. Even worse, this new menace is mirroring a person from 20 years ago, someone who also called himself the Trickster while terrorizing the city. Can Barry stop this new threat and figure out what Harrison Wells is up to?

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The CW’s ‘The Flash’/’Arrow’ spinoff casts Hawkgirl and Rip Hunter

While Marvel comics have enjoyed success on the big screen over the years, their counterpart DC Comics has similarly found success on the small screen. The company’s most notable two shows have been Arrow and The Flash, both of which have enjoyed critical and commercial success on The CW. The world that the two shows …

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‘Earth 2: World’s End’ #25: how far we’ve come

So it’s come to this, the penultimate issue of Earth 2: World’s End and what is soon to lead in to DC’s much hyped Convergence event. Does it surprise anyone that this issue is bad? Of course not! If there’s one thing that can be said about World’s End, it’s that it’s consistently awful.

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The Flash, Ep. 1.16, “Rogue Time” and the problems with time travel

Last week, The Flash took our hero in an unexpected trip through time, after he ran so fast when trying to stop a tidal wave. The question left hanging at the end of the episode, was how many of the big events would be undone now that he’s ruptured the time continuum? As many of us expected and feared, the events of “Out of Time” are completely undone: Cisco discovering that Harrison Wells is the Reverse Flash – Dr. Wells killing Cisco – Iris confessing her feelings for Barry, and Barry revealing his secret identity to Iris – are all wiped clean off the board. The result is very disappointing.

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‘Earth 2: World’s End’ #24: Eve of destruction

It’s the same old drill again, another issue of DC’s regular installment of disappointment. Guess it’s time to get it done. Earth 2: World’s End reaches issue #24 and is set to conclude in two weeks. Looking back on the last six and a half months leads one to conclude that the finale will most certainly be disappointing given how mismanaged this entire endeavor has been since day one. That being said, this week brings shockingly the closest knit issue to date, that is to say, there’s something that ties the many plot lines together and not something like the terrible art or drawn out fight scenes.

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The Flash, Ep. 1.15, “Out of Time” boasts a heady script, stunning performances and an explosive reveal

The Flash has had a long and complicated history to say the least. These complications all began with “Flash of Two Worlds!” a landmark comic book story published in 1961, that introduces Earth-Two, and more generally the concept of the multiverse, to DC Comics. Long story short, by the 1980s, the DC Universe was drowning in these parallel Earths and multiple continuities and so the writers over at DC decided to solve these problems with Crisis on Infinite Earths, a reality-destroying crossover event that removed the concept of the Multiverse, and depicted the deaths of many long-standing superheroes.

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The end of ‘Earth 2’ at #32

Well, it’s finally come, the last issue of Earth 2. The reason Earth 2 and its weekly series Earth 2: World’s End gets reviewed every week is that despite all the bad worlds said about in the last six months, Earth 2 used to be one of the best books coming out of DC. In fact, it was one of the few books that made the New 52 somewhat justified in its existence. Instead of rehashing older stories or making embarrassing changes to characters older than the company that published them, Earth 2 did something different. It build a whole new world from the ground up, embracing its comic book roots by being a series about ordinary people swept up into the world of the impossible and altruism and hope overcome the darkest to times. It broke standards by bringing Lois Lane, who’d been killed off panel for little purpose, back from the dead as a superhero and making Val Zod a more true-to-nature version of Superman than Superman has been in years. It was helmed by the great James Robinson and continued by the excellent Tom Taylor. Yet that golden age has come to a close, for the past six months DC has done everything in its power to sabotage this series. It turned this book into little more than a tie-in to World’s End which itself is little more than a sloppy mess of a title, stumbling its way to the finish line. What little gems of aspiration could have been found were buried under editorial mandate and terrible management. While this series will live on after the upcoming Convergence event as Earth 2: Society, the damage has been done. There is little to no hope for this series to ever reclaim its greatness. Hence it is with a heavy heart that this is the last issue of Earth 2.

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‘Earth 2: World’s End’ #21: it gets better

Another week means another issue of Earth 2: World’s End and while the chance for this series to be anything beyond cheap tie-in material to DC’s Convergence event has long passed by, this issue is a shocking improvement to what has usually be a painful slog to read. It’s true that this series has stuck the terrible decision to split art duties between plotlines instead of individual issues such as with Futures End and Batman Eternal, but for once this series does something that resembles competence.

