Yet More Flashpoint Stuff! Regarding Traci 13!

[espanolbot]

What does this series have in store for our favourite British-Asian sorceress?




Hey, Traci's mum's alive and her dad's accepting their magic! And she's got younger siblings! Things seems to be looking up for her, despite her being deaged back to 15 for some reas... Oh.

:(

...This could be good, but still. :(
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/05/27/flashpoint-friday-%E2%80%9Cthe-earth-is-screaming%E2%80%9D/

As a sidenote: the Earth Is Screaming sounds like the title of a Doctor Who episode.

Comments

[shanejayell]

This was up on either Newsarama or CBR, I'm not sure which.

[espanolbot]

Got it from DC's blog. Which is probably where they got it from as well.

[shanejayell]

Nope. First 3 pages were up on CBR last week:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8829

There's also a 'Abin Sur, the Green Lantern' preview up too.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8830

[espanolbot]

...Okay, you're right. But this is the first time they've been posted here, at least according to the tags, why does it matter who posted it first elsewhere?

[shanejayell]

Actually, you could always post the next two pages, since DC has already put them out there....

*hint hint*

^_~

[espanolbot]

I thought that the rule was that we could only post four pages from a new issue? Kay, I'll post 'em. See how it goes...

[shanejayell]

Can always take 'em down later if something cooler shows up in the actual issue.

[espanolbot]

Kay.

It's just a tidalwave washing away a city in an event comic is causing Ultimatum flashbacks. XP

[pepperspray101]

*sees rest of preview* awwww... ;______;

[salinea]

.... Paris geography fail.

[espanolbot]

I know, right? Shouldn't a wave coming from the closest coastline get to the Arc de Triomphe before getting to the Effiel Tower?

[salinea]

Indeed. Plus the Eiffel Tower is just not close enough to the Arc to do something like that, I think.

[schala_kid]

It's Aquaman using his Atlantic magic?

Nope I got not nothing.

[damianwayne]

The artist was so gleeful about getting to destroy Paris that he/she couldn't be bothered to research before getting to the fun part?

[drexer]

Obviously Aquaman used ultra condensed water flowing through the bottom of the Seine river and then released it all at once, used it to grab the Eiffel tower from one side, and pushed it up the Champs-Elysées towards the Arc de Triomphe.

As you can see I am well versed in comic book logic.

[ficticons]

Obviously. Must have been quite a bit of work; that's some way to have to push the Tower!

And truly. :P

[nemryn]

Damn Architects, messing with everything again... *grumblegrumble*

[baxter2814]

"The Earth Is Screaming sounds like Doctor Who" is EXACTLY what I thought the second before I read your comment. Well, I thought it sounded like a quote from DW, not an episode title, but yeah whatev.

Blatant Eiffel Tower Effect aside, I'm pretty intrigued.

[jeyl]

Well, the news of DC's 50+ reboots sure went over well.

Superman, where are you now? When everything's gone wrong somehow?

[keeva]

I love the "Land of Confusion" lyric in the issue title.

Re: Superman, where are you now? When everything's gone wrong somehow?

[grazzt]

Scans-Daily Sing Along!

"And these are the hands we're given."

[beoweasel]

HOLY FUCK, IT'S ULTIMATUM! RUN! RUUUUUUUUN!! It's finished with Marvel and now it comes for DC! AHHHH!!!

Also, the Effiel Tower crashing into the Arc de Triomphe? Who wrote this, Roland Emmerich?

[arilou_skiff]

I love how matter-of-fact her mom is. It's... Nice.

[misterbug]

The title is a riff on classic 50s doomsday movie "The Earth Dies Screaming!". It was also referenced by Tom Waits for his haunting Biblical lament, "Earth Died Screaming". You probably picked up on it's connection to Doctor Who subconsciously - Mark Gatiss inserted the title into the dialogue of "Victory of the Daleks".

[auggie18]

Congrats Traci 13! You've managed to actually make Flashpoint look interesting enough to pick up!

[wizardru]

Some questions, in no particular order:

1) Is Traci 13 still Jaime's girlfriend in main continuity?

2) Why do Flashpoint Aquaman/Wonderwoman decide to hit France with a tidal wave and take over NorthWestern Europe, anyhow? Just a 'damn surface worlders' mixed with 'damn patriarchy'? Does some specific event trigger such a devastating attack?

3) In regular continuity, did Traci's parents die and she was adopted by the Dibnys?

[espanolbot]

In regular continuity, her dad is still alive though her relationship with him as somewhat strained, as he is the Ultimate Skeptic and according to John Constantine radiates an anti-magic field that causes the things he investigates to get normal explaination.

So he's hired to investigate a haunted house, and if it were anyone else it might actually be ghosts. But because it's him, it comes down to it being an insurance scam by some janitor with a holographic projector.

The fact that both his dead wife and his daughter use both use magic and investigate the genuine supernatural kind of grind his gears.

[halloweenjack]

As the last page (not the one here, in the online preview) shows, it wouldn't be a proper Doctor 13/Traci appearance without at least one slashy bit, would it?