I love benday dots and I love pre-digital coloring. If the comic uses those two things in its art, I'm on board.

Flash continues to be great, and this event is a blessing and a curse for this book: we derail the plot once more for an event, but hopefully this will reward the series in the long run with some character development and increased reader-ship.

Meddling kids gonna meddle, but I like the twins and I'm excited to see each of the alternate goose chases. The Earth-Flash sequence was without a doubt the best thing about this issue (mainly because of the art). I love Pasarin, but Nahuelpan knocks it out of the park.

Based on the first page flash-forward, I wonder if that will truly be thawne/zolomon, or if it's wally in the zoom suit. more

Geoff Johns please be the publisher of DC comics, fix this awful state of dc comics :(

Some Thoughts:
-Seems like Thomas got zapped by Darkseid back to the Flashpoint Earth preserved in Hypertime.
-The concept of the Divine Continuum presents some interesting ideas and I think you could find a way to fold it into Morrison's Cosmology as well.
-Set up for World of Flashpoint plots: Per Degaton in SA, project Superman, Wesley Dodd, and even a possible Prime Earth Psycho Pirate? He's being used in the Detective Crossover right now if I'm not wrong, but then that would mean that this is the Flashpoint version with memories/visions of prime earth.
-Most intrigued by the Doomsday Clock mentions; Slater's watch, Mime & Marionette, and the Dreiberg kids mentioned on the chalkboard.
-More Zoom fuckery is on the way! And the Flashpoint Barry Allen stuff was a lot of fun.
-The Clockwork Killer mystery is pretty cool, someone is killing time traveler counterparts and stuffing them with gears and shit. The Scavenger stuff was a little out of place, but I wonder if he was really just working for Aquaman and ended up killing Barry and the Dents just because.
-I'm praying that Johns follows up on the Stargirl Spring Break plot threads. more

I really liked the issue so far and I'm pretty interested in it. Geoff Johns is one of the best writers in my opinion and his writing carries this issue, however the art brings the score down a bit. Let's hope its not as dissapointing as Three Jokers.

In DC's darkest hour, they turn to the one man who can still save them... Geoff Johns.

I enjoyed this a lot. However, it's tough to know what kind of bearing it is going to have on the larger DCU. Clearly some, because Thomas Wayne acknowledges what happened to him in Justice League Incarnate.

I know the previews spoiled it but I was still surprised to see the return of the Doomsday Clock Universe. I am excited to see how it's all connected. Could we be building to Earth-Johns or Johns Multiverse? I think I'd be more interested in that than nearly all the shit DC is currently putting out. more

Interesting.....The Thing is this book is stuffed with lot of references.To fully grasp it u need to know past dc events...Anyway it's good to see johns writing again....Hope that this ends well

The GOAT is back.

Interesting MYSTERY story. If you don't like mystery and detective stories, you might not like this. But first set your expectations with understanding that this is a mystery story. It includes Flashpoint Batman Thomas Wayne, Batman (what universe?) Bruce Wayne, Sandman Wesley Dodds, Flashpoint Green Lantern Abin Sur, Flashpoint Aquaman, various time-travelers, Flashpoint Superman, and Rip Hunter Time Masters team... and yes there definitely **IS** a Flash in this story. Not clear who or what universe Flash. Sandman is part of a narrative, GL and Superman by reference.

Bruce Wayne Batman begins the story with Watchman villains Mime and Marionnette leading the Bruce Wayne Batman into Time Masters redoubt to get a snowglobe that apparently has some type of time-travel powere. Bruce Wayne Batman's goals? Not clear. But he erases from the Time Masters blackboard of ideas that "Thomas Wayne will die."

Next we jump back to Flashpoint universe, as if nothing had changed, with the intervention of the Flash Barry Allen from Earth One. Batman Thomas Wayne tries to recreate Barry Allen as the Flash, but he is apparently (we'll see) stopped by an Atlantis saboteur working for the Tyrant Aquaman. He apparently fails, and we see Barry Allen's body die. However, we then is some type of Flash in this Flashpoint universe, who is nearly invisible. Is it Reverse Flash? Flash from another universe? Or was Barry Allen's spirit merged with Speed Force although his body dies? Or is it another Flash who has been or has gone to the Flashpoint universe?

(Be aware, there are gray "thought" narrative boxes with bat logo in yellow moon, but that is Thomas Wayne, not Bruce Wayne thinking. That was really odd. Sloppy?)

Lots of questions. However there is killer stalking time-travelers called the Clockwork Killer. Time-travelers Jeff Smith (1st in Rip Hunter, Time Masters), Atom villain Chronos David Clinton, Waverider Matthew Ryder (Linear Men),and #Flash villain Abra Kadabra are all victimes of the killer Clockwork Killer. Meantime, Psycho Pirate Roger Hayden jailed, and he remembers a universe where the Flashpoint issues were resolved.

A Batman Bruce Wayne concludes in a Batcave in some universe being taunted by Time Masters Corky Baxter for "what he has done" to the Divine Continuum, and that the Time Masters are going to get Batman Bruce Wayne, and they will "change his future" as well.

A lot of people have read Flashpoint, Justice League Incarnate, which you pretty much need to know to understand the story. I would also recommend re-reading: Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance by Brian Azzarello, as it recounts the last part of Thomas Wayne's universe... before the Aquaman/Amazon war which took over in the main Flashpoint series.

