IGN has posted an interview with editor Eddie Berganza about upcoming Blackest Night tie-ins, including a cover gallery of all the Blackest Night-related covers coming in December.
Including Blackest Night: The Flash, with a cover that looks…oddly familiar!
If you look at the full-sized image, you can see “Thanks, Ethan” under Scott Kolins’ signature. I’ve got to say, Kolins looks like a perfect choice for this mini.
Full solicitations will be out on Monday.
So who wants to start taking bets on which Flash is in the reverse pose?
Update: I didn’t notice at first, but the second page of the article has the solicitation text for the issue:
Blackest Night: The Flash #1
Written by Geoff Johns
Art and cover by Scott Kolins
Variant cover by Francis Manapul
The Flashes of Two Cities – Barry Allen and Wally West – battle the undead Rogues. Will the legendary speedsters be able to handle the Black Lantern Rogues’ revenge?
Plus, witness the resurrection of Barry’s greatest enemy, the Reverse Flash in this hyper-speed miniseries event reuniting the fan-favorite Flash creative team of Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins!
This issue will ship with two covers. For every 25 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by Scott Kolins), retailers may order one copy of the Variant Edition (with a cover by Francis Manapul).
On sale December 2 – 1 of 3 – 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Notes: Francis Manapul, of course, was recently announced as the artist on the new, ongoing Flash series. And may I say I like the description of Barry and Wally as the “Flashes of Two Cities.”
Well its obviously someone dead, which points to Prof. Thawne, but I’m going to say Wally just for sheer shock value.
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Hopefully this isn’t the debut of wallys first costume.
sorry first=new lol
Man, I love Kolins. This is going to be great.
As for who that is, I’m pretty sure that’s Wally. It kind of makes sense now.
Just read the solicitation. Never mind to my first comment. Although, I do think there is some merit to all this speculation about Wally maybe dying in Flash: Rebirth, it seems from the solicit that this cover is of Professor Zoom.
I must have clicked on the wrong link earlier — I thought I was looking at page 2 when I saw the gallery!
Pretty cool cover, but no mention of Jay? It will be interesting to see how this mini-series and the ongoing handles multiple Flashes living pretty much next door to each other.
Weird… doesn’t that kind of spoil the ending of Rebirth, then, since Thawne is the villain over there?
Not necessarily. Thawne’s a time traveler, and he has implied that, from Barry’s perspective, his own resurrection hadn’t happened yet.
Didn’t look back at the issue but I think Thawne said a friend of Barry’s resurrects him… so it may be that Rebirth gives away the ending of Blackest Night.
If we were taking visual cues from the cover as well as the solicit text it looks like the Reverse Flash dies in Rebirth. The direction of the lightning bolt on his costume is a dead giveaway.
Going by costume colors alone, without having later read the solicitation copy (nor having read Flash: Rebirth), I thought this might’ve been Cobalt Blue.
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I’m excited about this title….Flash rebirth is awesome and I can’t wait.
Blackest Night has gotten me back into comics
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