DC reveals the covers and creative teams for the upcoming FLASHPOINT event!
While DC has revealed a few clues about their upcoming big event over the course of the last couple of weeks, it seems they saved all their big reveals for today. Late Thursday DC announced the official solicitation for the first issue of Flashpoint, and today we got a peek at the covers and creative teams for many of the Flashpoint mini series. While there is a lot that we do not know, the covers and the solicitation do spell out a heck of a lot for us. According to DC, Flashpoint is "not a dream, not an imaginary story, not an elseworld. [It is] a Flash fact." == TEASER ==
Barry Allen wakes at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. Family is alive, loved ones are strangers, and close friends are different, gone or worse. It’s a place where America’s last hope is Cyborg, who hopes to gather the forces of the Outsider, the Secret 7, S!H!A!Z!A!M!, Citizen Cold and other new and familiar-yet-altered faces.
There was a considerable amount of speculation about whether or not Flashpoint would affect DC's regular Universe —and it seems that the question regarding how it will fit in with continuity has been answered. Barry Allen awakens to find the world he once knew turned on its head. Fellow heroes and many of his friends are now his enemies, and he is forced to find those responsible for the changes. This is not the first time that DC has used a change in the time stream to tell an interesting story. Time travel in comics is not something to be taken lightly —any slight change can cause massive ripples in current continuity, with often some rather grave circumstances. Based on these new covers, the changes in the DCU will not only happen in current continuity, but they will happen on an international scale. The first issue of Flashpoint will hit this may. Will you be checking it out? What do you think about the covers? What could it mean for the future of the DC Universe?
FLASHPOINT: WONDER WOMAN AND THE FURIES #1 Covers: Ed Benes Writer: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning Art: Scott Clark and David Beaty
FLASHPOINT: ABIN SUR – THE GREEN LANTERN #1 Covers: Felipe Massafera Writer: Adam Schlagman Art: Felipe Massafera FLASHPOINT: LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #1 Covers: Eddy Nunez and Sandra Hope Writer: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning Art: Eddy Nunez FLASHPOINT: KID FLASH LOST STARRING BART ALLEN #1 Covers: Francis Manapul Writer: Sterling Gates Art: Oliver Nome FLASHPOINT: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN #1 Covers: Doug Mahnke Writer: Jeff Lemire Art: Ibraim Roberson FLASHPOINT: PROJECT SUPERMAN #1 Covers: Gene Ha Plot by: Scott Snyder Script: Lowell Francis Art: Gene Ha FLASHPOINT: THE OUTSIDER #1 Covers: Kevin Nowlan Writer: James Robinson Art: Javi Fernandez FLASHPOINT: SECRET SEVEN #1 Covers: George Perez Writer Peter Milligan Art: George Perez and Scott Koblish
The Outsider cover reminds me of when Alfred was a white mutant called The Outsider. Could it be when Tony and Sara joked with James Robinson that he should write a Alfred series that he took it seriously?
" The Outsider cover reminds me of when Alfred was a white mutant called The Outsider. Could it be when Tony and Sara joked with James Robinson that he should write a Alfred series that he took it seriously? "
I'm not digging Abin Sur's GL costume looking like it the movie costumes. I hate when they do that! Don't know what to make of "casino-owner Batman", but I'm not hating on it until I see/read more about it. I really want to see what's going with Lois and Kid Flash. All in all, I'm psyched about Flashpoint.
@johnny spam: It pretty much has to be, doesn't it? Same name, looks pretty much the same, and no one in DC looks that good in a posh suit and gloves except Alfred.
And now it really is sure, and confirmed. Flashpoint is DC's answer to Marvel's House of M! Right down to the narration, the way the on-goings will tie in, etc...
Well, at least I'm a big sucker fro What if.. and Elseworlds stories, so I'll probably love this big crazy out-worldish scenario~
Secret Seven makes no sense to me, who are those people (except the woman in the back looks very much like the Enchantress, but in this wierd world it might be someone else).
@Outside_85: The man on Secret Seven is a character called Shade I am not familiar with him myself but he was what started Peter Milligan's career and this books seems to mark the return of the character in DC's superhero universe.
Aw, Babs, you didn't include the most enigmatic one (at least the one that has me most confused and intrigued) The Canterbury Cricket.
For people who didn't see it on the source, The Canterbury Cricket is a new character (as far as I can tell) who is getting it's own one-shot and it is the creature climbing on the phone booth in the Flashpoin: Lois Lane cover.
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