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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #340 - Reach Out And Waste Someone!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2010

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Reach Out And Waste Someone!

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Tom versus the Flash number 340 or quick.

0:03.0

Someone throw a kid Flash costume on that bear cub.

0:08.7

Welcome back for the Flash number 340 to December 1984 issue featuring a cover pencil by Carmine Infantino, inked by Klaus Jansen, with issue being edited by Carrie Bates.

0:18.5

Our story is Reach Out and Waste Someone, written by Carrie Bates, pencil by Carmen reach out and waste someone. Written by

0:21.7

Carrey Bates, pencil by Carmine Infantino, inked by Frank McLaughlin, colored by Carl Gafford,

0:26.9

lettered by Ben Oda. We begin. Big Sir, carrying the flash out to the outskirts of central

0:32.5

cities, carrying him someplace private where he can hurt the flash, just like the flash hurt his friend,

0:38.3

the mouse, way up in some crazy-looking mountains that look like space.

0:43.2

Like this is a crazy mountain range that he's carrying him off to.

0:47.2

He's flying with his mace that's dragging him through the air, like Mielner drags Thor and

0:52.2

the Flash is unconscious.

0:53.3

He doesn't know the trouble he's in at this moment, because Big Sur knocked him out. Big Sur, who was just Dufus P. Ratchet, a mental patient, until the rogues got a hold of him, threw some monitor-bought equipment on him and manipulated him into being a villain. We go back to Central City where the police roll up on the location of the Flash's fight with Big Sur. People must have been calling in like crazy because they were fighting. There's a big hole in the wall where the fight was going. The cops were just looking at it. They heard all about Big Sur taking off with the Flash and they've seen him flying through the sky. They realize they're not going to help anyone. At this point, the rogues who are still hanging around for whatever reason, attack the cops for no good reason. First, the trickster wraps one of them up with a streamer gun, like a party streamer gun wrapping up. And Weather Wizard takes out the other one by hitting him with quick freezing hail, trapping both of them. Now, what do they do with these cops once they got

1:44.8

them trapped? They talk their goddamn ears off with exactly what they did. It's not enough for the

1:50.0

rogues to have manipulated Big Sur into attacking the Flash. Now they have to tell all these

1:54.8

cops about it now that they're stuck. So, a mere master, Captain Boomerang, and Captain Colt come

2:00.3

on and they just go on and on explaining a Big Sur caught the Flash off guard. And the Flash tried to hide behind the wall but vibrating through it. But Big Sur's wonderful helmet with all the technology, told them exactly where to punch and how hard to knock the Flash out. And they dragged him through the wall and took him off. And now the rogues are going to go celebrate by committing crimes. And they'll go off in separate directions. So I do enjoy how when they run off. Captain Cole just shoots his ice gun off the ground, I assume, sliding on it. Mirror Master's just like blasting the ground with light. I don't know what his plan is. It's very dramatic. It's a great exit from this situation, leaving those two cops there.

2:36.8

A little bit of a waste, I would say I'm your master's part. I mean, Captain Boomerang isn't just throwing boomerings at the ground while he's running, which would be pretty sweet.

2:45.1

But they like, they are very conscious with how they leave a location. They leave a party in an organized manner that

2:53.5

really nails home the fact that they're rogues with the capital are. Different partisan city,

2:58.8

in fact, on the side of a mountain where Cecil Horton's house was before it was destroyed by an avalanche

3:04.8

that was caused by an evil attorney back to the lawyer story.

3:09.9

Cecile's there with her law school assistant DeWain digging through all her stuff.

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