Barry Allen as Mad Max and Batman heats up The Flash #784
'The Search for Barry Allen' is on.
Spinning out of the events of Dark Crisis, the latest arc of The Flash sees a host of speedsters, including Wally West, Jay Garrick, Jesse Quick, and more, on a mission to locate their missing comrade. To do so, they'll have to hop between three alternate realities, each with its own Barry Allen, but only one with the 'real' one they need.
The second chapter of the arc, Flash #784, hit shelves on July 19. To mark the occasion, Newsarama sat down with writer Jeremy Adams and artist Amancay Nahuelpan to chat about 'The Search for Barry Allen,' the worlds it spans, and the characters that live in them. Read on for more.
Grant DeArmitt for Newsarama: Amancay, you have a talent for world-building; not just in this book but in Crash and Lobo, which you did with Mariko Tamaki. Those alien worlds are so weird and immersive. Can you just talk to me about how you do that? What is your world-building process?
Jeremy Adams: Don't say drugs! Don't say drugs.
Nrama: Or at least say which drugs.
Amancay Nahuelpan: [laughs] No, no. I just love drawing backgrounds. I get really inspired by movies I've seen or places you've been or whatever and you start building it and putting it down on the page. I got the script for [Flash] #783 and it mentioned this type of 'Mad Max' world. Being a Mad Max fan, I was like, 'Okay,' We have a lot of desert, a bunch of cars, and this Spire that shows up later on.' All that stuff gives this kind of isolated or desolated scenario.
But we have these other ingredients that form this world, that build it and all that. It's something that I love to do, I love building worlds and creating backgrounds and stuff that helps bring up the bigger picture of what the story is going
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