Impulse!

This time I thought to talk a little about a comic book, named Impulse. The backstory to the book was as follows; the Flash is the fastest man on earth; but Flash is not just one man; indeed, three men have used the name. Apart of these three, several other people also share the power. Living at 30th century, Bart Allen is the grandson of the second Flash and the cousin of the third one. Unlike his relatives, Bart was born with superspeed; the ability to run near the speed of light. Somehow his powers didnt work normally, and Bart aging was accelerated. Aging in three years from month-old baby to teenager, he was plugged to Matrix-like computer environment, that teached him how to talk, to write... and that life comes with experience points and the chance to save and load if you happen to die accidentally.

Bart came to 20th century to be healed, and after the aging was halted, he was given to Max Mercury, 200 year old superspeedster to rise and train. (This happened in The Flash #95-102 or so).
The comicbook starts when Max and Bart move to Alabama, to small community where Bart starts going to the ninth grade. The comic book revolves around laughs; much jokes are taken from the fact that Bart thinks the whole secret identity is just one of the ways for Max to torture him; he also has problems to understand that he can die on line of duty.
The comics revolve mainly on Bart trying to cope with normal reality, playing video games and wrapping his thoughts around one idea or another, as Max tries to keep him from killing himself or blowing his secret identity. While he is feeling particulary adventurous, he tries to teach Bart about his powers and about world...
The villains Impulse now and then meets arent that serious either; in the world of Impulse, you can find supervillains location because they have the adress of their secret hideout on their webpage.
The book is not drawn in the normal "realistic" style of american superheroes, but rather in iconic way, that sometimes reminds of manga or grafitis. The book had a run of 100 issues, and near its end it tried to find more readers by having the book to have shares stories with Young Justice, a group in where Impulse was a member (YJ was also rather comical by nature).

After Impulse ended (after 89 issues), most of the supporting characters just vanished. Bart Allen himself continued his adventures in the comc book Teen Titans. And while the book is exellent read, the character (now using the name Kid Flash) dosent have much in common with Impulse.