The Flash
Warning : SPOILERS for Flash Forward # 2
Wally West has a Modern missionin the DC Universe , as the only sub who can bring around the Multiverse from a colored corruption spreading from one world to the next . But what hewasn’ttold is that part ofThe Flash ’s new occupation would intend fightingThe AvengersandX - Men . Well , theDCversion of them , obviously ( which is even better ) .
Flash fans who drop the first outcome ofFlash Forwardmay need to get catch up tight , since Wally was last seen in a peculiar prison electric cell ( having turned himself in after unintentionally killing a twelve citizenry duringHeroes in Crisis ) . That all exchange when a cosmic Guardian named Tempus Fuginaut tore a whole into Wally ’s cell , selecting himas the dissipated man in the Multiverse – and therefore the only hero sandwich powerful enough to save it from dark . Before Wally could sing specifics with his young helper , he ended up thrown across the Multiverse to a world on the verge of obliteration . But what Wally finds instead is two Marvel super - teams ready to contend him … at the same time .
The parallel world in crisis is formally designate " Earth-23 " home of thePresident Superman ( inspire by President Barack Obama ) . The previous takings stop with Wally arriving to find said Superman hemorrhage and broken , andFlash Forward # 2picks up right where that story leave off . As some will have suspected , President Superman was set on by materialisation of the Dark Multiverse corruption Wally has been sent to stop . But when he traces it to its source , Wally disclose another chemical group of heroes hear to solve the same trouble – from the other side of the snag in the Multiverse . See if they wait familiar to you Marvel fan …
The similarities between these heroes and those of Marvel Comics go much inscrutable than appearance . Thanks to theCountdownseries precedingDC ’s Modern 52 reboot , and afterward Grant Morrison’sMultiversity , fans will know these heroes hail from Earth-8 , a humanity where planet Earth is sleep together as ' Angor ' and is policed by two different superhuman groups , the first being The Retaliators lead by ' American Crusader . ' With him are the loom Behemoth ( an raging , giant , racy baby ) , the mechanical Machinehead , the sure shoot Deadeye … you get the idea . It ’s a universe meant as an explicit parody of Marvel ’s , with these Avenger analog mimicking the originals .
As further grounds of just how seriously this Multiversal corruption is being taken , the Retaliators have brought some back - up in the form of the Zen - Men , the same Marvel - ish universe ’s take on the X - humankind ( led by the expansive " Uni - Orb " and his psychic"beloved " ) . The bad intelligence is the Heron ca n’t help but get into Wally West is relate to the corruption . The effective news ? Fans no longer need to wonder how The Flash would do in a battle against the flux force of Marvel ’s Avengers AND 10 - Men . As if the answer was ever in doubtfulness .
Marvel fans can claim these are n’t the REAL X - Men or Avengers , so Wally ’s power to stay on one step ahead of them through their entire battle is n’t valid . But all things considered , this may be DC ’s fortune for some payback afterMarvel made their Justice League cold - full-blood killer . They may be hero and mutant soldiers , but neither the Retaliators nor the Zen - Men have faced an enemy like The Flash . And that ’s all the border a speedster needs to knock them off their metrical unit . Wally West use his unequalled connectedness to the Speed Force to absorb their best attack from Thor and Storm , and turn it against them to spread out a grownup enough windowpane to eat up the battle and , you know , in reality bring through the daytime for both their Earth .
Bragging rights belong to The Flash in this peculiar crossover , but we have to marvel : would Wally fare differently if he were accept onMarvel ’s novel , more brutal ex - human race ? A interrogative sentence for another daylight – Wally has a Multiverse to save !
Flash Forward # 2is usable now from your local mirthful book shop , or direct fromDC Comics .
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