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DC Comics’ Flashpoint Creative Teams (Miniseries & One-Shots)

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What we know so far about the 5-issue Flashpoint main series and the fifteen 3-issue tie-in miniseries. I’ll be updating this page as we learn more. Latest Update: March 11. DC has now officially announced sixteen miniseries and four one-shots.

Flashpoint

Written by Geoff Johns.
Art by Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope.

Status: Officially confirmed. Johns & Kubert have been attached from the start, with Hope mentioned when DC announced the tie-ins.

Whatever Happened to Gotham City?

Flashpoint: Batman, Knight of Vengeance

Covers: Dave Johnson
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Art: Eduardo Risso

Announced March 4.

Flashpoint: Deadman and the Flying Graysons

Covers: Cliff Chiang
Writer: JT Krul
Art: Mikel Janin

Announced March 4.

Whatever Happened to the World’s Greatest Super Villains?

Flashpoint: Citizen Cold

Writing and art by Scott Kolins.

Announced March 4. I figured Scott Kolins was a safe bet for the artwork, but I’m surprised Geoff Johns passed up writing Citizen Cold himself.

Flashpoint: Deathstroke & the Curse of the Ravager

Covers: Joe Bennett & John Dell
Writer: Jimmy Palmiotti
Art: Joe Bennett & John Dell

Announced March 4.

Flashpoint: Legion of Doom

Covers: Miguel Sepulveda
Writer: Adam Glass
Art: Rodeny Buchemi & Jose Marzan

Announced March 4. This was the first mention of the series, which was not among the original 14 (out of 15) titles announced.

Flashpoint: The Outsider

Covers: Kevin Nowlan
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Javi Fernandez

Announced March 11.

Whatever Happened to the Aliens?

Flashpoint: Abin Sur the Green Lantern

Felipe Massafera
Writer: Adam Schlagman
Art: Felipe Massafera

Announced March 11.

Flashpoint: Project: Superman

Covers: Gene Ha
Plot by: Scott Snyder
Script: Lowell Francis
Art: Gene Ha

Announced March 11.

Flashpoint: Hal Jordan

Covers: Rags Morales
Writer: Adam Schlagman
Art: Ben Oliver

Announced March 4. This was the first mention of the series, which was not among the original 14 (out of 15) titles announced.

Whatever Happened to Science and Magic?

Flashpoint: Frankenstein & the Creatures of the Unknown

Covers: Doug Mahnke
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Art: Ibraim Roberson

Announced March 11.

Flashpoint: Secret Seven

Covers: George Perez
Writer Peter Milligan
Art: George Perez and Scott Koblish

Milligan mentioned working with Perez on a Flashpoint book “which features Shade The Changing Man and Enchantress” in a Newsarama interview. Perez mentioned working on Secret Seven on Facebook. The team was confirmed March 11.

Whatever Happened to Europe?

Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman

Covers: Ardian Syaf & Vicente Cifuentes
Writer: Tony Bedard
Art: Ardian Syaf & Vicente Cifuentes

Bedard and Syaf were rumored early on (see below), and confirmed March 4.

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies

Covers: Ed Benes
Writer: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art: Scott Clark and David Beaty

Writers Abnett & Lanning and artist Scott Clark were leaked in January (see below) with the full team announced March 11.

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance

Covers: Eddy Nunez and Sandra Hope
Writer: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art: Eddy Nunez

Writers Abnett & Lanning and were leaked in January (see below) with artist Harvey Tolibao attached with a question mark. The final team was announced March 11.

The creative teams for these three apparently leaked on The Source due to a post going up ahead of schedule. (It’s since been removed.) Update (Feb 24): Bleeding Cool concurs with these names.

Everything You Know Will Change in a Flash

Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost

Covers: Francis Manapul
Writer: Sterling Gates
Art: Oliver Nome

Announced March 11.

Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint

Covers: Shane Davis
Writer: Rex Ogle
Art: Paulo Siquiera

Announced March 4.

One-Shots

Flashpoint: Grodd of War #1

Cover: Francis Manapul
Writer: Sean Ryan
Art: Ig Guara

Flashpoint: Reverse Flash #1

Cover: Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes
Writer: Scott Kolins
Art: Joel Gomez

Flashpoint: Green Arrow Industries #1

Cover: Viktor Kalvachev
Writer: Pornsak Pichetshote
Art: Mark Castiello

Flashpoint: The Canterbury Cricket #1

Cover: Rags Morales
Writer: Mike Carlin
Art: Rags Morales

These four one-shots were announced on March 11 with their creative teams.

On a related note, Dan Didio stated on Facebook that only two ongoing series will tie into the event. Presumably one of them is The Flash. Feb. 7 Booster Gold is confirmed as the other book to tie in.

Speed Reading: Flashpoint Speculation

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A couple of quick links here…

Comics Nexus considers possibilities for Flashpont’s lasting impact. Even if the timeline is restored completely, something is likely to stick around, like the resurrected characters from Blackest Night in Brightest Day. The site also wonders about the connection to Prime Hunter in Superboy.

Bleeding Cool has picked up two possible titles for the fifteenth Flashpoint miniseries. Potential spoilers if one of them is right. Update: One of the two titles has shown up in a Marvel Comics teaser, so it seems unlikely.

