{"id":931,"date":"2009-04-30T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2010-08-02T01:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T05:17:01","slug":"reviews-flash-rebirth-1-and-zero-hour-mini-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/30\/reviews-flash-rebirth-1-and-zero-hour-mini-series\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEWS: Flash Rebirth #1 and Zero Hour mini-series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fortressofbaileytude.com\/viewsfromthelongbox\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Views from the Longbox\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/views_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Michael Bailey (of the <a title=\"Views from the Longbox Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/fortressofbaileytude.com\/viewsfromthelongbox\/\">Views from the Longbox podcast<\/a>) and I recently teamed-up to record our thoughts about <strong><em>Flash Rebirth<\/em> #1<\/strong> and the 1994 mini-series <strong><em>Zero Hour<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Flash Rebirth Review at Views from the Longbox \" href=\"http:\/\/fortressofbaileytude.com\/viewsfromthelongbox\/?p=241\">Our <em>Flash Rebirth<\/em> #1 review went about 27 minutes and can be found by clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0 For the next five months or so, we&#8217;ll be recording episodes to talk <em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>issue-by-issue about the Geoff Johns\/Ethan Van Sciver fueled <em>Flash: Rebirth<\/em>.  In this review we give our thoughts on the first issue of a series, the writing, theories about what is to come, what we liked, what we didn&#8217;t like, the art and even give a shout or two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Zero Hour Review on Views from the Longbox\" href=\"http:\/\/fortressofbaileytude.com\/viewsfromthelongbox\/?p=250\">Our <em>Zero Hour<\/em> review can be found by clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0 Both Mike and I were firmly entrenched into the DCU back in 1994 when DC published their world-shaking crossover, <em>Zero Hour<\/em>.\u00a0 So this mini-series really meant a lot to us both.\u00a0 Our <em>Zero Hour<\/em> review went a mammoth 1 hour and 46 minutes, but it&#8217;s jam-packed with serious Way-Back-Machine material and we had a blast recording it.\u00a0 We cover the mini-series from all angles: the lead up, the story, the bad, the good and the ramifications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, feel free to drop by the <a title=\"Views 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