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Flashpoint time! Yesterday, Bleeding Cool looked at the solicitation for next month's New Golden Age one-shot by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is solicited thus; "from the Justice Society of America to the Legion of Super-Heroes, The New Golden Age will unlock DC's epic and secret-ridden history of heroism, launching a new[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. LITG: The New Thirteen in the Top Ten stories yesterday Who Are The 13 New DC Continuity Characters From Flashpoint Beyond? DC Cancels Heterosexual Robin Comic After 17 Issues as Sales Fall Flat Time Masters to Change Batman's Origin After Flashpoint? (Spoilers) How Nostalgia Will Bring Watchmen Into Geoff Johns'[...]

But in the aftermath of Flashpoint Beyond, those heroes and villains will have their lives turned upside down DC's future…and its past…will never be the same again But how are Mime and Marionette connected to this? Why are Rip Hunter and the Time Masters the most unlikable heroes in the DC Universe? And who or[...]

Tomorrow's Flashpoint Beyond #6 sees that conflict both explained and played out. With Rip Hunter promising the kind of sanction only a time traveller can make Something that might set up future Time Masters storylines to play out. Might we have a new origin of the Time Masters to come? Once Bruce Wayne has dealt with Rip[...]

But interesting folk at last weekend's New York Comic-Con risked life and limb by gossiping, unmasked, about the future of the cosmic event comics at DC Comics, specifically the current Dark Crisis and Flashpoint Beyond and how they may be crashing headfirst into each other So, again, this is what has reached my limey ears,[...]

But it is also the return of The Great Darkness, the ancient vacuum of existence which threatened everything at the same time in the Swamp Thing comics way back when, And while reality is being rewritten in Dark Crisis, it is also being written another way in Flashpoint Beyond Here are a few bullet points[...]

Doing it in the way that only Deathstroke can. Today's Flashpoint Beyond #4 also knows what's going on, even from an entirely different part to the Divine Continuum, over in Hypertime rather than the DC Omniverse. Well, people always die in a Crisis, don't they? While Pariah is trying to use the Great Darkness for his own ends,[...]

So I wondered if Flashpoint Beyond, having its own major DC Comics Crisis-style continuity event playing out alongside Dark Crisis (or possibly slightly afterwards). Well, Flashpoint Beyond #4 might reveal a new title for the series… or just a way to tease the title of Flashpoint Beyond Could issue 5 actually be renamed The Secret Of[...]

Flashpoint Beyond time! All of DC Comics' continuity titles that don't feature a dead Justice League are presuimed to be set before Justice League #75 and Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths But what about Flashpoint Beyond? While mostly set in the parallel universe where Thomas Wayne survived his son and became an older, more ruthless[...]

We talked about the history of Hypertime at DC Comics earlier on Bleeding Cool and how now it is being used as a home for the Flashpoint continuity, away from the rest of the DC Omniverse A place for Psycho Pirate to hide from Dark Crisis But also a place for Professor Thawns, the Reverse[...]

And in Flashpoint Beyond with Superman's craft landing in Metropolis rather than Smallville, and killing thousands, maybe it holds greater water. And in Flashpoint Beyond, that has even been posited as an idea from the TV shock jocks, spreading conspiracy and ill-feeling about aliens and Superman in particular Today sees the release of Flashpoint Beyond #3,[...]

Superman destroys the city of Metropolis in this preview of Flashpoint Beyond #3… will Batman have enough prep time to stop him when he returns? Check out the preview below. FLASHPOINT BEYOND #3 DC Comics 0322DC029 0322DC030 – Flashpoint Beyond #3 Cover – $4.99 (W) Geoff Johns, Tim Sheridan, Jeremy Adams (A) Xermanico (CA) Mitch Gerads The DC event of 2022[...]

Everyone gets an Earth? No wonder the Psycho-Pirate is hiding out in Flashpoint Beyond #2… Flashpoint Beyond #2 scan DARK CRISIS #1 (OF 7) CVR A DANIEL SAMPERE WRAPAROUND (W) Joshua Williamson (A/CA) Daniel Sampere Crisis on Infinite Earths Infinite Crisis Final Crisis And now…Dark Crisis! The epic event years in the making is finally here! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman,[...]

Yesterday's Bleeding Cool looked at how tomorrow's Flashpoint Beyond #2 ties into Dark Crisis #1 – also out tomorrow And was surprised, given the warring factions withing DC Comics,   to discover that it actually does And more besides With the Psycho-Pirate, patron saint of all DC Comics Crisis events, hiding out from Pariah in the[...]

And then Flashpoint Beyond #2 which sees DC reality rewritten to the Flashpoint universe reality again, with Time Masters jumping between one reality and the other, Bruce Wayne trying to save Thomas Wayne and Thomas Wayne trying to save Bruce Wayne, as well as their respective realities But how do they tie together? Should they[...]

