The Flash’s weirdo villains teamed up to pull off one last heist

polygon.com:

Rogues, DC’s latest Black Label series from legendary Flash scribe Joshua Williamson and artist Leomacs, has an instant hook. A decade after their prime, Captain Cold pulls a group of the Flash’s infamously kooky villains out of retirement for one last heist.

I was expecting a fun book, but not the beautiful balance of color and grit, lightness and emotional heft, that’s demonstrated in Rogues #1. And the heist itself? Sneaking into Gorilla City to plunder the secret gold of Gorilla Grodd. That’s good stuff right there.

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Perhaps the biggest thing to crow about is work of the artistic team here. Leomacs is the full package: His character designs are simple, but unique; emotions subtle and clear. The dirty details of Central City’s underbelly couldn’t be more 1970s realism. Matheus Lopes, one of my favorite colorists at the moment, shows that dark doesn’t have to mean dull, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou’s lettering? Impeccable! Makes text feel like voice acting.

Rogues feels like an Image Comics crime miniseries that just happens to have DC characters in it. A treat to read.

Detective Comics’ weekly-publishing Arkham Tower arc is over, and it’s one of those things that I wish I liked more. Ultimately I think I found the reverse countdown chronology of it all to be more confusing than tantalizing. But