Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Flash #11!I read Flash Comics for a while and I have to say, the latest revelation about his powers is probably the creepiest interpretation I’ve ever read. The last year of The bottle has made some wild changes to the speedster’s mythos, but this new development makes the Speed ​​Force incredibly terrifying.
in The Flash #11 By Simon Spurrier and Ramón Pérez, Wally West is weaponized and implanted with the crown of Thawnes. The masterminds behind Flash’s torment, the Ark Angles, guide him as Wally runs and attempts to break into the Speed ​​Force and release their weapon. Along the way, the Arc Angles compare speedsters to parasites that leach off the Speed ​​Force. But the Arc Angles hypothesizes that the relationship is built on reciprocity. The Speed ​​Force gives The Flash and other speedsters powers while acting as living ‘sensory organs’ To join the Speed ​​Force to the world.
The Flash is a living nervous system for the Speed ​​Force
The Speed ​​Force may have given The Flash and the DC Universe’s many speedsters their powers, but the exact relationship between the two was in flux. Sometimes it’s simply an energy source, other times it’s a sentient phenomenon that uses speedsters as living avatars. But whatever the truth is, the Speed ​​Force has become a target of the cosmic beings known as the Arc Angles. Believing that time was the source of all suffering, They chose to cut time at the source by eliminating the Speed ​​Force By weapons the fastest speedster that ever lived, Wally West.
Of course, the things we hear about the Speed ​​Force here are from the perspective of the Arc Angles. But at the same time, what they say makes sense, even if it is disturbing. I’m all on board with the idea that the Speed ​​Force is sentient and even that it consciously chooses speedsters. But the idea that it doesn’t want them for justice or meaning, but to act as organs like eyeballs and skin is a bit… icky. I guess it’s better than the Speed ​​Force being a source of evil, But it puts the Flash family in a creepy new light.
The Flash’s powers are part of an uncomfortable dynamic
I guess there are worse things in the world than the sensory organs of the Speed ​​Force (it means getting cool powers). But none of the speedsters have a say in that dynamic. If you ask someone if they want speed powers, sure, they’ll probably say yes. But you’ll probably get a much different answer once you find out that the trade-off is used to help an apparition of God interact with the physical world. I guess the Flash family is fine with it, but I think it’s a very disturbing way of twisting it flash s Powers.
The Flash #11 is available now from DC Comics.