'The Flash' Winks At History And Keeps Its Superhero Tone Light

Comic Book Resources – The Flash Team Promises The Most Comic Book Show That's Ever Been Made – The cast and crew of The Flash hint at what's to come in Season 1, including more super-powered character like 

With 'The Flash' free to include some of the stranger villains of DC Comics, we name the most likely candidates.

It features the mean gay kid from Glee (Grant Gustin) in the title role of Barry Allen and the former star of CBS's The Flash—John Wesley Shipp, aka Dawson Leery's ice cream-assassinated father—as his father, Mr. Allen.

HitFixs Alan Sepinwall reviews The Flash, the new CW drama based on the DC Comics superhero, starring Grant Gustin as fastest man alive Barry Allen.

But there's a catch: The Flash exists in a world where time travel is possible via a cosmic treadmill. (Just go with it.) Look to the death of Barry Allen's mother by a flash of yellow light in the pilot as proof of that. By comic book logic, it's more