The iconic and fleet-footed DC Comics characters known as Flash and Reverse-Flash are mortal enemies who have been at war with each other for decades, and now thanks to a popular DC Comics artist, their epic rivalry gets a jaw-dropping animation pitting these two speedsters against one another in a brutal brawl for the ages!
Uploaded to his official Instagram account, @thedougmahnke, DC Comics creator Doug Mahnke is an artist who’s well-known in the comic industry for his badass art style that consistently brings out the best elements of the characters he draws while adding unique flairs to popular designs, easily solidifying him as a go-to fan-favorite illustrator. Currently working on the DC Comics Black Label series Swamp Thing: Green Hell with writer Jeff Lemire, Doug consistently finds the time to share quick fanart sketches of various DC Comics and Marvel characters for his followers to enjoy, as well as some fun animations he cooks up himself!
Two characters who complement each other in the worst way possible, Flash aka Barry Allen and Reverse-Flash aka Eobard Thawne, are as entwined in the DC Universe as Batman and Joker or Superman and Lex Luthor. Having hurt one another over and over throughout the years in Flash’s solo series and during epic events like 2011’s Flashpoint, these speedsters are not only the perfect rivals for one another, but when they eventually get down to engaging in blindingly fast fisticuffs, their battles rarely disappoint.
Starting things off with the pair running at a breakneck pace side by side, Doug cuts back and forth between their faces as their colors invert and the backing track builds up some steam. Running faster and faster until they both let out screams of exertion, the beat drops hard, opening the clip up to a battle that feels ripped straight out of an anime. Drawn as streaks of red and yellow crisscrossing the frame at a blinding pace, Doug animates Flash and Reverse-Flash throwing haymakers at one another with everything they’ve got before blasting off into a black void. Intertwining their speed trails and causing explosions of color as they duke it out for supremacy, Flash and Reverse-Flash finish things off with the largest explosion yet, culminating in a wall of smoke headed for the viewer, closing the clip out in epic fashion.
No stranger to drawing Flash and his villainous other half on the page, Doug choosing to go all in on animating them is a sight for fans to see, turning this DC Comics creator into an even bigger inspiration for artists who want to infuse a little more energy into their pieces in a way that static drawings simply can’t convey. A fight between Flash and Reverse-Flash looks jaw-dropping when Doug Mahnke illustrates them in comics, and now with him animating them, fans’ jaws just hit the floor!