In this preview of Flashpoint Beyond #2, Flashpoint Batman wonders who the hell wanted this timeline back anyway We're with you, Batman But the comic industry thrives on nostalgia, even nostalgia for the event that brought us the Nu52! Check out the preview below. FLASHPOINT BEYOND #2 DC Comics 0322DC026 0322DC027 – Flashpoint Beyond #2 Cover – $4.99 (W) Geoff[...]

It is possible that you may have read a lot of this in earlier Flashpoint Gossip from Bleeding Cool And you may be waiting on, as we promised last night, some new Dark Crisis Gossip That's coming But for now, let's have a look at some of the new Flashpoint Universe history playing out in[...]

Thomas Wayne is back in this preview of Flashpoint Beyond #1… can the Nu-Nu52 be far behind?! No, we have no idea who was asking for a Flashpoint revival Well, besides Geoff "Jeff" Johns, that is In any case, here we are Check out the preview below. FLASHPOINT BEYOND #1 DC Comics 0222DC030 0222DC031 – Flashpoint Beyond #1 Cover[...]

With Batman #122 hitting the top spot. Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Flashpoint Beats X-Men In The Bleeding Cool Bestseller List Flashpoint Beyond #0 X-Men #10 Batman Catwoman #11 Batman '89 #5 Venom #7 Black Panther #5 Star Wars Darth Vader #22 Sandman Presents Nightmare Country #1 King Spawn #9 X-Men 92 House of XCII #1 Thanks to the following Bleeding Cool Bestseller List[...]

DC didn't release anything new for this preview of Flashpoint Beyond #0, so we threw in a first look at Flashpoint Beyond #1 too It's more Dan Didio era Nu52 DC than you can shake a freaking stick at! Check out the preview below. FLASHPOINT BEYOND #0 DC Comics 0222DC027 0222DC028 – Flashpoint Beyond #0 Cover – $5.99 (W) Geoff[...]

We ran some Flashpoint Beyond Gossip yesterday How about a Part Two? Probably tomorrow But for now, here's a quick look at Barry Allen's address in Central City in the Flashpoint Universe… Showcase #4 from 1956 is the first appearance of Barry Allen as The Flash Barry Allen looked to Thomas Wayne to help out the[...]

Last week saw DC Comics republish the Flashpoint Batman with Thomas Wayne as Batman in his world with Martha Wayne as the Joker, and his dead son And it's all ahead of Flashpoint Beyond next, which is not only a sequel to that comic but also to Doomsday Clock, as well as giving us a[...]

DC Comics has decided to make some changes to the shipping schedules, availability and ordering prices for retailers for the upcoming Flashpoint Beyond They have told retailers that "to help ensure comic shops can meet the demand for the highly anticipated upcoming series Flashpoint Beyond, DC is offering a free approximately 50% overship of copies[...]

DC Comics has issued a preview of the upcoming Flashpoint Beyond #0 by Geoff Johns, Eduardo Risso, Trish Mulvihill, and Rob Leigh, featuring Batman, the characters Mime and Marionette from Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock. The full preview runs below, and in all DC Comics titles out on the weeks of the 29th of March and the 5th[...]

Before returning to the world of Flashpoint in the upcoming Flashpoint Beyond event, DC Comics will be encouraging readers to catch up with what they see as "one of the key stories of the original saga" with Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance #1, a one-shot reprinting all three issues of the 2011 series by Brian[...]

Well, now he is back, reviving his Flashpoint series in time for the Flash movie, and right from the off, addressing what happened to 5G. The Doomsday Clock has gone past midnight, wiping off the bloodspots and 5G has been averted And we get another DC whiteboard predicting the future. With Deathstroke in question, as well as[...]

But now he's back at DC with a big project that's a sequel to his Flashpoint event from over ten years ago… Flashpoint Beyond. And it begins with Flashpoint Beyond #0 from Geoff Johns and Eduardo Risso on the 6th of April, and a bi-weekly series beginning on the 19th of April  by Geoff Johns, Jeremy[...]

Dimensional Ink is finally haded to one of the biggest storylines in DC Comics for DC Universe Online with World Of Flashpoint The next chapter expansion to the game will follow the story of the Flashpoint Batman (Thomas Wayne), along with Emperor Aquaman, Flashpoint Wonder Woman, and more characters who are fighting each other in[...]

A couple of weeks ago on Batman Day 2020, Kotobukiya teased their upcoming Flashpoint Batman statue Today is the day it gets a full reveal with new pictures and a full description Thomas Wayne is paying for the sins of his lost son in his world and Kotobukiya is bringing him back to finish the[...]

Turns out it is Death Metal-adjacent, one of a new series of Tales From The Dark Multiverse series, taking a classic DC Comics story and flipping it as a darker, sicker, parody of its former self. Hitch will write and draw Tales From the Dark Multiverse: Flashpoint #1 for November 17th while and Phillip Kennedy Johnson[...]