Flashpoint Collected
| Event\Storyline | Flashpoint |
| Writer | Geoff Johns |
| Artist | Andy Kubert |
| Paperback: | Mar 7, 2012, $14.99 |
| Hardcover: | Oct 26, 2011, $22.99 |
The red-hot, sold-out five-issue miniseries from Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert is on its way in trade paperback! This is Flash Fact: When 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 world on the brink of a cataclysmic war but where are Earth's Greatest Heroes to stop it? 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! It's a world that could be running out of time, if The Flash can't find t more
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Back to Top| Rating | Collected Issues | Reviews |
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| Flashpoint #1 | 17 | |
| Flashpoint #2 | 12 | |
| Flashpoint #3 | 14 | |
| Flashpoint #4 | 14 | |
| Flashpoint #5 | 14 |
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8.5
Good story. But don't think it lives up to the hype.
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If anybody asks you what are some of the most iconic, important and simply best Flash stories, Flashpoint is often brought to the discussion. Rightfully so - it is a great story, and one that's not afraid to take extreme risks that normally wouldn't be acceptable in anything taking place in the main continuity. Johns created an immersive dystopia and it's a shame we don't really have an opportunity to dive into it, to fully understand it and experience what it has to offer. Yes, I'm fully aware there are tie-ins to the main 5 chapter arc, but when you purchase a trade paperback, you expect it to be complete, to tell a cohesive, self contained story. And that's the reason why this particular release disappointed my expectations, and forced m more
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Flashpoint is the series that ushered in the New 52 reboot line of comics and much later, played a part in DC Universe Rebirth and its line of comics. This is the book where Barry Allen, The Flash, awakens to find that everything has changed and nothing is as it was. Barry's dead mother is alive, Superman is nowhere to be seen, Batman is willing to take lives, Atlantis is at war with the Amazons, etc. Barry also realizes he no longer possesses his super speed and must team up with Batman in order to set things straight and return the world to what it once was. The story is enjoyable as it shows us alternate versions of familiar heroes such as a more ruthless Aquaman, a Cyborg that works for the government, the powers of Shazam being spli more
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