Reverse-Flash #1

Why does Reverse-Flash get an offensive attack? It's cheating bullshit, man. He should be called Cheating-Bullshit Man.

Flash's big power isn't that he goes forward through time. I mean, we all do that. And he actually does it more slowly than the rest of us, so he's not a time traveler. And yet Reverse-Flash's big power is that he can go backwards in time? I demand that Reverse-Flash run backwards from here on out. He can run super fast but only in reverse. That's the only way it makes sense and I'm all about only enjoying things that make sense!

This issue is about Daniel West and why he wants to change his past. Sounds simple enough!

Maybe you should have thought about the consequences before killing your mother, Daniel.

Now I see why time travel can't help Daniel West no matter how much he thinks it can. The only way his father is not going to be bitter and hate him is if he saves his mother. That probably means that the only way to save his mother is for him to never actually be born. Bit of a shit paradox there, isn't it, Daniel? But don't worry! Flashpoint made time travel impossible anyway! So I'm just ignoring all of these stories that are using time travel. No way they're actually in continuity. Which is great because it eliminates H'el and Harvest from the DCnU! Good riddance!

Daniel's plan isn't to get his father to love him anyway. That's good! I thought he had severe Daddy Issues like everybody else in the DC Universe! No, Daniel just wants to go back in time to kill his father. Oh. Fuck! Another one!

Daniel explains what was happening with him while all the other craziness was going down in Keystral City. He wound up in Mirror World with the Rogues and all the other citizens the Rogues saved from the Gorilla Invasion. But the Rogues just used the opportunity to rob everybody (good for them!) and Daniel didn't want to play along. Not like he had much cash anyway; he was just out of prison! Maybe he had a check but what the fuck are the Rogues going to do with that? Especially one issued by the federal government. Best to just leave that shit alone.

And that's how he got his Speed Force Powers. The end.

Bouncing among the mirror worlds and being blasted by the Monorail's Battery, shot Daniel and the monorail through the Speed Force and ejected him into the Salt Flats outside Keystral City. He was somewhat merged with the shrapnel of the monorail which explains why he can fire metal protrusions out of himself and why it looks like he's partially armored up. And that's all I need to know, right?!

Except it's not. Apparently I have to partake of his horrible luck getting caught by The Flash on a bank robbery just a couple days after Daniel turned eighteen. And I have to read about how Iris is bitter that Daniel ran away to leave her alone with their horrible father. And I have to see how Daniel's father drowned his crickets in coffee when Daniel was just twelve. Okay! I get it! The kid had a shit dad and some shit luck. But he also tended to take the easy way out and now he's paying for trying to constantly run away from his past.

Was that last sentence worth a bunch of Reverse Speed Force Points?

Oh, he also did one other thing that maybe is the thing he wants to go back in the past to change:

Instead of crippling him, I'm pretty sure he wants to make sure he breaks his fucking neck next time.

Daniel also makes me relive his last happy memory although I think it's ground I've already covered.

I bet Daniel West does change time so that he's never born which will cause Wally West to come into being through whatever differences take place in the timeline from that moment being changed.

When little Daniel and little Iris return home, they find their dad being choked to death by Reverse-Flash and Forward-Flash lying partially desiccated on the ground. Time travel is nothing but trouble!

Reverse-Flash #1 Rating: Nice informative issue that continues chugging right along with the plot happening in the regular series. So it's weird that a Villains Month issue had nothing to do with all the Forever Evil shit going down everywhere else. Especially since The Flash actually made an appearance here, so the story obviously isn't taking place anywhere around the time The Justice League disappeared.