The Flash 334-336
“Trial of The Flash Part 3”
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| Even flash's lawyer thinks he's slime. Plus he's trying to pimp. |
The
villain behind the destruction of The Flash museum last issue is
revealed! It's anticlimactic: the Pied Piper. Piper is a master of
aural technology who dresses in a stupid costume and hat to use
special weaponized whistles and pipes. With these instruments of
doom, Piper can either hypnotize others into doing his bidding or he
can outright kill a man. Angered at Central City's mayor's continued
support of The Flash even in the face of the impending murder trial. Makes Pied Piper
angry!
While Piper takes
control of the mayor and sends him on a binge of Flash-trashing
tactics, Barry has problems of his own: namely his lawyer hates him.
All this before we even get to the start of the trial. It's not
divulged why Flash's lawyer hates him so much, in fact she only took
the case because her partner urged her too, thinking her the best
person to get an acquittal for the Scarlet Speedster. Whenever the
question is brought up regarding why Flash's lawyer, Cecile Horton,
might have distaste towards him, she becomes cryptic and clasps a
medallion around her neck between her fingers. It looks to me like
she's just daring the Flash to rip the necklace from her and figure
out the damn reason already. The mystery is show-horned in and poorly
played so far. Instead of being intriguing, it's mostly boring and
sometimes annoying. It's not much a of a mystery: it'd be solved if
Flash and Cecile could just act like adults and discuss their
differences instead of all the maudlin hand-wringing.
Although, all will
be forgiven if Cecile reveals herself to be the long-lost sister,
friend, whatever of Fiona Webb. That would make sense to me.
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| Busted by the cops. |
Why the sub-plot
weakly percolates in the background, the main thrust of these issues
is Pied Piper taking control of the mayor and using him to tarnish
the Flash's name. Denying Flash privileges of the city, speaking out
against him in public, and also sending him on wild goose chases like
the one that ends with Flash man-handling a TV news anchor live
on-air. Instead of explaining himself, Flash just takes off. So of
course public opinion takes a shit on the immature hero.
I'm not really
sure what's up with this series, I was very excited about the premise
when the story began, but now it's just treading water and stretching
sub-plots that could be wrapped up in an issue or less to almost a
year in length. This series as been disappointing, but I'm holding
out final judgment for the start of the trial. With luck that will
bring back some of the story-telling that was present when the story
started.
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| Pied Piper is very, very secure. |
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