Newsarama has a new interview with Geoff Johns about Flash: Rebirth, touching on a number of items. Some highlights:
Timing: He’s keeping it vague, but the miniseries takes place after the fallout from Final Crisis has settled. And Barry has definitely been gone for several years, but not the 23 years he’s been gone in the real world. “Otherwise, Wally would be…old.”
Central City: Geoff Johns wants to explore Central City in Flash: Rebirth the way he explored Keystone City in The Flash and Coast City in Green Lantern.
Villains: The Rogues have been acting differently since Barry left, not to mention replaced some members. All the cameos in the first issue are there for a reason.
The Speed Force: an enigmatic energy that all speedsters tap into, “like gasoline.”
Issue #2 opens in Gorilla City.
And as for Barry Allen himself…
It’s hard to talk about Barry and how he sees himself as the Flash, because this is the story of how he finds himself, and who he’s going to be now. Flash: Rebirth #1 is just a piece of a bigger story of who Barry Allen is, who the Flash is going to be, and where he goes from here….It’s a detective story….This is Barry solving one big crime. A crime against speedsters.
There’s a lot more. Read the rest at Newsarama.
