The Flash Vol 3 Gorilla Warfare Trade Review
By Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato
#13-19 $25
We already reviewed this trade for our February Trade of The Month podcast. Even though we already reviewed it I thought I would do a full written review for you all since it turns out that we never picked up or read the last two issues that this volume consists of.

A big part of the story telling especially with this title has been the very smooth, beautiful, strong, intense, cinematic, and brilliant art. I have never seen art so magnificent and genius in comics before reading the NEW52 Flash book. The panel design, structure, lay outs, and spreads are the most unique, smart, gorgeous, and creative I have ever seen in comics. The introduction splash pages are sensational, vivid, impressive, intelligent, incomparable visages of art. I could talk about the art all day. There's not enough complimentary words in the dictionary for the art in this title. It's easy on the eyes and easily the best there is out there. Few and far between have done story telling in such a way with all of its beauty and pure magnificence. You could easily ignore the text and get the story just by the visuals and honestly it’s easy getting caught up in them.

That being said there's no doubt you should go out and get this as soon as possible. I assure you there’s nothing out there like it right now. This title reads brilliantly in trade. The only downside is that it's obviously knee deep in one hell of a crisis from a setup that has been a long time coming all the way from the first volume when Iris disappeared. They could have easily ended this volume after the resolution with Grodd but they whet your appetite for the next story arc instead. Those last two stories may not be drawn by Manapul & Buccellato but they're good in their own right and it means to send a different message as does one other time during the Grodd invasion. I’m not one for artist change ups in the middle of a story or arc but when it's a thematic change that is meant to change the tone then I'm all for it as I was after realizing that is exactly what they did. The creative team is a juggernaut of genius story telling and beautiful art. Don’t miss it because you will regret it. The whole time I wasn’t picking this title up in issues I was missing it and now I’m glad to have it back and in even better form.
Verdict: STRONG BUY
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