The Flash: Dead Heat [Paperback]

Mark Waid (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563896230
• ISBN-13: 978-1563896231
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #936,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Waid, a New York Times bestselling author, has written a wider variety of well-known comics characters than any other American comics author, from Superman to the Justice League to Spider-Man to Archie and hundreds of others. His award-winning graphic novel with artist Alex Ross, KINGDOM COME, is one of the best-selling comics collections of all time. (Secretly, however, he prefers SUPERMAN: BIRTHRIGHT and his IRREDEEMABLE collections as his favorite works he's produced.)

With over twenty years of experience in his field, Waid maintains a blog at www.markwaid.com that is full of advice for beginning writers and experienced authors both.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, July 8, 2001

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Vernon Clark Mayo "Fastest gun, comic god" (Allen Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flash: Dead Heat (Paperback)

Well this story took place in The Flash issues 108 to 111 and Impulse issues 10 and 11 and have been collected here. The story is about Savitar who is in his own mind the God of speed, and when he finds out others are using the speed from the speed force and so he cuts them off...All but wally west The Flash and thats when all hell breaks loose. This story has it all, lots of speedsters like the first flash and others and you have "Speed Ninjas" who work with Savitar so all in all you get a good story with lots of the "Flash family" in it. Also you have the death of a few speedsters as well so if your a flash fan you will not want to miss the story about that.

My one problem with the book is that it has a cliffhanger ending! trades should never leave the ending open like that because you buy a trade for the complete story not cliffhangers. but DC comics have published the second book "Race againist time" so you might want ot pick it up at the same time if you want the whole story.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A really good Part I of a two part story, January 3, 2006

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Flash: Dead Heat (Paperback)

When all of the speedsters except The Flash suddenly lose their superhuman speed, they begin looking for an explanation. Well, the explanation is heading their way, in the shape of a new super-villain, Savitar. Savitar literally worships the Speed Force, and does not want anyone else tapping its power. Wally West is in the hot seat, and he is going to have to use all of his intellect and talent if he is going to save himself and the other speedsters.

I must say that I am of two minds about this book. It has an exciting storyline, and keeps you on the edge of your seat, right up to the end. On the downside, however, the story leaps back and forth between the work of Oscar Jimenez and Humberto Ramos, and Ramos's anime style is not fitting to the story. Also, the simple fact that it does leap between two styles gives the story a discordant feel to it. The final insult is that this book ends in a cliff-hanger, and you must move on to The Flash: Race Against Time to see what happens next. (And believe me, you really need to do that!)

But, that said, this is a great Flash story, one that I am really glad that I read. So, I guess I would sum up by saying that this is a really good Part I of a two part story, one that any Flash fan will be glad to read.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Termial Velocity Was only the begining, July 21, 2000

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Craig Lawrence "hilandercs" (Gaithersburg, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flash: Dead Heat (Paperback)

Amazing. For you Flash fans out there, this is a must have. What began with the onderful story line of Terminal Velocity is continued and expanded upon here. The speed Force is being stolen from speedsters everywhere and only Wally can stop the man responsible. Everybodys here; Max Mercury, Impulse, Jay Garrick, Jessie and Johnny Quick. For those of you who loved Termial Velocity, this is in every way a second chapter in the growth of Wally and the revealing of "The Speed Force"