This Week: Flash #12, Flashpoint #1, DC Presents: The Flash

It’s a big week for the Flash: The final issue of this series (though of course you know it’s coming back), plus the start of DC Comics’ first-ever Flash-centric giant event, plus a reprint collection of classic Flash stories.

The Flash #12

Written by GEOFF JOHNS; Art and cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL [edit: and SCOTT KOLINS]; 1:10 Variant cover by GEORGE PEREZ FRANCIS PORTELA.

“The Road to Flashpoint” concludes as everything Barry Allen knows and cares about is lost. What is the Flashpoint? Find out in FLASHPOINT #1!

DC Universe 32pg. Color $2.99 US

Flashpoint #1

Written by GEOFF JOHNS; Art and cover by ANDY KUBERT; 1:25 Variant cover A by ANDY KUBERT; Variant cover by IVAN REIS and GEORGE PÉREZ

Not a dream, not an imaginary story, not an elseworld. This is Flash Fact: When Barry Allen wakes at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. Family is alive, loved ones are strangers, and close friends are different, gone or worse. It’s a world on the brink of a cataclysmic war – but where are Earth’s Greatest Heroes to stop it? It’s a place where America’s last hope is Cyborg, who hopes to gather the forces of The Outsider, The Secret 7, S!H!A!Z!A!M!, Citizen Cold and other new and familiar-yet-altered faces! It’s a world that could be running out of time, if The Flash can’t find the villain who altered the time line!

Welcome to FLASHPOINT!

DC Universe 40pg. Color $3.99 US

DC Comics Presents: The Flash

Written by JOHN BROOME and ROBERT KANIGHER; Art by CARMINE INFANTINO, JOE GIELLA and others; Cover by ANDY KUBERT and JOE KUBERT

Spotlighting tales of time travel and the Rogues, these tales from SHOWCASE #4 and 14, THE FLASH #125, 130 and 139 pit The Scarlet Speedster against “The Giants of The Time World,” “The Conquerors of Time,” along with Mirror Master, Captain Boomerang, The Top, Captain Cold, The Trickster and The Reverse Flash!

DC Universe 96pg. Color $7.99 US

WWWW: Contest Winner, Week Four!

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Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s installation of our “Where Was Wally West?” contest here at Speed Force!

We posted a panel from a classic Flash comic, featuring Wally West in an alternate reality, the past or a “possible future”.  Correct answers were put into a raffle, and a winner was drawn at random.  To refresh your memory, here is the latest subject:

Where's Wally?

With clasps of solid lightning, the Box of Speed holds the key to some of the deepest secrets and darkest corners of Flash contests…

…and the winner is…

 

Congrats to Esteban!  This week’s answer was Flash V. 2 #169, art by Angel Unzueta and Doug Hazlewood.  In Geoff Johns’ first Flash story, Wally struggles to overcome the challenges of being powerless a mirror world, rife with haunting alternate versions of his friends and enemies…

Esteban has had a big week when it comes to Flash.  He is the man who got the low-down on the lack of Mark Waid on the DC: Retroactive 90’s Flash story, and now he is this week’s WWWW winner!  His site, Comic Verso, is a great source for Spanish-language comic book news, reviews and features.

See you on Wednesday for the next installment in “Where Was Wally West?”!

Flashpoint #1 Preview (and XS)

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For those who missed the preview in DC’s Free Comic Book Day offering this weekend, you can catch several pages of the 8-page preview online at USA Today and at Comics Nexus.

The pages at USA Today answer another question that has had speedster fans confused since Saturday: a possible new speedster in the Flash Family panel. Fans had been debating whether she was a horribly mis-colored XS or a new character. The USA Today pages have been corrected, making it clear that yes, she’s meant to be XS.

Good to know, though I have to wonder how getting a character’s skin, hair and costume all wrong made it as far as the printed copy of a high-profile promotional book. (Though I suspect DC put far more effort into the Green Lantern part of the book, because, let’s be honest: a big summer movie trumps a big summer comic book every time.)

[Update: DC Women Kicking Ass has the panel in question, with the printed FCBD and corrected online versions. (via Bleeding Cool)]

Along with the preview, USA Today interviews Geoff Johns, Andy Kubert and others about the event.

Speed Reading

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Some weekend linkblogging as we race toward Flashpoint.

Flash Art.

Flash and Flashpoint.

Other comics stuff.

Two Flashes in IGN’s Top 100 Heroes

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IGN has put together a list of their Top 100 Comic Book Heroes, and two Flashes make the cut! It’s a very well-rounded list, featuring not just the major Marvel and DC super-heroes, but non-superheroes like Dream of the Endless and Spider Jerusalem, and indie characters like Hellboy, Scott Pilgrim, and even Groo the Wanderer.

The two Flashes on the list are Barry Allen at #49 and Wally West at #8.