Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion #3 arrives this week in stores and online. Still on the run from the Crime Syndicate, the Rogues find themselves in Gotham City, right in the middle of Arkham War. But first, Poison Ivy makes them an offer they don’t dare refuse.
Brian Buccellato, Scott Hepburn, Andre Coelho. Preview at CBR.
(Side question for those who have been reading the main Forever Evil series: Just how big of an area has the Crime Syndicate put into eclipse by moving the moon?)
Just a quick note this morning.
“Three Ghosts,” the mid-season finale of Arrow, and part two of Barry Allen’s reintroduction to live-action TV, airs tonight on CW.
Justice League 3000 #1 arrives in stores today, featuring a future Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash and Green Lantern.
Digital back issues of the 1987-2008 Flash series seem to have settled in on a monthly schedule. Flash #158 is now available on ComiXology. Wally West, his alternate universe counterpart Walter West, and their allies must stop Abra Kadabra and Replicant. It’s the second to last issue of the Dark Flash saga, and we’re closing in on the end of the well-regarded Waid/Augustyn run on the series.
The big Flash release this week is, of course, Barry Allen’s first appearance on the TV show Arrow tonight. Not yet the Flash, Barry comes to Starling City to investigate a robbery. (Check out our round-up of Flash TV news.)
There aren’t any new Flash comic books this week, but there are two new digital re-releases at ComiXology on Wednesday:
Impulse #84: With Max Mercury still missing, Bart moves to Keystone City to live with Jay and Joan Garrick. The cover is a reference to the very first Flash cover ever: Flash Comics #1.
Green Lantern #67: Part 2 of “Fast Friends,” as Wally West and Kyle Rayner try to avoid sniping at each other long enough to stop Sonar.
The final Manapul/Buccellato issue of The Flash is out today. It’s a flashback, set in Gotham City during Zero Year, featuring a pre-speed Barry Allen and Iris West. Preview at Heat Vision.
ComiXology doesn’t have any new Flash or Impulse backissues this week. I suspect DC has moved Flash from a biweekly reissue schedule to a monthly, leaving Impulse biweekly for now. I hope they’ll at least wrap up Impulse on this schedule since there are only four issues left (Impulse #85 was already rereleased as part of a Young Justice crossover). Also two annuals, a pair of team-up, and Bart Saves the Universe.
This week features the release of Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion #2.
Separated from their leader Captain Cold and trapped in Metropolis, the Rogues must fight for their lives against the Secret Society’s secret weapon: the horrifying Parasite!
Brian Buccellato, Patrick Zircher, cover by Declan Shalvey.
In digital backissues at ComiXology:
Impulse #83, Part 2 of “Double Visions,” in which two of Bart’s classmates’ psychic battle threatens to spill over the whole school. Todd Dezago, Carlo Barberi, Juan Vlasco.
Green Lantern (1990 series) #66:: “Fast Friends” Part 1 of 2. Kyle Rayner and Wally West try to get along while battling Sonar. Ron Marz, Paul Pelletier, Romeo Tanghal.
Speaking of Green Lantern, ComiXology is also running a Green Lantern by Geoff Johns sale which includes all of Blackest Night including every tie-in, so if you want to pick up digital copies of Blackest Night: The Flash or the GL issue in which Barry Allen gets possessed by Parallax for 99ยข an issue, now’s your chance.
It looks like DC Comics’ digital Flash back-issues are back on track, with Flash #157 available on Wednesday. With Wally and Linda apparently gone, Abra Kadabra recruits Replicant and sends him after Walter West. The rest of the speedsters have a plan…but what does the Reverse Flash have to do with it all?
After this there are only two issues left of the Dark Flash saga (it wraps in #159), and then one more issue by Waid and Augustyn (#161, an epilogue in which disasters seem to follow everywhere Wally and Linda try to honeymoon). Two one-shots fill in the gap before Geoff Johns’ run begins with #163.
Update: As Wayne points out in the comments below, DC has also released Adventures of Superman #463, the first race between Wally West and Superman from way back in 1990. (Superman/Flash races are a looong tradition.)
