10 Comic Book Issues Guaranteed To Make You Cry

After years of DC's New 52 line, which many felt left the DC Universe lacking many of it's core and most important elements and characters, DC came back with Rebirth.

In the one shot issue that set up the return to form for the universe, writer Geoff Johns along with a team of artists do the right thing and keep an emotional core right at the heart of the story.

Bringing back a fan favourite character in the form of Wally West, former Kid Flash and regular Flash, the story followed Wally's desperate attempts to find a lightning rod back to reality, and someone who remembers him.

Facing rejection and failure at every turn, Wally finds himself losing hope and almost consigns himself to being lost in the Speed Force forever. Wally almost loses himself to hopelessness, which metaphorically is the whole point. Rebirth looks at how in many way comics and superheroes had lost their sense of hope in their worlds, becoming darker, grimmer and hard. Wally's search for hope, culminating in the hero who inspired him in the first place, touched a nerve for many readers.

Thankfully, Barry Allen, Wally's hero, finally remembers him and pulls him from the Speed Force. With Wally returned to reality, the pair embrace, reunited.

The image is powerful, and hopeful, and a wonderful expression of joy and love. It brings to mind a kind of hope that many felt lost, in comics and perhaps outside of it too.

So yes, DC Universe: Rebirth #1 tugs the heart strings to bring on the tears, but in a very good way.