DC has started announcing the tie-in miniseries for Convergence, the spring 2015 event that will see the new 52 line go on hiatus for two months while we look in on fragments of various other realities tossed together…including the reality formerly known as the DC Universe. The 40 two-issue miniseries will run April and May, along a 9-part weekly Convergence series.
Among the titles revealed at IO9:
SPEED FORCE
Wally West and his kids are separated from Linda, which was bad enough, but when the dome falls, Flashpoint Wonder Woman comes for them. Tony Bedard (W), Tom Grummett and Sean Parsons (A).
JUSTICE LEAGUE
When Supergirl, Zatanna, and Jade went to Jesse Quick’s baby shower, they didn’t expect to be taken to another planet for a year, or to be attacked by Flashpoint Aquaman. Frank Tieri (W), Vicente Cifuentes (A).
Wally West and the kids — not just pre-Flashpoint, but pre-Rebirth, it appears — and Jesse Quick. It’s been a while.
Update: DC announced Convergence in an article at USA Today last week. Here’s how they describe the in-world premise:
Convergence spins out of the April 1 finales of the Earth 2: World’s End and The New 52: Futures End weekly series. The alien supervillain Brainiac has trapped cities from various timelines and planets that have ended, brought them in domes to a planet outside of time and space, and is now opening them for a great experiment to see what happens when all these folks meet.
“We’re picking up at points of their lives where we left them and finding out what’s gone on with them since then,” says DiDio.
I’ll buy that for a dollar.
@SpeedForceOrg Yay! #Wally!
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If I could pound the like button, I would..
Great news as it is, but if DC had snagged Mark Waid as the writer, they’d have broken the internet in half today.
On the other hand, they got Rucka back to write Renee/Question.
YES! Finally. Only two issues but I am so buying this. A little disappointed that Iris isn’t using the Impulse code name (and I’m worried about Linda) but this is excellent news regardless.
Unless the art’s from a flashback, it looks like they’ve branched off from a point before Flash: Rebirth. All three of them are in the costumes from the Wild Wests period.
The REAL Wally West returns… and it’s about time.
Yeah, naysayer here. Again, hoping she is dead wrong.
BUT the blurb says this is Flashpoint Wonder Woman after Wally/Linda/kids. As I (try not to) recall, Diana went off the deep end and started murdering guys and kidnapping girls left, right, and center. Those three words right there turned my elation into worried dismay in half a second flat.
I see two outcomes if this is actually Flashpoint based: 1. Wally and Jai are horribly killed while Irey and possibly Linda are taken to the Amazon stronghold right before everyone gets snuffed out by Pandorica.
2. Wally manages to evade Diana and ends up safely in the Speed Force….but still gets caught up in Pandaorica’s changed universe.
3. (Okay, three options) Wally saves his family and evades Pandorica’s shift and is now living happily ever after on goat world. (Which doesn’t explain Bart’s grabbing his speed force power in order to gift it to Barry, but I’m grasping at straws in order to feel better. Sue me.
I’ve seen people compare the premise (what we know of it, anyway) to Countdown: Arena, which doesn’t sound too promising to me. Braniac has been collecting pieces of different realities, and now they’re all stuck together and characters from different realities end up fighting each other for some reason. Under a dome, apparently.
I think I’ll start calling it “Flash Facts: Beyond Thunderdome” for now.
Though Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Catwoman vs. Captain Carrot sounds like it could be hilarious fun if done right.
o_0 So…basically they give back what so many of us have been pining for….but only to first dip them in smelly goo first then smiling and waving us on to go pick them up.
Although that Captain Carrot does sound like it *might* be fun. If the writer has a decent sense of humor given a cat, a rabbit, and a vegetation grower….and a nutcase.
btw, ‘goo’ was not my first choice in wording.
These are great news! I hope every Wally West fan buy this issue so DC can understand what Wally means to us
IT’S ABOUT TIME DC!!!!
Yeah…it’s a nice gesture DC, after all the middle fingers you’ve given us Wally fans, but to be honest, this whole thing sounds awful:
” are in the dome when suddenly Flashpoint attacks them for no reason! Convergence!”
