The Flash: Terminal Velocity [Paperback]

Mark Waid (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (September 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563892499
• ISBN-13: 978-1563892493
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.4 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #584,599 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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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stupendous!, December 23, 2003

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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: Terminal Velocity (Paperback)

This stupendous graphic novel is a reprint, in a book form, of the FLASH #96-100 (1994-95). In the story Crisis in Time, Wally West, the Flash, was given a glimpse of a horrific future. And then, wandering back in time, he gets to see the events that made him the man he is. But, haunted by his knowledge of future events, Wally must train up Bart Allen (the Impulse, and Barry Allen's grandson), so that he can help him to change the future. But, even with the help of Jay Garrick (Flash I), Johnny Quick, Max Mercury and Jessie Quick, can Wally and Bart change the future, and save everything that Wally holds dear? Read this book to find out!

This is a great graphic novel - it is stupendous - I would go as far as to say that it is the best graphic novel that I have ever read, and I have read more than a few! The illustrations are very good, but short of what I have come to expect from recent graphic novels. BUT, what makes this book great is the story. Mark Waid succeeds in spinning a story that is very touching, and yet stuffed full of action and adventure. Plus, besides learning more of what makes Wally West tick, this book actually lets you in on the secret of what gives the speedsters their powers!

So, if you like the Flash, or just like a good superhero story, then you must get this book!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A solid-slam-bang super hero fantasy, April 20, 1998

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This review is from: The Flash: Terminal Velocity (Paperback)

If superheroes are your bag, and you like them portrayed both with their classic "nobility" and a sense of the ninties, they don't get much better than this Flash story-arc. Rather than decontructing old heroes, Mark Waid seems singularly adept at modernizing them while still leaving that sense of wonder that we all (at least at one time)loved about comics. Don't expect to gain any great insights into life, and don't expect to see any revolution in comic book storytelling. This is what it is - a superhero comic at its finiest.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Origin of The Speed Force, April 24, 2008

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Zauriel (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flash: Terminal Velocity (Paperback)

First of Waid is one of the best writers in the history of The Flash. And this volume is no exception. Wally West in this graphic novel is faced with the fact even if he is the fastest man alive he can't do it all by himself. Therefore, you get one of the best supporting cast in comics with Jay Garrick, Max Mercury, Bart Allen, Jesse and Johnny Quick. The story tells the tale of Flash trying to take down a terrorist cell. The art is pretty good a little bit to adjust to if you read more new comics then old but, not bad at all.