The Comics Waiting Room talks to newly minted Flash writer Tom Peyer about a variety of subjects, including the current status of the book and where he plans to go with it:

BJ: What is the status quo of the Flash at the beginning of your story?

TP: Wife, two kids. The twins have super-powers; variations on aspects of super-speed. Like, Iris can vibrate through objects and Jai can accelerate his metabolism to bulk up into a super-strong Blockbuster Jr. But their metabolisms are so unstable that their powers could change tomorrow. And, sadly, they age in dramatic bursts. They’re really only a couple of years old, but they look and act about 8 and 10. Which means they could conceivably die of old age at any time. So Flash and Linda are trying to give them the fullest lives possible, just in case–even letting them work as super-heroes alongside their dad.

I’m not doing anything dramatic to bust up the status quo. I think it’s a good, fresh one. But Mark was taking it in a solid Incredibles/Fantastic Four direction, and it’s suggesting different things to me. Mine will be messier; in a good way, I hope. And we’ll have more Flash solo action than Mark might have planned. But since I didn’t take the charge-in-and-break-everything approach, which I usually hate anyway, I think it takes about two and a half issues for my-approach-not-Mark’s to come through unmistakably.

He also touches on the similarities between Flash and his long-canceled but fondly remembered Hourman series.

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