I have returned! And now to get back to the comic reviews.

This is a full length review detailing the plot of the below comic, many spoilers!

The following parts can be found here; PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5, PART 6, & PART 7

At the end of the first series of the Flash (which you can
find HERE) we found Barry Allen (the Flash) traveling to the future to be with
his resurrected wife Iris who had previously been murdered. Our favourite
villain Eobard Thawne (aka Professor Zoom/Reverse Flash or Zoomy as I like to
call him after he was nicknamed that by his friend in the comics) was dead
after Barry murdered him for trying to kill Barry’s fiancé Fiona Webb. 

As you might be able to guess, considering all
my reviews are about Zoomy he returns in Wally West’s run of comics as the
Flash. Wally becomes the Flash after Barry is killed, melting into the speedforce
during Crisis on Infinite Earths (Justice League comics).

However, he turns up during a 7 part arc and so I am going
to have to review the whole damn thing. Now I don’t really enjoy Wally’s run so
please excuse any snark.

Issue 73: One perfect gift.

Its Christmas and the Flash family are celebrating. Wally
West (Flash Mk2 /previously Kid Flash) is dragged out for some festive heroing
by his friend and fellow speedster Jay Garrick (Grandpa Flash). Talk turns to
Wally’s girlfriend, Linda Park, and if he’ll propose, but it’s looking
unlikely. She does know his secret though. So both Flashes go and help out at
the local soup kitchen and doing other good deeds, chatting the whole time. It’s all good family festive
fun, though Flash mk2 is whining about how he isn’t a kid anymore and Santa no
longer loves him.

Flash mk2 saves a woman from getting run over, only to
discover that she has gone into labour and her husband has fallen in with a bad
crowd and is planning a robbery. They can’t move the girl, so Grandpa brings
the doctors from the hospital to her (seems irresponsible to me, like what if
they were in the middle of treating someone??). And then Flash mk2 goes to stop her
husband, Joey, from doing something stupid.

The Flashes look for Joey but he’s already clocked off from
his job as a mall Santa. He manages to steal the money but gets stopped by a
kid who’s only wish for xmas is that his dad wasn’t in jail. This pulls all the
right heart strings and Joey can’t go through with it. But then his mobster
friends arrive, feeling betrayed they open fire. The boy and Joey run only to
be saved by the Flash Mk2. The Flashes sort out the money and the boy whilst
Joey goes to find his wife. She has now had the baby and all is good with the
world (blerghhh).

The comic ends with a heart- warming get together with
Wally, Linda, Jay and his wife Joan. It’s Christmas and all is good, Linda got
Wally something he wanted and they are just kissing when the doorbell goes.
They open the door and standing there in his Flash costume is original Flash
Barry Allen!!!