Overanaylsis go . Disappointed about Shade . None of his charm is there . Just a walking text bubble of exposition . Which caused Barry and Wally themselves to spend way too much time talking instead of doing . Maybe next issue will be better but I had high hopes for this one . Richard Swift is a much more interesting character than this . I don ' t get why Barry is so untrusting of Wally , either . He ' s been through this before , a kid who ' s trying to help but is going about it a little wrongheadedly . He ' s punishing instead of teaching which doubly confuses me because I thought Williamson REALLY had a good understanding of Barry ' s voice when it comes to being a teacher in the last arc . Maybe there ' s something there about Barry ' s soreness over August and that ' s why he ' s not trusting Wally . Perhaps Williamson is leaving it for us to understand that context and he expects us to get that motivation . But I ' d rather it be through actions Barry overcompensating for Wally in a dire situation , or Barry not letting Wally out of his sight and noting it in his mind or something . I ' m not a big fan of Barry just going I DO NOT TRUST YOU TINY FLASH PERSON . Even Iris , rightfully , got annoyed by Barry ' s actions . I feel like all the pieces to a great story and character arc for both of them are there , but the execution is lacking . Same with Shade I love the idea of Shade ' s subconscious leaking into his powers and it endangering Hope , but him just spending 6 pages saying the same thing 3 times while flashbacks run isn ' t the way to go about it . It ' s not a bad issue , it just feels like this arc could ' ve been amazing with some fine tuning . I wonder if that ' s something to do with the double shipping and not having as much time to iron out kinks and get editors involved . I bet it ' s easy to fall back on dialogue heavy issues when you ' re trying to push a script out the door . I ' ll admit that final panel was great . I always get a kick out of obviously temporary evil turns .