They reverted back to the original numbering on some of the DC titles. I'm not sure why they bothered to do that with The Flash but not Batman. They did it on Action Comics and Detective Comics so they could publish #1000, which makes sense. The Flash started out as Flash Comics all the way back on November 20th, 1939. That's fucking nuts...that I'm reading a book that started that long ago and still exists. 81 years should have produced more than 767 issues, though, right? What's 12 x 81? 972. So I guess it wasn't continuously published, though it's bi-weekly these days. I've never been a big fan of the character. Have there ever been any significant, famous runs? The reason there hasn't is probably because some of the more famous writers like Alan Moore and Frank Miller never wrote it back in their heyday. Either way, this is part 2 of the "Endless Winter" event. A Frost King has awoken and plunged the world into an icy, death zone with monsters. In this issue, The Flash ends up at Black Adam's palace to recuperate. Also we get some backstory in the 10th century where a few heroes also battled the Frost King. There's not a lot here, though it's only 20 pages. The art is better than the art in the first part. Clayton Henry did the pencils and inks. His stuff kind of looks like Ryan Ottley's. And I'm only thinking of Ryan Ottley because he worked on a new, surprise book with Robert Kirkman that's coming out next week called Solid Blood #17. The gimmick is that it's the first issue of that book. Ottley has a Marvel only contract, so I'm not sure how he pulled that off since it's an Image book. There weren't any surprises with The Flash #767. I'm guessing the heroes eventually defeat the Frost King at the end and all is well and this event will be totally forgotten. So I guess with it being pointless, it being entertaining would help. So far they've kind of failed on that part. *
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