Thomas to the Flash number 256, or Barry has the look of a man who slept in an alleyway before.

Welcome back for the Flash number 256, the December 177 issue featuring a cover pencil by Rich Buckler, inked by Jack Abel, with issue being edited by Julie Schwartz.

Our story in this issue is Prisoner of the Past, written by

Carrie Bay, it's, by Irvin Novick, inked by Frank McLaughlin, lettered by Ben Oda, and colored by Jerry Serp. We begin an alleyway in Central City Miramaster, splayed out across the ground. Drunk, no, there's just been a battle between the Flash and the Mirrormaster, and if you listen to last issue, you know the exact nature of what's going on here, but we'll get to that in just a

second. So the form of Miramaster lying on the ground, running through the alleyway comes Weather Wizard and Pied Piper. They've been looking for Miramaster all night. They heard that he was in a bit of a tussle with the flash. When you hear someone gets in you find an alleyway and it's a city full of alleyways, it could take a little while to find him. Weather Wizard's glad that Mirrmaster's not dead, though I'm surprised if they think the flash would kill him. I guess the top dad. Weather Wizard throws Mirmaster on him on his shoulder, fireman style. They walk out. Guess she's waiting in the end of the alleyway.

Two of Central City's finest police officers sitting there waiting, waiting for backup.

They got their guns drawn on them.

They tell the rokes to put their hands up.

No backup is coming.

Apparently the radio seems to be out there just getting static interference.

They blame on the weather wizard

you know weather wizard can manipulate electricity i guess a little bit and snow snow static interference

that's bad bad joke carrie bates really should put that in there so one of the officers

throws on the sirens knowing that the sound of the sirens would bring other cops there. Big mistake

was just as the sirens go on. The rogue starts smiling. The sound waves from the sirens sneak up

and hit both of the cops in the back of the head. It was Pied Piper using one of his pipes. He was

able to manipulate the sound from the sirens to attack the officers. Weather Wizard kicks up a tornado.

So all three of them take off in a tornado towards the outskirts of town, knocking over police cars on the way, and we see where they are.

Where the other rogues have hidden out in an empty silo in the edge of town.

When the rogues go looking for a hideout, they have a very specific thing they like. They are rustic charm.

They have just a touch of rustic charm to them. They enjoy abandoned silos, caves, log cabins,

windmills. They have an ammo when it comes to how they want their hideout to be, which I find funny. Which one of the rogues do you think is the one who has sort of the fixation on rustic charm? I'm going to say it's Captain Cold. I don't know why. I mean, he doesn't seem like he would, but I think there's an outside chance. So whether wizard, Miramaster, Pied Piper arrive, waiting for them is, of course, Captain Cold and the Trickster. They're discussing a little bit that Pied Piper and Weather Wizard are pissed off as they spent all night looking for Miramaster. They drew straw, so Trickster and Captain Cold are waiting. They throw a mirrormaster down on the ground. They're a little concerned. They think maybe he's in a coma. Tricks just like, well, let's take a look at his eyes.

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