Bleeding Cool managed to get a little bit more out of Andy Kubert about Flashpoint: he’s already working on the book even though it comes out in 2011, to make sure it’ll be finished on time.
The article also implies that it’s going to be a separate book from the ongoing Flash series.
Keep in mind that there are a lot of things we don’t know yet about the book. Really, all we know for certain is:
- It’s coming out in 2011.
- It’s by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert.
- It’s about the Flashes.
- Something is threatening time in the DC Universe.
Among the things we don’t know:
- We don’t know whether it will permanently* change the Flash status quo.
- We don’t know whether it will permanently change the Flash’s (or anyone else’s) history.
- We don’t know whether it will be a self-contained story like Green Lantern: Recharge, a crossover between a couple of books like Sinestro Corps War, or a mega-event like Blackest Night.
- We don’t know whether it will lead into, grow out of, or ignore the Kid Flash series DC says is still in the works.
- We don’t know whether Flashpoint itself is a miniseries, a pair of bookends to a crossover, or even an original graphic novel.
- We don’t even really know that it won’t be a major arc within the Flash series, unless someone has an exact quote from Andy Kubert or Geoff Johns. Bleeding Cool is, after all, a rumor site, and in an article full of statements like “it looks like…” and “I guess…,” the only definite information is the fact that Andy Kubert is already working on it.
Not that any of this will stop the Internet from jumping to conclusions, of course.
*Whatever “permanently” means in comics.
I am jumping to the conclusion that the story will involve The Flash. Bwa-ha-ha.
Cool I can’t wait to have an entire event on the Flash entirely !
I still think it’ll be late, unless it’s like a one or two issue thing.
This whole ‘giving lead time to slow artists’ thing never seems to work out; wasn’t Final Crisis already being drawn when Countdown started? Wasn’t Flash: Rebirth started before Barry even came back in Final Crisis? Wasn’t Civil War started well in advance?
Every time, they give them huge lead time… which only seems to make them draw even slower.
Wasn’t Flash: Rebirth started before Barry even came back in Final Crisis?
The first three issues were on time. I have a feeling that if it weren’t for EVS’s heart problems (which started around then), the other issues would’ve been on time or a week late at most.
Filled out a piece pretty good on what we don’t know! 😛
Though, we also have the advertising copy which certainly implies, at the very least, that DC thinks it’s a good idea to advertise the story as saying, “Flash’s world will change” and “Their [while picturing two other Flashes & Kid Flash] will change with it.” Along with the past, present, and future text.
That doesn’t mean the ad isn’t deceptive but it would be interesting to see how many DC ads billed an arc/event as world changing without panning out that way in the past.
For what it’s worth, I was looking up Magog yesterday at the Wikipedia page (saw the photo for Magog July issue with him over a hurt Wally) and there was a mention of a “Flashpoint” there. Some institution or the like. Might be nothing…don’t have time to check on it again.
All in all, it’s good to see the Flash get a little bit of the attention, regardless of the size of the spotlight. Quothe Oscar Wilde: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
Fascinating. And is that Barry fighting some time-disturbed Batman there? Reminds me of Batman seeing the spectral Flash in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Here’s my jumping to conclusions: a three-way Flashpoint, Return of Bruce Wayne, Multiversity tie-in?
Of course, everyone’s sick of hearing me say at this point that it’s criminal that Green Lantern and Flash get this kind of event-centered treatment before Superman does … oh, wait, said it again. 🙂
.-= collectededitions’s latest blog post: DC solicits deluxe Legion of Super-Heroes: Great Darkness Saga hardcover =-.
Something else we don’t know: Whether Andy Kubert will actually complete the artwork on schedule. As many of you recall, he was the guy whose delays on “Last Son” (a high profile Superman story featuring Geoff Johns co-writing with his mentor Richard Donner) stretched a four-month storyline out to a year and a half.
Utterly unprofessional, and after the chronic delays of Ethan Van Sciver on “Flash Rebirth”, an x-factor I’m not looking forward to dealing with.
.-= Mark Engblom’s latest blog post: Epilogue =-.
Wasn’t that his brother, Adam? Andy did the artwork for Batman around that time.
Hey! You’re right! That’s the thing with brothers who are not only in the same line of work, but have similar styles as well. Sorry about that.
Let’s hope Andy’s work ethic doesn’t match his brother’s!
.-= Mark Engblom’s latest blog post: Epilogue =-.
“The fan favorite creator [jurgens] also teased that “Time Masters: Vanishing Point” may lead directly into 2011’s event series, “Flashpoint,” by the superstar creative team of Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert. ”
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