Ray: “Dark Moon Rising”, the current Flash crossover, definitely continues the strange and surreal tone of this series under Simon Spurrier – but it also escalates that to a cosmic level, with Eclipso having taken over the moon and launched a massive war on reality. The only thing standing in his way – the Flash, or rather all the Flashes. This not only includes the whole team, but Wally West has taken full advantage of his new ability to split himself into multiple copies and built an army of his duplicates – sending them in massive waves to take on the enemy, no matter how many of them get killed off. This has made him more than a little unhinged, and is wearing on his relationships with his friends and family. It’s worrying them enough that they call in some extra backup for an intervention – Barry Allen, who lost his powers during Absolute Power and has been adjusting to life as a normie ever since.

This is an interesting issue that’s been dealt with extensively with the character of Multiple Man over at the competition – the idea of when exactly these “dupes” become their own person. Most of them don’t make it past the first wave of attack, and those that do are quickly absorbed back into Wally Prime. Wally’s cavalier attitude clearly disturbs Barry, as he thinks the Flashes were never meant to be soldiers. But when a thought-dead Wally shows up, having gotten further into Eclipso’s base than anyone else, things taken an interesting new turn. Wally wants to quickly absorb what this leftover has to share, but it’s been so long since they were one and the same that this character is ready to go “rogue”. There are some very interesting elements in this issue, including a close-up look at some of the villains, but what makes this issue work is how it still manages to make this very cosmic topic feel human.

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