Okay, I regret my lukewarm review of #1 - I've never read a Flash before, and after a few re-reads, I loved the story and really loved the art. Put me down as a BIG fan of the lightning, btw. I like how it comes off of him, lights up the suit, and how it crackles on stuff he interacts with or crashes through. The art in #2 is as good or better, and the coloring can't be praised enough for its artfulness or what it adds. The dialogue and story are slipping, though - there is clumsiness with the whole "guy who drowned" and "his girlfriend" thing, I don't know HOW Barry started to work his cognitive expansion (or whatever it was called), just because it was mentioned to him, and there were some very clunky things said by a few characters. I'll stick with this arc for the art alone, then likely move on.