As one reviewer wrote: "this feels like it could be issue #4 of Batman: Knight of Vengeance."
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Pure Garbage

It looks like the book has run out of what little steam it had as a series by issue #10...This series isn't progressing or going anywhere interesting it seems. The art is also laughably bad.

This comic is fan fiction garbage. Bendis and Taylor completely ruined Jon Kent.

Completely mediocre.

Eww

Looks like Taylor only knows how to write when Nightwing is in the story

The narrative PKJ has constructed is absolutely fascinating. Layered and complex, the idea of pitting Superman against indoctrination & oppression is brilliant - Superman vs 1984.

This issue has a great moment where we realize that whatever he does, Mongul has already lost against Superman: Killing Him would make him a martyr, while leaving him alive merely allows the rebellion fires to continue growing. Superman is also in a stalemate, where he can defeat Mongul at the cost of annihilating Warworld and all of the warzoons on it vs his current plan of inspiring the warzoons to break Mongul's hold over them.

Now that we know the Necropolis is inside Warworld, does the Orchard of the Dead that allows resurrection have some connection to Element X of the New Gods? And we still don't know who the unknown scavenger from Action #1030 is.

Overall, this continues to be a wonderfully put together book and probably the best thing coming out of DC as of this moment. more

Tom King is just an awful writer and he continues to prove it here. Beautiful artwork by Clay Mann is just wasted on this garbage.

When it was first announced, I honestly thought it was going to be a romance series setting up their marriage. You know, like what Rogue and Gambit had in Marvel.
I thought that would be pretty awesome even if it still has Tom as the writer. Finally a permanent status-quo change for once and we get to see Batman as a husband and all the interesting dynamics with Catwoman within the bat-family. So excited!
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And then it turned into this weird crap. Why is Batman even in these book, and Selina is acting like a bitch and complaining that Helena is not behaving properly??? It feels the writer wanted to focus on Catwoman and her relationship with Batman but for some reason its busy in her relationship with Joker. more

I've kind of run out of metaphors to say how bad this is. Just stupid ramblings on and on, Catwoman's voice is still just awful, nothing here works. There's the beginning of a revelation here, like that's all that matters, but I just cringe at everything else.

Like other critics, the 3 is for the art. The story is so bad that it lowers what should be a higher art score.

The “story” has a whole issue to progress, but the whole of the issipue could be reduced to one page. It spins its wheels and is lost thanks to a confusing multi-timeline format. And King has totally forgotten about Phantasm.

To be fair, so had I, but remembered her because I recalled the previous covers. This issipue and series is a mess. What is DC thinking. Seriously, how could professionals put this out and charge money? Also, it’s late.

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The only thing I liked here is that we FINALLY get an idea about Bendix's plan, that's the only good thing here. Everything else is just stupid and propagandistic beyond belief. The good news is this book isn't selling and I think it's going to get cancelled pretty soon. If Wonder Girl got cancelled, which wasn't a great book but it was definitely better than this crap, I think this will get cancelled soon, too. This summer we're probably going to have Williamson's big event and if this book goes on after that, then DC really is begging for bankruptcy because you can't keep putting out books like these and expect people to support you. more

Tom King seems like the type of man unable to admit his mistakes. He screwed up the wedding between Batman and Catwoman, he continues to screw it up in the Batman/Catwoman book but somehow he still seems to insist "I got this, guys, I know how to write these two characters as a couple". We should all tell him "No, dude, you absolutely don't, let it fucking go!". And the saddest thing is he really has the most terrible voice for Catwoman. I'm sure in his head he thinks he is eMpOwErInG her but all he makes her is an imbecile character. And it seems like he has a weird fetish with old superheroes, I really don't get that.

Honestly I would've rated this lower if not for the fact that this was the last DC work of John Paul Leon, God bless his soul. more

"Ah, you're no fun anymore!" You're damn right, Damian. Jon isn't fun anymore because he's being made a propaganda mouthpiece for Tom Taylor. This book was filled with very tongue-in-cheek remarks regarding what DC has done to Jon. "Hey, not everybody gets me either" was clearly a hint at Bendis and Taylor. Those first pages were also basically Tomasi expressing his regret that his book got killed along the way because of other writers' egos and editorial choices by DC.

Honestly the best thing possible would be to use that cube and de-age Jon and get it back from scratch. His Superman is boring, it doesn't sell, his personality as Superboy was much more charming. But that would actually mean DC admitting their mistakes, so we probably won't see that coming to fruition. more

I see Tom Taylor continues with his hate of the Western world, but this time instead of shitting on America, he chooses Europe as his target, with hints that Wakanda is "far nicer than Europe" and, honestly, the idea of immigration from Europe to Africa is laughable considering the actual reality right now where Europe doesn't know how to stop the immigration from Africa and ended up paying a dictator like Erdogan for it or being played by another dictator, Lukashenko, for the same reason. Yeah, I know, I know, this is comics, not real world, but the fact that that's what Taylor imagines just shows where his mind is at. What I don't get about these writers that hate America, Europe and, in general, the Western world, is why are they still living in it. If it's so bad you feel the need to always shit on these parts, just move to Africa or the Middle East or wherever you think the good life is, see how that works out for you. And I still hate his literal self-inserts (if anyone's wondering he's on the bottom of the 2nd page). more

I have given up on Bendis' JL and I can't wait for him to leave the book (JL #74 is his last issue) but I was interested in the concept of the JL vs. Legion. Yeah, it's still bad. Nothing else to add here, all the heroes have the same Bendis voice and I won't read any more of this crap.