Forget Superman: Flash Is So Fast, He Can Beat HIMSELF In a Race
The Man of Steel and The Fastest Man Alive have had their fair share of races over the years, but when Flash competes against himself in the far-flung future, it’s clear that Superman can never stack up against Wally West’s top speed. Running faster than the eye can see is an impressive Flash trademark, but running faster than what your past self is capable of is an entirely different feat altogether!
Shown in the tie-in issue to DC Comics’ DC One Million event where fans are treated to stories set hundreds of centuries in the future depicting new and old Justice League heroes alike, Flash #1,000,000, by Mark Waid, Michael Jan Friedman, and Josh Hood shows Wally West aka the Flash as he takes in the sights and sounds of a futuristic version of the planet Mercury. Now terraformed and populated by transplanted Earthlings, this issue opens up with Flash putting on a show for a crowd by taking part in a seemingly normal enough race with just one alteration: Flash is running against himself.
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Quite literally sprinting against the past version of himself, Flash’s inner monologue does a great job of explaining how this undertaking is even possible in the first place as he bolts across the planet's surface at a breakneck pace. And unlike the many races Flash and Superman have run together previously where the debate of who truly is the fastest hero is often sparked, Flash isn’t holding back this time around, and it shows.
Telling readers that he can be in two places at once because he’s technically “already run this race,” Wally explains, “I’ve circled Mercury at my usual awesome pace. But since I can skirt the edge of the time barrier when I go flat
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