Despite this, I still look forward to reading some of Waids other well-regarded runs on stuff like Fantastic Four and Daredevil in hopes that something will stick! DC is marking the occasion with oversized issues that celebrate Wally West and Diana of Themyscira, respectively, and offer lead-ins to the newly-announced relaunched ongoing series for each character.

As Rakzo already pointed, Messner-Loebs' run is also pretty good, but it has sadly never been printed in trades.

It's a great look at how Wally found great joy in becoming a hero, and a great antidote to the much more toxic characterization found in Giffen's JLE and to a much lesser extent Baron's Flash.

As I have been reading these collections, I have also been keeping up with Waid’s current monthly gigs on Captain America and The Avengers. While it's not yet complete, I know book 7 is coming out shortly, we still have 6 books that we can talk about. In this first volume of a new series, Young Wally West is quickly in danger—not only from The Flash’s enemies, but from powers that he doesn’t know how to control!I enjoyed how these issues really focus on character development instead of trying to tell a Rogue of the month story. All told, they don't tell a particularly coherent story, though the Special offers a nice addition to the Flash legacy in John Fox, and that sort of legacy would come to define Mark Waid's Flash run. I loved this one and it opens up with a tale of the previous flashes and how they fight this villain Professor Fallout and its a testament to the legacy of the flashes and well showing Jay, Barry and Wally in their respective elements and I loved it! The end of this book sees him square of against the Rogues who are powered up by Neron and have taken over the city in his absence.