Tom versus the Flash number 296, or I would explain why we shouldn't fight, but need an action scene here.

Welcome back for the Flash number 296 April 1981 issue featuring a cover pencil by Carmine Infantino,

inked by Dick Giridano, with issue being edited by Len Wien.

Our first story in this issue is The Man Who Was Cursed to the Bone, the Elongated Man, written by Carrie Bates with the return of pencil Carmine and Fantino. More in that in a second. Inked by Bob Smith, lettered by John Costanza, colored by Gene DeAngel. That's right, Carmine and Fantino has returned to the Flash book. Probably the most influential Flash artist.

He was the original artist when Barry Allen became the Flash and he was the artist for a very long time.

And he sort of defined the entire style of Super Speed. He's returned to the book.

And he will be the regular artist for it all the way up to 350 when it ends.

Now, his style has changed since the last time

we saw him. It's a little looser style where I would say that his original run on it was really

defined by sleekness. Everything was really well designed and sleek. It's much looser this time

around. Everything's faces are a little bit more cartoony, which isn't bad, which is very different from the original style in which he did.

The Flash had bulked up quite a bit since Carmine and Finino originally Dream is a very sort of live athletic type.

And over the years, Superiors got a little bit more bulky, a little bit more muscular.

So the Flash is a bit more muscular.

The one thing I love that he does in this issue,

and the panel I'm putting up on Tom versus Flash.blackspot.com is going to show. I love his

super speed. It's just drawn very loosely, very just haphazardly, but with a sense of motion to it.

And I love how he does the action scenes, especially following up on Don Heck, which I don't think was the best match for The Flash.

Infantino really brings an sort of explosive energy to the book a little looser than I think a lot of people would like.

I'm always sort of curious about how people react to the second run of Carmine on the book. But let's just get straight to the story. Enough of this blabby-blabby art talk, we begin the flash running through the countryside, thinking Ralph. Of course, he's thinking of Ralph Dibney's friend. He's out looking for Ralph near the Chicago area, thinking to himself, what sort of mess have you gotten into? You've been missing for several days. Your wife is freaking out. Flash goes back and is my thinking about having met up with Sue

Dibney for some lunch as Barry Allen. Now remember, Sue knows Barry and Sue knows the Flash, but she

doesn't know that Barry in the flesh are the same person. Hopefully, he's not wearing that ring

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