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Preview: Flashpoint #5 by Geoff Johns And Andy Kubert

Published Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:48:40 -0500

Last updated Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:07:43 -0500

I've read the script to Flashpoint #5. And I have to say it matches up fine, give or take a word here or there, so far at least. Because, here is a preview of the comic, available on Wednesday in most comic stores and Tuesday midnight, Irene willing, in a select few…

I will give extreme spoiler warnings over this though. The preview below does tell you, basically, exactly how the Flashpoint world changed from the DCU, and explains the "sledgehammer" reference I made in my script review. If you want to read it all in one go, wait. If you want it shattered into pieces however, be my guest…

As to that fractured panel, I can let you know (ooh, I feel like Jess Nevins here) that the first panel on page three refers to three scenes. One from the end of The Flash #12 – Barry Allen standing at his mother's grave, the Flash running on his cosmic treadmill as hinted at from the preview of Flashpoint way back in The Flash #1, and the Flash standing in front of his childhood home – as seen in The Flash: Rebirth #1.

While the final panel is intended to portray Superman as a child behind glass, Hal Jordan piloting his plane as it crashed around him, Thomas Wayne fighting Joe Chill, Aquaman mourning Mera and Wonder Woman at her mother's grave.

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