Collected Editions has spotted the Amazon listing for the Flash: Rebirth Hardcover, with a January 12, 2010 date.
Several things stand out about this:
- Only 2 issues of the miniseries have come out so far.
- Just yesterday, DC announced that it would extend the mini from 5 issues to 6.
- It’s a hardcover, so a trade paperback is probably even further off.
- Flash: Rebirth, assuming it stays on schedule, will run through September.
- The 3-issue miniseries Blackest Night: Flash runs November–January.
The missing piece is still: when will the Flash ongoing start? On one hand, DC might launch in October, picking up immediately on the heels of Flash: Rebirth and maintaining momentum. On the other hand they might be planning a throughline from Flash: Rebirth through Blackest Night: Flash and into the ongoing, in which case the series would probably launch in late January or in February. And hey, here’s a convenient hardcover collection for anyone who wants to pick up the new series…
As long as they get it right this time.
Whether it’s Barry, Wally, Bart or Jay. Hell even if it’s John Fox or Walter West… as long as the new series is good, We haven’t had a good run since the end of Johns’ turn in 2004.
IMHO The best Flash stories since 2005 were just one issue of Bart Allen’s Flash, Wally’s appearance in Brave & The Bold with the Doom Patrol…. and Rogues’ Revenge. The rest just weren’t that engaging. His appearance in Booster Gold was more interesting.
Hopefully the silence on the on-going represents a surprise to be sprung indicating something greater in scope than a mere monthly (as in multiple on-going books and/or minis). But the late announcement of the additional 6th issue of Rebirth is not filling me with confidence.
Any word yet as to who the creative team will be on Blackest Night: Flash?
@Craig: Not that I’ve heard.
i assumed it would be Johns as writer.