[.ca] Flash, The: Dead Heat (ISBN 1563896230)

stay away from this one!!!!!:
what a terible waste of money!the story was bad,the plot stunk, the art was worse yet.a total waste of the flash's cariture.lets have him run around through half of the book racing his foe,how stupid.i don't recomend this one to anyone and i'm a flash fan.

Wonderful:
Well this story took place in The Flash issues 108 to 111 and Impulse issues 10 and 11 and have been collected here. The story is about Savitar who is in his own mind the God of speed, and when he finds out others are using the speed from the speed force and so he cuts them off...All but wally west The Flash and thats when all hell breaks loose. This story has it all, lots of speedsters like the first flash and others and you have "Speed Ninjas" who work with Savitar so all in all you get a good story with lots of the "Flash family" in it. Also you have the death of a few speedsters as well so if your a flash fan you will not want to miss the story about that. My one problem with the book is that it has a cliffhanger ending! trades should never leave the ending open like that because you buy a trade for the complete story not cliffhangers. but DC comics have published the second book "Race againist time" so you might want ot pick it up at the same time if you want the whole story.

What if the Flash were evil?...:
That's the question this storyline seeks to answer. In The Return of Barry Allen, Wally had to fight someone who sought to replace his mentor. Now he has to battle Savitar, an enemy just as fast as the Flash, but who has studied the origin of their power for years. He can do everything the Flash can do, and more-- he can lend speed to others, he can accelerate and decelerate objects, he can metabolize his wounds and heal instantly. He's ruthless in his quest to embrace the Speed Force, and will do anything to accomplish this-- including destroy everything and everyone Wally holds dear...

The Speed Force is a BAD Idea.:
This is where the story idea of the Speed Force starts to get strange and fall apart. These stories should be about the Flash, not on some strange power that he can tap into. But then that's DC for you. The fancy costumes and powers are more important then the people who use them.

A less than successful trip into the speed force:
A new villain appears, Savitar, who is obsessed with reaching the essence of all DC's speedsters' powers, the Speed Force. Max Mercury and the rest of the DC speed crew (Johnny and Jamie Quick, Impulse, Jay Garrick) help the Flash stop him. Collected from crossovers in Flash and Impulse comics, the art is a distraction. Jumping from Jimenenz (very angular with no real feel of motion) to Ramos (anime styling and definitely not appropriate for this storyline serious nature) is disconcerting and definitely does not improve what is already a weak story. Basically, these stories are an attempt to solidify the importance and attraction of the Speed Force, but serve instead as another opportunity to remove another Golden Age character from the DC landscape. This character's death is like many in the DC universe the past few years, occurring mainly for shock value. If you decide to kill off a hero, (albeit in this case, a minor one) at least let them go out in a blaze of glory, not a whimper. DEAD HEAT is far from the high standard Waid has set on his Flash run; it is needed by completists only.