Jay Garrick: The Flash is a six-issue miniseries by Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui. It is published by DC Comics as part of the Dawn of DC initiative. It also spins off from Justice Society of America (2022) and Stargirl: The Lost Children.
Decades ago, Judy "The Boom" Garrick, daughter of Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick, was one of several young sidekicks kidnapped by the Childminder and was enslaved to power machines that kept her and the other sidekicks suspended from time. Now freed by Stargirl, Judy returns to the normal world to find that her parents have grown old and barely remember her or the adventures they once shared. This is a non-inconsiderable problem, because it turns out that they've also forgotten Doctor Elemental, Jay's old archnemesis, and he's been taking advantage of his obscurity to plan revenge.
Jay Garrick: The Flash contains examples of:
- Bears Are Bad News: In the second issue, Judy and Courtney are attacked by Ro-Bear, a cybernetic-enhanced bear from the Golden Age.
- Black and Nerdy: In issue #3, Mr. Terrific leads the Garricks and Stargirl through his labs, and recruits the services of his son Fairplay to help them. Fairplay is introduced having a 5-D chess match with Quiz Kid and both surrounded by piles of books.
- Blue Means Smart One: Mr. Terrific's son, Fairplay, is wearing a light blue and black costume, plays 5-D chess with a fellow smart kid, surrounded by piles of books and inside their laboratory.
- Bollywood Nerd: In issue #3, Mr. Terrific leads the Garricks and Stargirl through his labs, and recruits the services of Quiz Kid to help them. Quiz Kid is introduced having a 5-D chess match with Terrific's son Fairplay and both surrounded by piles of books.
- Cerebus Retcon: In the original version of Jay's origin, Professor Hughes was just his boss and mentor. In this version, Hughes was obsessed with gaining superpowers, profiled Jay in order to determine that he was unlikely to be missed, and deliberately arranged the events that gave him powers. When he failed to replicate the conditions that turned Jay into the Flash, he became the villain Doctor Elemental in order to study Jay and figure out why the experiment worked on him but not on any of the other test subjects.
- Disco Stu: Judy still talks and dresses like she's from the fifties. In the second issue, Courtney takes her to the mall in hopes of updating her civilian wardrobe.
- Expy: With his armor-and-tunic costume and resentment of Jay, Doctor Elemental bears a strong resemblance to Doctor Doom.
- Generation Xerox: Judy's costume is mostly just a feminine version of her dad's costume, except with a bandana instead of the helmet, a nod to the fact that she would have come of age in the sixties.
- Info Dump: Issue #4 is a big one, with Dr. Hughes's diary explaining the origin of the Garricks' powers.
- Let Her Grow Up, Dear: As Jay constantly frets over Judy's safety, Joan insists on a lighter hand, allowing Judy to have an afternoon at the mall with Courtney so that she can have more experience being a normal teenager.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: The "accident" that gave Jay his powers was deliberately engineered by Professor Hughes, who installed a mechanism that could tilt one of the lab tables on command so that its contents would spill on Jay.
- Older Than They Look: Judy was born sometime in the late forties or early fifties, but looks and acts like a fourteen-year-old.
- Remember the New Guy?: Judy was created for DC's "New Golden Age" initiative in 2022, but is treated as though she's a long-lost sidekick from the original Golden Age. The series also introduces several "forgotten" villains from the Golden Age, including Doctor Elemental and Ro-Bear.
- Shout-Out: In issue #5, Judy and Jay go to Brazil to meet Dr. Mid-nite, who refers to Jay as "Joel Ciclone". "Joel Ciclone" was Jay's name in Brazilian comics when Jay's issues were initially published.
- Smart People Play Chess: Quiz Kid and Fairplay are introduced in the comic playing 5-D chess againt each other and commenting about analysing prof. Stein's (another scientist) Firestorm Matrix formula.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Time moved differently on the island where Judy was held captive, and thus she is shocked to discover that seventy years have passed and she and her dad are no longer the world's only speedsters.
