On 1997's Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends

This two-issue series, which was originally released as Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends and Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends, was collected in Flash by Mark Waid Vol. 6. That's where I pulled the image at the top of my post about the DC Plus specials, and, since I had already checked the collection out, I figured I would give the story a reread. The idea is definitely a fun one, a sort of team-up of two different team-ups, the original Flash Jay Garrick and the original Green Lantern Alan Scott (then de-aged and still going by the codename Sentinel) and the then-current Flash Wally West and then-current Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. And each over-sized, 48-page issue was written by the writers of the Flash and Green Lantern ongoings, with Ron Marz scripting the first part (Green Lantern/Flash), which was (mostly) narrated by Kyle and Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn scripting the second (Flash/Green Lantern), narrated by Wally. While the action revolves around an alien invasion rooted…