At this point I’d honestly rather just read a series set in the same universe as Multiversity: The Just and forget that Flash even exists in the rest of the New 52
Whoops…that was supposed to read:
Yeah…it’s a nice gesture DC, after all the middle fingers you’ve given us Wally fans, but to be honest, this whole thing sounds awful:
”(These characters) are in the dome (doong this) when suddenly Flashpoint (who characters?) attacks them for no reason! Convergence!”
At this point I’d honestly rather just read a series set in the same universe as Multiversity: The Just and forget that Flash even exists in the rest of the New 52
I am intrigued by this concept and curious to see how it plays out. I was happy to see Stephanie Brown-Batgirl to return as I was a fan of that series, but was somewhat disappointed that Bryan Q. Miller wasn’t authoring. That said, I am a sucker for anything Dan Jurgens/Superman related.
I heard Bart and Max are in this too! Trying to confirm.
BOO YAH!!! Wally West Appreciation Day will be celebrating this LOUD and PROUD!!!!
Awesome, but can we also have pre-Rebirth Barry, the REAL Barry Allen back, too?
Also, it’s great to see the REAL costume back again too without all those extra lines and crap all over it.
I wanted Barry to come back, but in some ways he never really did, and I wanted all the characters to be able to coexist, not nix one for the other. It’s unfair to the fans, and I know how that feels because for years Barry Allen wasn’t published in books and it was only Wally (who I liked, but Barry was my favorite). Alienation is ALWAYS bad.
I’m 180-degrees opposite only in that I preferred Wally over Barry and that the lines don’t bug me as long as they are muted (and Barry stops looking like a fractured volcano about to erupt into a dozen flaming pieces.)
Even so (and barely knowing the character) it hurt when he was brought back only to have his parents dead or incarcerated and to be such a wet blanket when it came to the reunion party. Rebirth really stunk.
But not as bad as Flashpoint because if there’s anything I can’t stand its superheroes either going evil or losing their powers (Elseworlds: Act of God) That kind of things is just…”Say, you know those characters you love and why you love ’em? Yeah, were TPTB and we’re going to pretzel them into such odd shapes you won’t even recognize them anymore if it weren’t for the trademark. Why? Because we think we are badass cool and because we can.”
So excited to see Wally with his kids…though kinda bittersweet. This is a comic I want to read 4 years and years http://t.co/2lgJwKYZcd
All of the worst retcons to the Flash mythos happened during Rebirth, in my opinion, so I’m glad Wally’s living in a pre-Rebirth era where the Flash Family can co-exist without being mitigated by the “Barry Allen is the only significant Flash” Speed Force theory, and Barry Allen is not contaminated by the forced angst of a Batman-like origin,
I was just thinking about this the other day: Geoff Johns stated that he wanted to create a new era for the Flash Family in Flash: Rebirth, but what it ended up doing was killing it. Everyone and everything was made subordinate to Barry and the build-up to Flashpoint, and by the time DC released their first-ever Flash-centered mega-event…the Flash Family was barely even present as they were retconned out of existence.
In slight fairness to that, given the way Rebirth ended, I suspect that Johns honestly did want to grow the Flash brand the way he did Green Lantern years earlier and was primarily focusing on Barry at first. There were lots of story threads and a “Team Flash” feel at the end of Rebirth. However, all what could have been obviously changed with DC decided to reboot.
But the reboot gave Johns the opportunity to shape the franchise as he wished. There is still no flash family. just a depowered 12 year old named Wally West whom the writers insist is only a hero because of Barry Allen. I think what so much of us enjoyed about the Flash family was that they all stepped out of Barry’s shadow and became heroes on their own terms. this new direction is exactly the opposite.
First off Rebirth was AWESOME! Second I thought reboots were suppose to uncomplicate things…this looks confusing.
Scott, if you mean Convergence, it’s not a reboot. It’s an anything-goes alternate reality mashup. That doesn’t mean DC won’t use it as an excuse to reboot some things afterward, like they did with Flashpoint, but Convergence itself isn’t supposed to be a simpler DCU.