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The Flash, Ep. 1.13 & 1.14: “The Nucleur Man” and “Fallout” solidifies this as the hottest new show

This week’s episode of The Flash, titled “Fallout,” capped off a two-part story arc focusing mostly on Firestorm. Last week in “The Nucleur Man,” the team attempted to track Ronnie Raymond’s whereabouts after he makes acquaintances with one Quentin Quale. What began as an awkward conversation between them, ended with Ronnie losing control and unleashing his powers on the Concordance Research scientist. Knowing that Dr. Martin Stein is in control of Ronnie’s body, the Star Labs team devise a plan to find and capture Firestorm who’s becoming increasingly dangerous to the citizens of Central City. It turns out that Ronnie/Martin have been watching over Stein’s wife, so Caitlin and Dr. Wells hold a stakeout at the Stein house using Clarissa as bait. With her help, they bring Ronnie/Stein back to their labs, in hopes of separating them through nuclear fission. Wells uses the hours they have left to find a way to save them both and creates a makeshift quantum splicer out of his tachyon prototype to stabilize Ronnie’s body and separate the two personalities.

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Cullen Bunn joins ‘Earth 2: World’s End’ in #18

Earth 2: World’s End #18 Written by Daniel H. Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Mike Johnson, Cullen Bunn Art by Scott McDaniel, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, R. B. Silva, Walden Wong, Eduardo Pansica, Marc Deering, Jorge Jimenez, & Tyler Kirkham Colors by Andrew Dalhouse Published by DC Comics So, another week means another issue churned out by …

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The Flash, Ep. 1.12, “Crazy for You” hits a few speed bumps along the way

This week on The Flash, Britne Oldford stars as Shauna Baez (Peek-a-Boo) a metahuman who’s mastered the power of teleportation via quantum entanglement. After breaking her boyfriend Clay Parker, out of Iron Heights prison, Barry Allen is tasked with solving the case by taking the residual DNA particulates found at the crime scene to S.T.A.R. Labs for analyzing. Aiding Barry in his investigation is his incarcerated dad Henry who discovers that Clay owes money to a local crime boss, who just happens to be planning a major heist.

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The Flash, Ep. 1.11, “The Sound and the Fury ” and fathers and sons

Since The Flash returned from its winter hiatus, the writers have done a fine job in shifting the spotlight on the supporting cast while also inching one step closer to the showdown between Barry and the Reverse-Flash. In “The Sound and the Fury” we learn more about the past of the mysterious Dr. Harrison Wells when his former protege Hartley Rathaway returns to turn his world upside down and ruin whatever good reputation Wells has left. Hartley begins attacking his family’s business with sonic blasts, and later steals information from S.T.A.R. Labs’ computer that would allow him to identify the frequency of Barry’s molecules so he can kill him. Elsewhere Iris West begins her career as a professional journalist at Central City Picture News, and Joe has Eddie start an investigation on Wells, suspecting his motives are not what they seem.

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‘Earth 2: World’s End’ #16: another one bites the dust

Earth 2: World’s End # 16 Written by Daniel H. Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, & Mike Johnson Art by Scott McDaniel, Tyler Kirkham, Eduardo Pansica & Paul Neary, Robson Rocha & Guillermo Ortego Published by DC Comics Another week means another issue of Earth 2: World’s End, the series that would have been cancelled by now …

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The Flash, Ep. 1.10, “Revenge of the Rogues” an infectiously fun blend of special effects, comedy and drama

The CW’s hit series came back from its mid-season break with “Revenge of the Rogues,” an action packed hour juggling many subplots and further building the DC universe. When last we saw our hero, he was defeated by the mysterious Man in the Yellow Suit, but thanks to a wild card in Firestorm, the Scarlett Speedster made out with his life. That encounter played heavily into the show’s mid-season premiere which opens with Barry’s narration changed to reflect his battle with the Reverse Flash, followed by Barry working on improving his speed through various training exercises that force him to dodge drones piloted by Cisco (How cool was that?).

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‘Earth 2: World’s End’ #15 drops the ball

Earth 2: World’s End #15 Written by Daniel H. Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Mike Johnson Art by Scott McDaniel, Eduardo Pansica & Paul Neary, R.B. Silva & Walden Wong, Jorge Jimenez, Robson Rocha & Guillermo Ortego, Tyler Kirkham, Eddy Barrows & Eber Ferreira Published by DC Comics Another week, another issue of Earth 2: World’s End. …

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