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After a year of teasing, DC Comics begins their newest event: Flashpoint. Both Flash #12 (the last issue of the series for the time being) and Flashpoint #1 hit the store today, and I wanted to take a look at this new direction DC is taking. I also wanted to give it the same fair-handed consideration I gave Marvel’s Fear Itself before release. A few years ago if you had told me Flash would be headlining DC’s mega-event of the year I would have done the Snoopy Dance, thus revealing my true inner Fanboy. That being said; however, this is a different year, this is a different Flash, and I am not quite ready to geek out in front of the rest of the world. At least, not yet.
What we know about Flashpoint so far is this: Something alters the timeline creating an alternate DCU, and Barry Allen, the only character to remember the DCU as it was, forges new allies to try and set things right. Although DC would probably not enjoy the comparison, it does sound similar to Marvel’s Age of Apocalypse or Age of X. The main five-part series will be written by Geoff Johns with art by Andy Kubert.
