He went from the 1890s to the 1920s, then from the 1920s to the 1940s where he met fellow speedsters Jay Garrick and Johnny Quick. Max tried again, and again he got scared and bounced off the Speed Force. When he did so, Max bounced off the Speed Force, finding himself sent far from his home. He felt the calm pull of the energy, and he almost gave in to it, but at the last moment, Max freaked out and pulled back. Max knew this because he had gained his powers in the 1830s and while trying to figure out just how fast he could go, Max almost got pulled into the Speed Force. Max knew that everyone with super speed pulled their abilities from the same source, a place he called the Speed Force. Max Mercury believed that there was more to super speed than anyone realized. Waid saw the opportunity to really play with the history of super speed in the DC Universe, and he used Max to set it up. Created by Jack Cole and Chuck Mazoujian, Quicksilver was a Quality Comics character who was really a blank slate aside from having super speed and being called “Max” a few times, no one bothered to give the guy a background story. In reality Mark Waid, being an endless encyclopedia of DC Comics history, took a character first introduced way back in 1940 who went by the name Quicksilver. For the first time since Crisis on Infinite Earths, we saw two Flashes - in this case Jay Garrick and Wally West - team up, and coming along for the ride was the ever cool looking Johnny Quick and a character that most everyone thought was made up for the story, Max Mercury, the Zen Master of Speed. That story is important not only because it is the first time Wally has to face off against the greatest evil any speedster ever had to deal with, but because Waid used it to grow the Flash family. Waid started his run, arguably the best run any writer has ever had on Flash, with a retelling of the origin of Wally West, the third Flash and then quickly moved into telling one of the most important Flash stories out there, The Return of Barry Allen Saga. When mark Waid took over writing duties of Flash from Bill Messner-Loebs, he moved the focus of the book onto the legacy of the character and the speedsters of DC Comics.
His name, if you somehow missed the title of this piece, is Savitar. But one name is really up there for me, one that stands out because he only has one story, but his story had lasting effects on the legacy of those who ride the lightning. I also love Captain Cold and both versions of Reverse Flash. I’m a big fan of Kilg%re, a character I can not believe the show hasn’t used yet. Now, if you asked me to figure out who my favorite of the Flash baddies is, I would struggle to decide. I would argue with anyone that Flash has the second best rogues in comics. Flash has some of the best enemies out there, straight up.
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