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Wolverine, Vol. 2 # 88 Pages 6-7 by Adam Kubert, with Inks by Mark Farmer, Letters by Pat Brosseau, Colors by Marie Javins, and a Script by Larry Hama.

With the upcoming release of Deadpool and Wolverine (July 25, 2024), this back issue has gone way up in price on the collectors’ market. Adam only penciled the first few pages, and rest of the book is… um, not as good. I am not gonna disparage the other artist, but Cartoonist Kayfabe did a whole episode on this issue that is worth watching. I remember reading this off of the shelf and then sticking it in a long box. It was a forgettable issue from an otherwise great run on Wolvie by Larry Hama and Adam Kubert.

Batman,Gotham Knights #25: Last Call at McSurley's

by Mike W. Barr (W.); Alan Davis (P.); Mark Farmer (I.); Pat Prentice (L.)

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Alan Davis

the back cover to The Essential Fantastic Four Volume 1 trade paperback by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer

Wolverine Vs. Sabretooth by Alan Davis, with Inks by Mark Farmer.

Alan Davis, with Inks by Mark Farmer.

I watch old UK Top Gear episodes, and I really enjoy the Grand Tour on Amazon. The common refrain for cars that are REALLY fast around the track is that they look slow on camera. Because the driver isn’t fighting through the corners. The rear wheels never drift. It’s like the cars just float along perfectly. That’s fast for a car. Perfection is fast for a car.

Alan Davis is not flashy. His character work is not trendy. It’s clean. The facial expressions are excellent, the action is well timed. It’s a nearly incomparable blend of exaggerated realism, cartooning, and rock solid figure work. And, like the cars, to the uninitiated, it looks basic. It looks “slow”. Alan Davis is one of the best.

And his most reliable partner is Mark Farmer. Paul Neary is great too, but Mark and Alan play so well together that I sometimes can’t tell if Alan inked himself or not.

the Flash Vs. AMAZO, from Justice League: the Nail, Vol. 1 # 2, Written and Illustrated in Pencil by Alan Davis, with Inks by Mark Farmer, Colors by Patricia Mulvihill, Letters by Patricia Prentice, and Editing by Mike Carlin.

As I understand it, the Speedforce is essentially the governing energy source for all motion. Meaning that the Flash is (essentially) the God of Motion.

Barry is able use that energy to traverse time, dimensions, space, to bring people with him, or to reach into the brain of an Android designed to kill his entire team, and just push it out of the android’s head. An Android capable of giving the entire league a hell of a fight at the same time, and Barry beat it by himself. In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry destroyed the Anti-Monitor by running in a circle around him so fast that it reversed the anti-matter composition of the entity on a molecular level. Think about that.

And Wally West is even more powerful than Barry. Wally has been described as having a more direct connection to the Speed Force than Barry. Barry was given his powers by way of a lab accident. Whereas Wally was born with his, and he has gotten more powerful as he has grown into them.

Wally once used the Glimmer’s Hyper-Wheel as a treadmill to get himself up to a speed described as “Faster than Light Squared”. The Hyper-Wheel did not increase Wally’s speed, it just gave him the running room to get up to speed. Wally used that Speed to Fax himself from a world beyond the Source Wall, all the way back to Earth. And, Wally brought Aquaman and Green Lantern with him when he did it.

Here are some quick mathematical facts:
The speed of light is approximately 186,282.4 miles per second (It is approximate because of a variety of reasons, but the number serves my purposes). As a matter of comparison, the Earth’s circumference -measured along the Equator- is 24,901 miles. Traveling at the speed of light, the Flash can circle the globe on the equator 7.4809 times in the same amount of time it takes for you and I to say the word “alligator”.

7 and ½ times around the equator in one second, and that is not even his top speed.

the Flash is one of the most powerful people in the DCU, but he is just so good natured that nobody would ever think of him that way.

Justice League: The Nail #2 by Alan Davis, Mark Farmer,Patricia Mulvihill and Patricia Prentice

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One of my favorite examples of how powerful the Flash really is. Dude just straight-up aced a robot designed to fight the entire League by himself.

Flash is maybe the most powerful member of the entire league. His powers functionally make him the god of motion.