Abstract
- The Flash #3 confirms that there’s nonetheless extra to the Velocity Power, even for knowledgeable speedsters like Wally West.
- The Velocity Power, launched within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, has advanced over time and has develop into a basic power within the DC Universe.
- The Velocity Power is continually altering and shifting, reflecting the character of the Flash himself and retaining the DC Universe dynamic.
Warning: comprises spoilers for The Flash #3!
DC has lastly admitted the reality about Flash’s Velocity Power–and now followers can cease arguing. The introduction of the Velocity Power was one of many greatest developments within the character’s historical past, a rational rationalization for the way Flash’s powers work. Now, Wally West is studying there’s nonetheless much more to the Velocity Power than he thought, and that is confirmed in The Flash #3.
The Flash #3 is written by Si Spurrier and drawn by Mike Deodato. Irregularities within the Velocity Power have gotten extra commonplace, and Wally consults with Max Mercury about it. Mercury, who has lifetimes of expertise with the Velocity Power, admits to Wally that nobody “understands” how their powers, and by extension the Velocity Power, work.
Mercury confides that he too has been detecting indicators of misery within the Velocity Power.
The Velocity Power Is Nonetheless An Enigma
Mark Waid made many contributions to Flash’s mythos, and the Velocity Power is first amongst them. Launched throughout his and Mike Wierringo’s acclaimed mid-Nineteen Nineties run on the character, the Velocity Power has advanced over time. Initially the supply of speedsters’ powers, it has develop into one of many basic forces of the DC Universe, essential to the circulation of time itself. Max Mercury is maybe the speedster who is aware of probably the most in regards to the Velocity Power–and he admits he doesn’t know every part.
Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato’s first three problems with The Flash have confirmed Max’s level: there’s far more to the Velocity Power than we thought. Flash has begun growing new powers, reminiscent of the flexibility to step exterior actuality itself. Moreover, he has encountered unusual, god-like beings within the Velocity Power, calling themselves the Stillness. Determined for solutions, Wally has turned to each his boss Michael Holt (Mister Terrific) and Max Mercury. Whereas Holt takes a extra scientific, rational strategy, Mercury approaches the Velocity Power in a reverential vogue. Different speedsters, reminiscent of Jesse Fast, have their very own methods of utilizing the Velocity Power.
The Velocity Power Is Always Altering, Always Transferring–Identical to the Flash
Max Mercury confessing that not even he is aware of the total energy of the Velocity Power is a sly shout-out to its continually altering nature. Because the Nineteen Nineties, different writers, reminiscent of Geoff Johns, Frances Manapul, Scott Snyder and now Si Spurrier, have added new layers to it because the story calls for. Slightly than compromise the unique idea of the Velocity Power, these adjustments honor it: the Velocity Power is about motion and never sitting nonetheless. The Velocity Power’s regularly shifting nature not solely retains the DC Universe shifting, however displays the actual world as effectively. The Velocity Power continues to be the frontier for Flash, shifting and altering together with him.
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