I've heard neither Barry or Wally is really as funny and juvenile as animated Flash but I want the one that's closest to it.

Also, I’d really like a suit that can fit inside a ring, and one that just appears on my body at will. Coming from the 30th century where he lived his life in VR, he has no real concept of reality which makes for an interesting dynamic between Bart and Wally. Waid has written for every major comic publisher, including Marvel Comics, Archie (where he served briefly as their cover-gag editor), Dark Horse, Image, DC Comics and Top Cow. His two-parter on Grant Morrison’s JLA is quite good though and a smooth development from what we see here.However, this Flash, John Fox, fails to even meet the various other Flashes and even manages to really mess-up the life of a mobster's girl by preventing her from talking to the Flash. From a narrative standpoint, it fleshes out the universe and history of the Flash as well as their personalities in ways that was perhaps unprecedented at the time, when the Flash is seen as nothing more than ” a good boy with fast legs”, and his rogues’ gallery as nothing more than gimmicks. Note that in the story where Wally becomes Kid Flash - he doesn't know Barry is the Flash, even though Barry is his uncle (or uncle to-be - at this point Iris and Barry are engaged). Once Waid got immersed in the Kid Flash origins, his deep thoughts and rampant narration took over, hard. The lightning bolt, the radioactive spider, the quick, physical event that "caused" the powers to show up.

The different creative teams for each section evoke the Flash of the Golden, Silver, and Post-crisis era with Waid doing a good job on John Fox.I particularly like the info dumps at the end, explaining the Flashes' powers, weaknesses, and foes. Year One as an arch-story became an instant hit and soon it became clear that Mark Waid has written a character that is love and accepted by fans.

All told, they don't tell a particularly coherent story, though the Special offers a nice addition to the Flash legacy in John Fox, and that sort of legacy would come to define Mark Waid's Flash run. It was in this arc where he expanded on Wally's origins and really fleshed out his character and personality.

The second is a six-issue miniseries entitled World's Finest: Teen Titans, illustrated by Emanuela Lupacchino. In November of that same year, Waid and Howard Porter collaborated on the Underworld Unleashed limited series, which served as the center of a company-wide crossover storyline. This triggers a series of flashbacks that retells Wally’s first short-lived run as Kid Flash (he would later go on to a much more prolific tenure as a member of the Teen Titans).