The Flash: Time Flies #1

The Flash: One-Shots

by John Rozum, Seth Fisher

Wally West, the Flash, investigates why time itself seems to be moving at an accelerated rate! Flung ahead in time to an amazing future world, Wally seeks a fugitive from our era who is behind this temporal anomaly. A man, thanks to the very same Speed Force that Wally taps into, who moves every bit as fast as the Flash! But it's a vastly different world they're on, where both men are complete strangers who don't know the rules! And they'd better be quick studies, before they're exploited by futuristic forces who want to control them both!

Genres: Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

J. Rozum is an American writer of comic books and graphic novels who is best known for his work for Milestone Comics, where he wrote Xombi and Kobalt. He has also worked for Topps Comics (where he wrote a comicbook adaptation of The X-Files) and Marvel Comics. In 2009, NBC announced that they were beginning an adaptation of Rozum's Vertigo Comics series: Midnight, Mass.
He also wrote Static Shock, Superman and others.

Reviews

[Drew Canole · Rating 2 out of 5]

AAAAAAHHHHHHH

I hate seeing such wonderful artwork in a shit story. This is fake scientific speak just irritates me. But... that wonderful artwork - that's what I'll remember.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've never been a huge Flash fan, but this would be the way to get me into it. A prestige graphic novel with a underrated but outthere writer (John Rozum), a great artists, and a high concept.

Seth Fisher unfortunately didn't get to draw much before his passing, but he got to work with a lot of quirky writers.

This is similar to what happened with "Will World" (also by Fisher) that it's perhaps a little too eccentric. It tries to do what Grant Morrison or such would do, but without the mastery, so it feels a little impenetrable or hard to read at times--yet its still brimming with mondo ideas.

[Mega · Rating 3 out of 5]

OH DEAR GOD, what the fuck is up with you this guy's face?! And not just his face either, but everyone's face in this comic, they all look so........ ugly! It's like everybody got stung by a bee, I hate looking at it, if you couldn't tell. Also, this dude was willing to sacrifice everything in the entire universe just because he didn't want to deal with the stress in his life. Oh, boo hoo, is little baby civilian gonna cry? Having to go back to your normal life and do normal things? GET OVER IT! If I gotta put up with it, so do you!

Issue #1

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

This flash comic was pretty good. I enjoyed the different art style. The story was interesting but nothing new. I enjoyed it but I was not blown away. Still fun to read for any fan of the Flash.

[Reyel2107 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love all the Seth Fisher work even if I have to run for it !!!!!

[Terry Collins · Rating 3 out of 5]

A classic "done in one" FLASH in the future story. Nothing special story wise, but the art is clean and detailed in the Geoff Darrow mold. An average, solid tale - hardly rated the deluxe format. There's a curmudgeonly part of me that keeps thinking we got this kind of Flash story on a monthly basis back when comics were actually created by and for readers instead of the decompressed story telling that drags on for years in the modern mold. So, high praise - this reads like a Silver or Bronze Age DC comic!

[Karl · Rating 3 out of 5]

John Rozum is an ideas man (See Xombi et al). Unfortunately, this prestige format Flash story, is essentially an appeal to people to "slow down" with some nice art by the late Seth Fisher.

I expected more. The Flash present in this story is Wally West, but it could have been Barry, Bart or Banana Man hiding under a Flash costume, as there was nothing really distinguisable about Rozum's Wally West.

Still, I am always interested in his work.

[Robert Marsh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seth Fisher's artwork saves this title. I want to give it another star just for the artwork, but the story is so incomprehensible that it drags the book down.