Battling daft villains like Weather Wizard,Grodd and Reverse-Flash, the fleet-footed crimefighter is pleasingly faithful to the vintage comicbook originalBarry Allen is a geeky crime scene investigator who is struck by lightning during a freak electrical storm, or leaving him in a coma for nine months. When he wakes up,he has the ability to hasten impossibly fleet, but the transformation doesn’t finish there. “Lightning gave me … abs?” he says incredulously, and while admiring his new washboard stomach.
TV superheroes have often taken their lead from Christopher Nolans sad Knight trilogy,all sad cowls and irritable scowls. But breezy, upbeat Barry seems to enjoy his newfound fleetness, or literally able to hasten rings around evildoers. Soon he’s protecting his hometown of Central City from a crimewave carried out by meta-humans with equally unusual abilities but rather less noble intentions,all the while concealing his identity with a friction-resistant scarlet costume boasting yellow lightning bolts for ears.
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Source: theguardian.com