Flashpoint! The Big Crossover of May 2011!

[espanolbot]

Here be the logos,


http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/01/14/flashpoint-may-2011/


An announcement about Flashpoint Fridays, in which DC will release details about the storyline every Friday up until the debut of the story! All I know so far is that it involves the Fl... *Zzzzz* *Snort* Sorry, all mention of Barry Allen makes be fall asleep.

Anyways, link,
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/01/14/headline-welcome-to-flashpoint-fridays/

Teaser of the storyline, apparently it involves mysterious forces changing the past and remaking the world. You know, like they attempted to do in the current Wonder Woman run, only people were more interested in the fact that she now wore trousers?



http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/01/13/can-lightning-strike-twice/

And thus, another summer event centred around another of Geoff Johns' personality-less white folk dawns, huzzah!

Comments

[icon_uk]

If I had ever thought about giving a crap about the return of St Barry Allen, this would just have killed it stone dead.

[sherkahn]

An alternate timeline?
Again?

Must be Tuesday.

[cuntfucius]

This is also going to renumber all of the major hero titles I guess?

And hahah goooosh this needs to stop.

I have nothing of value to add...

[sleepymax]

That logo kinda looks like a mix of Dexter and True Blood's.

[superboyprime]

Here's your chance, everyone. DON'T READ IT.

Re: I have nothing of value to add...

[icon_uk]

That's a crossover that would at least have the potential to be interesting!

[cuntfucius]

Yeah, seriously. Vote with your ... wallets, or lack thereof.

[stubbleupdate]

The last time that I was interested in the DCU at large, rather than some smaller titles (Power Girl, Supergirl, Secret Six) was the month after 52 ended and they did nothing to build on the pots of goodwill that I had for them.

[q99]

There doesn't seem to be much 'prevent war' going on if an armored WW is standing in front of a burning Big Ben!

A Themyscira/Atlantis alliance would be quite fearsome...

[sleepymax]

Also, I like Kubert's art but whats going on with Barry's had at the bottom scan makes no sense.

[long_silence]

I will say that that is a pretty cool symbol for Wonder Woman.

[darkblade]

I was tempted to give pass on Blackest Night because it so heavily involved Hal who's ressurection I opposed on principle. This is significantly worse.

[stubbleupdate]

His hand is flat and pointing away from his body at the wrist.

[jarodrussell]

Yes, let's give Geoff Johns a time machine and access to the DCU, that'll be awesome!

Ugh.

Every month, it gets easier to put off going to the comic shop in favor of buying more Trio and K'nex off eBay.

[red_menace]

Oh, Geoff Johns. How is it I look forward to your Green Lantern every single month, and yet the barest mention of your name and The Flash send me into immediate boredom?

[chekeichan.livejournal.com]

I for one welcome our continuity-futzing overlords. I suppose I should be snarky to blend in with these replies: remember the episode of Super-Friends where the villains went to the past and messed with the heroes' origins? For example, Lex Luthor yelled "Hal Jordan! Look out!" so Hal would leave the jet cockpit and Luthor gets tapped by the ring instead.

[mullon]

I don't recognize the middle-right logo.

[big_daddy_d]

You and I are in the same boat.

[big_daddy_d]

I like Geoff Johns. And I don't hate Barry Allen. I do like the character but I will forever question the point of his return. Green Lantern Rebirth I liked. I was for it, although I'm more of a Kyle fan than I am Hal Jordan, but still. This... I will say this 1,000 times over. Barry Allen should've stayed dead. There was 0 reason for him to return. It wasn't needed. It really wasn't. His legacy is a well loved respected one and I just feel like it lost its value.

[icon_uk]

It's Aquaman's I believe.

One of the things that PAD's Aquaman revamp mentioned was that that's never been an A on Aquaman's belt, since he's a representative of Atlantis, his outfit has an Atlantean letterl on it, in his case a "gutteral chaa" though I have no idea what it stands for.)

[darkknightjrk]

I presume they mean war between the two nations--and don't forget that Paris was also being flooded...

[darkknightjrk]

"And thus, another summer event centred around another of Geoff Johns' personality-less white folk dawns, huzzah!"

...I'm going to be real here--I actually like Johns' Barry more than I liked Wally outside of the cartoon or some of the JLA. I admit there's a lot of Wally stuff that I probably haven't picked up on, but honestly, Barry's story right now is more interesting to me than almost everything I've read where he isn't involved with the Justice League.

[q99]

Yea. "Themyscira and Atlantis prevent war with each other, team up and beat everyone else," seems to be the vibe I'm getting.

[darkknightjrk]

And there is precedent for it--I remember Diana and Arthur being friendly, even flirty during Morrison's run of JLA.

[darkknightjrk]

Also, let's not forget--Wally still counts as "Silver Age white folk."