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Absolute Flash (2025)
Absolute Flash, Vol. 3: Mirror Mirror
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Expected 8 Dec 26After a fateful battle, Wally West picks up the pieces—and races towards the future—in the latest volume of Absolute Flash from Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles!
Adrift and unsure what to do, the young speedster looks for a way forward following the battle at Fort Fox—and the Mirror Master isn’t helping that process, as Wally and Linda are trapped within a twisted dimension made of mirrors! Confronted with their past and hunted by a mysterious assailant, the Flash will need to run faster than he ever has to escape this haunting realm.
On the hunt for answers, Wally is drawn to the derelict facility of the now-defunct super-science lab, S.T.A.R. LABS. But something is dwelling within the halls of this place, and the Flash is not ready for this new threat!
Jeff Lemire, Nick Robles, and guest artist Haining bring intimate emotion and visual energy to this Absolute Universe story about loss, hope, and the power to keep moving forward.
Collects Absolute Flash #13-18.
Adrift and unsure what to do, the young speedster looks for a way forward following the battle at Fort Fox—and the Mirror Master isn’t helping that process, as Wally and Linda are trapped within a twisted dimension made of mirrors! Confronted with their past and hunted by a mysterious assailant, the Flash will need to run faster than he ever has to escape this haunting realm.
On the hunt for answers, Wally is drawn to the derelict facility of the now-defunct super-science lab, S.T.A.R. LABS. But something is dwelling within the halls of this place, and the Flash is not ready for this new threat!
Jeff Lemire, Nick Robles, and guest artist Haining bring intimate emotion and visual energy to this Absolute Universe story about loss, hope, and the power to keep moving forward.
Collects Absolute Flash #13-18.
192 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication December 8, 2026
About the author
Jeff Lemire
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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October 3, 2026Absolutely the best volume of this flash series so far.
Review of advance copy
Worse than being bad, it's forgettable.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
To Recap a few things about the Absolute Flash universe (thus far):
⚡It all starts out with Project Olympus, a secret project from a military base that is run by Eleanor Thawne (granddaughter of you-know-who), with Barry Allen a scientist on this base that has gone missing in an accident
⚡One of Projecet Olympus' interests is something called the Still Point. It is some sort of accident with the still point that gives Wally his powers
⚡All of the Flash Rogues are agents on this base who have been provided technology (or augmentation) to provide them with their powers (but something happens to permanently give them abilities)
⚡This is mainly a Wally West story, whose father is a General overseeing Olympus
⚡Grodd is a generically enhanced telepath monkey (so there is no Gorilla City in this reality)
This volume contains a Mirror Master story, a Grodd story, and some sort of Future Wally Story where current Wally is taken to aa future where The Black Racer is monstrifying and killing people willy nilly.
This is the volume where I start caring about the story. Lemire is great with singular weird stories, but he was not making it easier to lock into this series. It is in this volumne that we finally get stories being told for the sake of telling stories, rather than supporting the business of setting up the world and origins for Absolute Flash.
⚡It all starts out with Project Olympus, a secret project from a military base that is run by Eleanor Thawne (granddaughter of you-know-who), with Barry Allen a scientist on this base that has gone missing in an accident
⚡One of Projecet Olympus' interests is something called the Still Point. It is some sort of accident with the still point that gives Wally his powers
⚡All of the Flash Rogues are agents on this base who have been provided technology (or augmentation) to provide them with their powers (but something happens to permanently give them abilities)
⚡This is mainly a Wally West story, whose father is a General overseeing Olympus
⚡Grodd is a generically enhanced telepath monkey (so there is no Gorilla City in this reality)
This volume contains a Mirror Master story, a Grodd story, and some sort of Future Wally Story where current Wally is taken to aa future where The Black Racer is monstrifying and killing people willy nilly.
This is the volume where I start caring about the story. Lemire is great with singular weird stories, but he was not making it easier to lock into this series. It is in this volumne that we finally get stories being told for the sake of telling stories, rather than supporting the business of setting up the world and origins for Absolute Flash.
Review of advance copy received from Autre
4.2/5
Jeff Lemire delivers another strong chapter in Absolute Flash. After Fort Fox, Wally is adrift and searching for answers when he and Linda get pulled into a twisted mirror dimension ruled by the Mirror Master.
Lemire’s writing is the highlight—tight emotional stakes, solid pacing, and a genuinely unsettling atmosphere. The art team sells the distorted, claustrophobic setting well. A couple of slower setup stretches keep it from a full 5, but overall this is a focused, satisfying collection of #13–17.
Great story from Lemire. Easy recommend if you’re following the series.
Jeff Lemire delivers another strong chapter in Absolute Flash. After Fort Fox, Wally is adrift and searching for answers when he and Linda get pulled into a twisted mirror dimension ruled by the Mirror Master.
Lemire’s writing is the highlight—tight emotional stakes, solid pacing, and a genuinely unsettling atmosphere. The art team sells the distorted, claustrophobic setting well. A couple of slower setup stretches keep it from a full 5, but overall this is a focused, satisfying collection of #13–17.
Great story from Lemire. Easy recommend if you’re following the series.
Review of advance copy
At this point, I should just accept the fact that Wally has become an afterthought in his own book. I’m making peace with that, though, since Lemire is fleshing out this world more and finally starting to acknowledge Darkseid’s presence. I’m enjoying the dynamic between Wally and Linda, and it’s nice to have Baby Grodd back. And I think I prefer Haining to Robles on art duties? 7/10
Review of advance copy
yeah this just continues to be really fun, maybe I'm biased because my favourite colour is orange, but the orange/yellow/red spreads look fantastic on page, very engaging art here. the dialogue is also great in my opinion, gets the point across without being neither overly simplistic or convoluted? I don't know, I just love it!
Review of advance copy
We get deeper into the mystery of Still Point. Mirror Master appears. Ray Palmer and Silas Stone enter the canon and things go down with Grodd and Papa. Haining does 4 of the 5 issues and their art is fine but the eyes are all way too large.
Review of advance copy
Another solid volume that continues to find better footing as it continues. The expansion of the flash world and characters in this is very interesting and as a whole picture this story is good it can just be slow issue to issue.
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
Zoom e black flash mentioned let's goooo, a relação com a linda é engraçada, mirror master decente, groddddddddd, e fixe já ver os poderes temporais do próprio flash, o próximo volume como com o green lantern vai ser o mais peak este com o abra kadabra e o hunter zolomon
Review of advance copy received from Otros
De rápida lectura, pero le falta algo mas de peso respecto a otras absolutes
Review of advance copy received from Otros
... Ya no pego como los dos volúmenes antecedentes es interesante y una lectura rápida, pero falta algo de los anteriores
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