The fifth chapter (issue #44), for instance, begins rather auspiciously with a wrenching description of Flash fighting his way from the ocean floor, but ends with nearly ten splash pages that relate a climactic fight in excruciating slow detail - on one page the villain Block readies her bomb, on the next page the Flash arrives, on the next page Flash tries to punch Block, on the next two-page spread the Flash dodges some cars, etc. While I'm happy to see a large collection, surely to try to stretch a story out that far the writers are going to have to justify its length, and Venditti and Jensen don't. Zoom is an eight-chapter story, of which one of those is even an extra-long annual. Such handy comparisons only serve to spotlight this book's problems. They also have the double-trouble of trying to follow not one but two writers' wildly popular stories about the titular "Zoom," and also of telling a story recently told very similarly - and better - on the show. The story is over-long and overwrought, something that's plagued these writers on their Flash volumes previous. 8: Zoom is another troubled outing from Robert Venditti and Van Jensen, whose individual work I've enjoyed on Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps respectively. I don't necessarily believe a comic needs to contort itself to match its onscreen translation, but television's Flash is so good that one wouldn't think the comics' creative teams would have so much difficulty with the same character.īut Flash Vol. There's double the pressure on a comic book with its own ongoing TV series, especially when The Flash is the best of the CW's DC Comics shows.
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