Flash #9 Preview & New Covers

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DC has posted a preview of Flash #9 (out next week), along with the final covers.

FLASH issue nine, on sale next Wednesday, kicks off the much anticipated Prelude to FLASHPOINT storyline. Writer Geoff Johns and artist Francis Manapul are crafting a murder mystery with a heck of a twist. Who dies? We won’t say here (yet), but we’ll let this question linger: “You recognize the costume?”

Interestingly, it seems they’ve swapped the primary covers for Flash #9 and Flash #10 to keep the “character-focused” theme running through January’s books as close to January as possible. And while the book was originally solicited with a Scott Kolins variant cover, it’s being shipped with one by Tyler Kirkham.

They’ve also replaced the “Brightest Day” banner with “The Road to Flashpoint.”

Read the preview at The Source or at CBR.

Update: Francis Manapul has been posting scans of the uncolored interior artwork on his DeviantArt page: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 5, and Page 6.

Flashpoint: Everything Changes in a Flash — 14 Miniseries Titles Announced

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DC has posted a new Flashpoint teaser, including the titles of fourteen of the fifteen tie-in miniseries, broken down by category:

Whatever Happened to Gotham City?

FLASHPOINT: BATMAN KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: DEADMAN AND THE FLYING GRAYSONS #1-#3

Whatever Happened to the World’s Greatest Super Villains?

FLASHPOINT: CITIZEN COLD #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: DEATHSTROKE & THE CURSE OF THE RAVAGER #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: THE OUTSIDER #1-#3

Whatever Happened to the Aliens?

FLASHPOINT: ABIN SUR THE GREEN LANTERN #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: PROJECT: SUPERMAN #1-#3

Whatever Happened to Science & Magic?

FLASHPOINT: FRANKENSTEIN & THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: SECRET SEVEN #1-#3

Whatever Happened to Europe?

FLASHPOINT: EMPEROR AQUAMAN #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: WONDER WOMAN AND THE FURIES #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #1-#3

Everything You Know Will Change in a Flash

FLASHPOINT: KID FLASH LOST #1-#3
FLASHPOINT: THE WORLD OF FLASHPOINT #1-#3

So, they’re all 3-issue miniseries. DC might run some of them during the first part of the event and others during the second part, but I think it’s more likely to play out this way:

May: Flashpoint #1 and some of the one-shots.
June-August: Flashpoint #2-4 and the minis.
September: Flashpoint #5 and the rest of the one-shots.

Assuming, of course, that the whole thing stays on schedule. It’s also still possible that the related regular series will be suspended during June-August while the altered miniseries run instead.

Citizen Cold is obviously going to center on Captain Cold.

So, Kid Flash Lost. Wally West? Bart Allen? Or Iris “Irey” West II? As much as I’d like to see the Kingdom Come version of Kid Flash again, I think the best match with the title is time anomaly Bart Allen, who has a history of resisting changes to the timeline (Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe, the Dark Flash saga) and will once again be trapped in a world changed from the one he remembers.

Flashpoint: An Epic of Epic Epicness?

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For today’s Flashpoint Friday, DC Comics said a few words about the scope of the event, which is “so big and ambitious that there will be fifteen mini series expanding on the events, along with several important one shots.”

Yeah, you read that right.

  • One central 5-issue miniseries by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert.
  • 15 tie-in miniseries.
  • “Several” “important” one-shots.

DC will be announcing 14 of the 15 miniseries’ titles this afternoon.

They also add, for those readers who haven’t quite tumbled to the fact, that “This isn’t a parallel Earth. This isn’t a mirror world. This is home.”

There may be something to last week’s Bleeding Cool rumor that DC will alter their publishing line during the event. With 15 miniseries, I can imagine DC putting 15 titles on hiatus for a few months and publishing the minis instead. Not necessarily the best timing with the Green Lantern movie coming out, but there’s undoubtedly more to the plans.

Also of note: The creative team was described as “Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope.” I don’t remember Sandra Hope being mentioned in connection with the title before. It may be that she’s been doing the inks all along and they were only publicizing Andy Kubert’s more-famous name, or it may be that she’s been brought to ink the later issues so that Kubert has more time to finish the pencils.

(Apologies to Scott Pilgrim for the headline.)

Green Lantern/Flashpoint for Free Comic Book Day

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Well, that was fast. Just yesterday I pondered the likelihood of DC releasing a Flashpoint prelude for Free Comic Book Day, and today they announced a Green Lantern/Flashpoint special for the event.

This is the perfect jumping-on point for new readers who can’t wait to see the “Green Lantern” major motion picture from Warner Bros.! Discover how and why Hal received the power ring that changed his life forever with this reprinting of GREEN LANTERN #30, a pivotal chapter of the Green Lantern: Secret Origin graphic novel. No comic fan can afford to miss this exclusive first sneak peek of FLASHPOINT, DC’s blockbuster event of 2011, by the all-star team of Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert.

So instead of a lead-in, we’re getting a preview, and it’s playing backup to a Green Lantern movie tie-in.

Free Comic Book Day is held the first Saturday of May.