Tom versus the Flash number 250 or rogues can have hobbies too.

Welcome back for the Flash number 250, the June 177 issue featuring a cover, pencil by Rich Buckler, inked by Jack Abel, with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz.

Our issue is entitled to One Freeze Dried Flash coming up, written by Carrie Bates, penciled by Irv Novick, inked by Vince Colleta, Eek, not as good looking as normal, and colored by Jerry Serpent. God knows who did the lettering. Probably some type of robot. From the future, we start in Social City downtown. Jewelry stores, banks, places that get robbed all the time, but we're seeing it from a totally different point of view. Everything seems to be blurry, because we're seeing it from the point of view of the Flash who's patrolling the city at Super Speed. Everything is a blur, a blue blur, but there is one thing that is not a blur. Hanging on the horizon, some letters in the street. Halt Flash, frozen in air. As the Flash runs into them, he finds out they're literally frozen. It's frozen air or frozen water in the air. It's ice. And of course, since it's ice, it's Captain Cold. As the Flash hits the letters and they break and fall the ground, he picks them up thinking eyewitnesses are right. Captain Cold's around. We looked down the street and there's Len Snart. Ready to take on the flash.

The flash tons him a bit saying,

which direction would you like your cell defaces? He runs up to him. Something happens. The flash starts sliding on the ground. I know what you're thinking. Captain Cold's frozen the ground. Flash is sliding on it. It's that trick. It's a trick he always falls for. Why does the flash continually fall for?

But, Captain Cold explains, he's developed organic ice.

This isn't the same old trick.

That's what those letters are made of, and then when the Flash touched it, the ice has started growing on the bottom of the Flash's shoes.

It grows, and no matter what the Flash does, it grows back.

So as the Flash is running in place, desperately trying to melt it. It keeps

growing. It grows and grows and grows. Flash is stuck running in place. Captain Cole breaks out

some new type of ice rifle that he's got. While the flash is slipping and sliding, he's going to

take him out. A bolt of energy from the gun hits the flash, or so it seems there's a burst of

raw destruction, and it seems the flash, or so it seems there's a burst of raw destruction,

and it seems the flash is gone, just destroyed. His boots sitting there, frozen to the ground,

icy cold mist coming up, but before Captain Cold can make sure that the flash is gone,

a fishing hook comes down and snags the rifle out of his hands. I know what you're thinking. The tricksters in a lot, not so quick. So we see a battle of the gun being dragged through the air on a fish hook and Captain Cole chasing it while pulling out his normal ice gun, thinking this person's made a huge mistake. But what of the flash? Dad, gone, is the book canceled? Does it become a rogue's book? Who picks up his boots on the street? We go around the corner into the alleyway from where the boots are, and we see the flash had survived

what had happened. He survived the bolt of energy that had hit him, or so we thought. He vibrated

out of his boots and into the alleyway, just as it hit. He's hurt, though. I mean, he doesn't

have his boots on, no socks. He must wear socks in those boots. That's weird if he didn't gross, kind of too. They would, you never get the order out of him. But his sides burnt a little bit. Like, he was blasted with dry ice. It's crystallized. He's a little hurt. He's just lucky it wasn't a direct hit. But now he's warning, where did Captain Cole go? Captain Cole would obviously try and confirm the fact that the Flash had died, but he just seems to have disappeared. Nearby rooftop, Captain Cold is chased down the person that stole his gun, and now he's threatening to blast him, but the person that stole his gun says, ah, don't, I wouldn't. Mother will get pissed. That's right. It's a sibling of Captain Cold, a blonde, young, attractive woman by the name of Lisa Snart, who had stole Captain Cold's gun. Captain Colt's pissed. He's like, I had to check to make sure the flash was gone. You could possibly have ruined everything for me. His sister, Lisa, goes, that death would be too quick for the flesh. She needs to suffer. He needs to suffer and rot in hell, a living hell that I must provide. She starts crying. He needs to suffer like I have. We see Captain Colts facade, Meltz-a-Libbitt. He says, Lisa, okay, I get it. Listen, Roscoe was a friend of mine, the top was awesome. I'm sad he's gone, but none of these schemes, none of your Levert plans are going to bring Roscoe back. It's not going to do that. So you just let me kill the Flash quick and it'll all be over. Lisa runs off, saying, it will make me feel better.

And you're going to stay out of my way. I'm going to do it the way I want to do it. Kempico's like, ah, she's a snart, she's stubborn, there's nothing. No way to convince her. And in his head, one of my favorite bannels, he's like, oh, yeah, at least I don't have to pretend anymore that I miss Roscoe. I mean, he thought the top was a dick.

They all thought the top was a dick.

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