DC ESSENTIALS: REVERSE FLASH ACTION FIGURE
Designed by Jason Fabok and sculpted by Paul
Measures Approximately 6.96” Tall
USA- $26.00 US • On Sale JULY 2018 from DC Collectibles
UK – £20 available to pre-order from forbidden planet already, release in August.
Ok so this issue is basically the end of one arc and the set up for the return of Eobard Thawne (aka the Reverse Flash/Professor Zoom) during a cross over with Batman comics. So this review is going to be short as the Eobard component of this comic is short.
Barry Allen (aka The Flash) and Wally West 2 (aka Kid Flash) are on an adventure with George “Digger” Harkness, the rogue commonly known as Captain Boomerang. After some fighting with other bad guys Wally finally gets a calm moment with Digger to ask him questions. Wally wants to know about Daniel West (aka Reverse Flash) because he was in the Suicide Squad with Digger. Digger doesn’t want to talk about it but on finding out he is Wally’s dad he decided to tell him.
Digger explains that Daniel West is dead, killed when he tried to save a bunch of innocent people from an explosion whilst on a mission. Wally is understandably distraught and runs off. Barry pursues him and they have a heart to heart chat. Feeling that it is the right time, Barry finally reveals to Wally that he is the Flash. However that doesn’t go too well as despite hugs, Wally calls Barry out for lying and runs off.
Meanwhile, in Iron Heights Penitentiary, there is a lightning strike in Eobard’s cell that destroys everything. Standing amongst the wreckage is Eobard Thawne, but not N52 Professor Zoom (silver hair, black and yellow outfit with red diamond logo). This time it is old school pre-flashpoint Eobard and we know this cause he says he remembers being killed by Thomas Wayne. I haven’t reviewed Flashpoint yet as I was trying to review everything in order, but I wanted to keep up with the modern stuff too. Anyway, I have no idea what happened to N52 Eo. Were they combined into one Eo or was he destroyed? I did like the N52 outfit though but it is good to see old Eo back and full of malevolence.
Got this guy on eBay. I love the stylised design. He is from the DC Universe Action League series.
Adorable pictures from Matt’s Instagram HERE
More awesomeness from Matt’s instagram 💛
DC Lil Bombshells series 1.5 Reverse Flash variant. I want this so much and then I want to cosplay it.
18th of February is Eobard’s birthday and a great excuse for cake 💛
From the DC comics Twitter – “The lenticular cover of BATMAN #22, part of a #DCRebirth crossover with THE FLASH. And that’s why you don’t mess with timelines, BARRY.”
The cover image I didnt know I needed but I totally did. I love Flashpoint Eobard.
This is a full length review detailing the plot of the below comic, all spoilers!
This issue starts with Barry Allen and Iris at the cinema when suddenly a giant rampant horse monster charges in and destroys the building. Barry becomes the Flash and saves the day but can’t stop the horse creature. So he send out a distress signal and Hal Jordan, a.k.a. Green Lantern, turns up to help.
He can’t stop it either but they do find a clue, its collar says it is a Syntho-Steed, created in the 25th Century. So the pair travel to the future and find a race course that has a steed missing.
What they find is that horses don’t exist in the 25th century, however they wanted something to race. A convict offered to create a racing creature from his workshop behind bars, a convict named Eobard Thawne.
Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give Eobard access to a genetics lab whilst in prison? I do have some serious concerns about future prison, especially as this project was so loved by the public that they gave Eobard a full pardon and released him. So Barry and Hal go to find Eobard who is living it up, wearing an outfit that Jareth from Labyrinth would be proud of.
Eobard agrees to help out by going back to 1973 and taming the steed, but in exchange he wants a sculpture. The sculpture however is not for sale and so Green Lantern will have to steal it. I do love how Eobard keeps stealing artworks. Green Lantern agrees as there is no choice and then power beams the speedsters back to the 70’s. I never knew that the Green Lantern ring had time travel powers….
So Green Lantern goes to steal the wings, only to be stopped by another Green Lantern, the future protector of the sector. However, Hal manages to outwit this newbie and flies off with the statue only to be power beamed in the back!
Meanwhile Barry and Eobard get back to 1973 just in time as the steed is about to trample a town. They go to attack it but the steed has some sort of field that prevents their powers working properly, leaving both speedsters running in circles.
Barry has a eureka moment and works out that by vibrating together they might be able to take it on (yeah, I have no idea where the logic is there). This bonds the two speedsters together temporally back to back so they can both use their speed to be even faster.
The plan works and it isn’t long before they’ve knocked the steed down. As it is an artificial creature Eobard admits that it will melt under great heat and so they vibrate and stomp their feet until the creature dissolves.
All the while we are privy to Eobard’s thoughts revealing that this whole thing was a set up and he sent the rampaging steed back in time.
Hal returns with the wings but upon handing them over they dissolve as well, causing Eobard to both curse and blurt out that they had ruined all the hard work he put into the scheme. He manages to stop himself mid confession and tries to run off but Barry pursues him.
Barry catches him and strips him of his outfit, robbing him of his powers (as they come from his suit still at this point). Barry knocks him out and drags him back to future jail.
In the end it turns out that the sculpture didn’t survive time travel with Hal cause it was yellow and he couldn’t protect it. Hal survived as he had programmed his ring to teleport him to Barry if he got hit by a power beam. They agree to replace the sculpture with some 20th century art and all is good again.
Everything Eobard 