Impulse #24

The cover tagline "Max…or Mom? Bart's Choice!" sets up a striking visual dilemma right on the streets of Manchester, with a crackling yellow lightning bolt splitting the image between two competing figures — a costumed man on the left and a woman in teal on the right — as a goggled, red-suited young speedster crackles with energy at the center. Humberto Ramos and Wayne Faucher give the composition real kinetic tension, the hero pulled in both directions amid that electric glow. Mark Waid's "Reunion" promises an emotionally charged chapter in Bart Allen's 1997 adventures that's as personal as it is action-packed.