The Flash In Five Seasons, Season 3: Gone Rogue

Carlos Williams requested a Flash comics chronology. Personally, I'm not a big fan of reading a comic about someone who runs fast. The character is much better suited for TV, and the CW is doing an incredible job with the current Flash TV show, and it's spin-off, "Legends Of Tomorrow". "Arrow" sucks, though.

During the final episode of last season, the whole speed force thing disappeared, and it seemed like the superheroes whose only powers were running fast were bound to live a boring life. How am I supposed to make a season of episodes out of this? I can't imagine they would Immediately Undo the disappearance of the speed force. Would they?

Captain Cold does his best Ray Charles impression. It's not very good.
​art by Scott Kolins


Season Three: Gone Rogue
(Showrunner: Geoff Johns)

Serial 1: The Flash Fastest Man Alive Lightning In A Bottle
written by Tony Bilson and Paul DeMeo, art by Ken Lashley

With Wally West and the speed force having having disappeared during Infinite Crisis, Bart Allen, formerly Impulse, formerly Kid Flash, is just trying to live a normal life working in a factory. But when another freak accident returns his powers, Bart becomes the fastest man alive and reluctantly picks up the mantle of The Flash.

Do The Bartman. 2 episodes


Serial 2: The Flash Fastest Man Alive Full Throttle
written by Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo, Mark Waid, Marc Guggenheim, art by many

The Flash's former nemesis, Inertia, hears that Bart has his powers back and teams up with the rogues to try and take his speed away. Luckily, the bad guys never win in a situation like this.

Inertia. 2 episodes


Serial 3: The Flash The Wild Wests
written by Mark Waid, John Rogers and Keith Champagne, art by Daniel Acuna, Freddie Williams II and Doug Braithwaite

Oh, hey, look, Wally is back. And he and his family have some adventuring to do both in the DC Universe proper and on another planet. Welcome back Wally, you wacky Flash, you.

Where's Wally. 2 episodes


Serial 4: Final Crisis Salvation Run
written by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges, art by Sean Chen and Walden Wong

Final Crisis is an unreadable, continuity intensive mess that no decent editor would have allowed to be published. But there were some fun spin-off series, including this one. THe President has decided that the supervillain population is way out of hand, and so Amanda Waller and The Suicide Squad round up the worst villains, including the rogues who overstepped their bounds in Full Throttle, and ship them to their own planet, which is supposed to be peaceful buttttttt, as it turns out, it's designed to kill intruders. Whoops.

Salvation Run. 3 episodes


Serial 5: Final Crisis Rogues Revenge
written by Geoff Johns, art by Scott Kolins

Having survived their time on Salvation Run, the remaining rogues return to Keystone City and try to decide whether to disband and live peacefully or take their revenge on Inertia.  This is one of the most fun villain-centric comics of all-time.

Rogue's Revenge. 3 episodes


Serial 6: Flash Rebirth
written by Geoff Johns, art by Ethan Van Sciver

Reading the aforementioned clusterflush, Final Crisis, did not adequately explain why Barry Allen is suddenly back in the DC Universe. Luckily, Geoff Johns wrote this whole miniseries explaining how all the flashes will fit into the world.

Please Barry Me With It. 2 episodes


Episode 15: Blackest Night Black Lantern Corps Vol 02 
written by many, art by many

Blackest Night is mainly a Green Lantern event, but as part of the storyline, all the dead heroes and villians are revived. To celebrate it, they released some "resurrected" issues, where a creative team of a canceled book reunited to tell a story about how their book was effected by Blackest Night. This volume contains a bunch of stories from the DC Universe, including Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins telling a Barry Allen/Wally West story. Hmmm...Barry Allen, you say?


Season 3 is 15 episodes with no real protagonist.