Following up on yesterday’s day of teasers for Flashpoint, DC has announced Flashpoint Fridays. Each Friday from now until the series launch, they’ll post something new about the story, which The Source describes as being “as ambitious and big as any event in DC history.”

Flashpoint #1, by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert, is officially launching in May.

Finally, they posted some new clues to yesterday’s teases, confirming that (not that anyone would be surprised) the Wayne Casinos hint is related to Batman, and (a less clear-cut choice, but still one that many people speculated) the arranged marriage hint was about Wonder Woman and Aquaman. The real surprise: “Where is his ring?” doesn’t refer to Green Lantern!

Update: Here are the logos they posted (after the cut). Continue reading →

Throughout the day, DC Comics is posting teasers for Flashpoint, this year’s Flash-centric “event” at The Source. The heading: “Whatever Happened to the World’s Greatest Heroes?”

So far we have:

• The Spaceship Never Crashed
• He spends his days running Wayne Casinos
• They experimented on him in a lab for years (Update)
• Where is his ring? (Update)
• Their marriage was arranged to prevent war (Update – last one for the day.)

It looks like someone — most likely the Reverse-Flash — is systematically altering history to prevent the origins of DC’S heroes. It’s a concept we’ve seen before. My first thought was of a JLI story from the early 1990s, but CraigRMacDonald pointed out on Twitter that it’s also the premise of the first year of Booster Gold. Of course, when you distill it down to such basic elements, just about any story has been told before, and it becomes all about the details and execution.

I’ll be updating this post with links to the new teasers when I have time, or you can keep an eye directly on The Source.

Or, for fun, you can play around with #FakeFlashpointTeasers on Twitter. [Edit: Fixed the link. IMO the biggest problem with new Twitter is the fragile link structure.]

The 5-issue(?) Flashpoint miniseries is being written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Andy Kubert.

Update: I linked to this the other day on Twitter, Facebook and Buzz, but for those who haven’t seen it, here’s a detailed analysis of what we know so far about Flashpoint at Inside Pulse.