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Okay, after the disappointment of Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1, this is how you do a decent tie-in comic.
Following he deaths of the Justice League, the rest of the heroes are trying their best to keep things together, and even find answers as to what might have happened to their friends. The Flash Family in particular have set themselves a very specific mission, find Barry Allen and bring him home.
If you've been reading the stuff leading up to Dark Crisis you'll know that Barry is being held inside some kind of strange pocket dimension where he's living out his dream life (which I'm 99.9% certain is what's happened to the members of the League who 'died'), and as such, a speedster might be able to break their way through and get him back.
With the help of Mister Terrific, the speedsters have managed to find a handful of signals that match Barry's cosmic signature. However, some of them might be other versions of Barry, and as such they're going to have to check them all out and hope that they find their Barry. Terrific has made some special wrist devices that will allow him to bring them back through the speed force when they've found Barry.
Unfortunately, before the team can set out on their mission Jai and Irey grab one of the devices and speed through the portal, desperate to prove that they're capable of being heroes. Jay Garrick goes after them, leaving Wally, Wallace, Max Mercury, and Jessie Quick to split the other two signals between them.
The twins, and Jay, find themselves in a version of Gotham with big billboards with the Allen name on it, and some strange Batman/Flash type figure lurking in the shadows. Max and Jessie land in what appears to be Mad Max, with a bearded Barry Allen driving a muscle-car at the head of a wild convoy. And the two Wallys end up in what very much appears to be the same dream world that our Barry is stuck in.
I really enjoyed this tie-in. Whilst it was informed by Dark Crisis, with the entire drive and focus of this story coming out of it, it still told a story that fit in The Flash book. We get to see more of the inner workings of the Flash Family, particularly the young twins. The stuff that happened here felt perfectly in character for this book, and could easily have happened without the Dark Crisis connection; and that's one of the best kinds of tie-ins for me.
The artwork on the issue, provided by Amancay Nahuelpan, looks great, and I really enjoyed how the different worlds that the characters found themselves in felt different from each other in their style. The most obvious one is the dream world that the Wally's go to, as it looks and feels like a classic silver age comic, but even the Mad Max world and the alternate Gotham feel different enough from the rest of the issue to be clearly another world.
I've been enjoying The Flash series for a while now, and love getting to spend time with Wally West (he's the Flash I knew growing up), and getting to have more of him and his family is always a lot of fun. The new worlds we get introduced to have a lot of promise, and I can't wait to see what trouble the twins are going to get into, and just who's lurking in the shadows behind them.
Next issue looks set to be a lot of fun.
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