I was actually kind of unimpressed by the whole thing, tbh. Meltzer was good I thought, as slow as he might have seemed. The less said about McDuffie's arc (which i did read), the better. Robinson's was touch and go for me (though admittedly I didn't read all of it), and the massive roster change really put me off.
So no, in short, I wasn't a huge fan. Maybe I'm in the minority, I dunno.
I really liked Meltzer's run, but after that, I'd let myself hope it was going to get better every month, only to end up disappointed bar the odd one-off issue. Even Ed Benes just didn't seem up for it after a while. And some of the characterisation was horrible at times, I thought.
Still not sure if Johns is gonna do this right or use it as a Hal and Barry vehicle.
A good 'for instance' of what Johns' has warped one of his favorite characters into can be seen just by looking at Professor Zoom. He started as a fairly minor Flash rogue, but has since been transmuted by Johns into an almost abstractual negative speed force entity/time anomaly, of whom will be responsible for retconning all of DC into "The New 52".
Christ.
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