Newsarama has a preview of Flash #44, available next week.
Professor Zoom’s war against the Flash escalates as Zoom’s team launches an attack that Central City will never forget. With Wally West in the line of fire, The Flash is racing against the clock to save his city—and his friend.
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI and VAN JENSEN
Art and cover by BRETT BOOTH and NORM RAPMUND
GREEN LANTERN 75 Variant cover by WES CRAIG
The CW has released the official synopsis for the first episode of The Flash‘s new season. Titled “The Man Who Saved Central City”, it will air on October 6th.
BARRY DECIDES HE NEEDS TO PROTECT THE CITY ON HIS OWN — Picking up months after the Singularity attacked Central City, Barry (Grant Gustin) is still struggling to forgive himself for Eddie’s death. Concerned about putting his friends in danger, Barry has pushed everyone away and has chosen to protect the city on his own. When a meta-human named Atom Smasher (guest star Adam Copeland) attacks the city, Iris (Candice Patton) tells Barry that he needs to let his friends help him protect the citizens of Central City. Meanwhile, Cisco (Carlos Valdes) helps Joe (Jesse L. Martin) with his Meta Task Force. Ralph Hemecker directed the episode with story by Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg and teleplay by Andrew Kreisberg & Gabrielle Stanton (#201). Original airdate 10/6/2015
While we’re here, there’s a new brief ad for the Season One DVD and Blu-Ray editions. They’ll be released next week, on September 22nd.
Who’s planning to pick up the DVD or Blu-Ray?
Newsarama has the scoop: the six Darkseid War tie-ins originally titled Justice League: Gods and Men are being renamed as Justice League: Darkseid War, which not only makes more sense, but is harder to confuse with Justice League: Gods and Monsters.
They also posted this piece by Jason Fabok from the upcoming Justice League #44, revealing just what the Flash will look like when he becomes a New God – specifically the Black Racer, avatar of death.
Justice League: Darkseid War – The Flash ships in October, written by Rob Williams with art by Jesus Merino and a cover by Francis Manapul.
Update: The book is now scheduled for November 5.
The softcover edition of The Flash: Season Zero is out this week. It collects the complete series, originally released in 24 digital chapters and then in 12 print issues. Actually set during season one, it covers two long stories:
Flash vs. a metahuman circus
King Shark vs. the Suicide Squad
…and several shorter stories, including a look back at how Captain Cold and Heat Wave first met, a nightmare out of Caitlin Snow’s past, a guest spot by Felicity Smoak, and a story in which Caitlin and Cisco deal with fallout from one of her old mentors.
This week’s digital flashbacks from the early 1970s include:
Flash #202 – Iris’ reporting gets her into trouble with a cult.
Flash #203 – Iris returns to her home era in the distant future. Wait, you didn’t think she was from the present, did you?
It’s exactly three weeks until the October 6th season premiere of The Flash, and new details and promos are coming almost every day.
Flashfans.org has a gallery of official still images from the premiere episode. It gives us a somewhat spoilery look at what we’ll see and the characters we will be seeing…including a familiar face.
And the CW has released a behind-the-scenes promo clip, which also has some spoilers and shows how a few special effects are done.
https://youtu.be/b3u1CRK-q24
What are you most looking forward to this season? Let us know in the comments!
Things look rough for Barry Allen in this new poster for The Flash Season Two. Star Grant Gustin posted it to Instagram with this caption:
Tune into season two of @cwtheflash and see how Barry can get through this time of tribulation, caused by so many losses in the season one finale. A good scream always helps…
(Via The Flash Podcast and CBR.)