Flashpoint

[trustyside-kick]

Well this makes me think about another rumor that was talked about a while back. Looks like that in the New Earth when the JLA is formed the way it will go down in a nutshell is that the Big Three apparently go to Aquaman and pretty much say "we need you to lead us".

Johns talked about it in some interview during the early days of BD.

 

[Drz]

Aquaman being the field commander would be awesome fanboy wise atleast to me. But would he truly have the combat and stragetic skills compared to say Batman for shouting commands or Superman?

 

[Batman]

I'd say Aquaman's combat and strategic skills are above if not equal to Batman's. Bruce only trained himself for the terrain of less than half of the entire planet - Orin trained himself for the majority of it. And shouting commands has never been Aquaman's weak point. Dude did that well before he had his throne.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

So, I'm guessing this "reboot" is gonna be like Zero Hour?
Just some minor changes, but it's not going to de-canonize anything?

 

[trustyside-kick]

Aquaman always had combative and tactician skills. To be honest if anyone is fit to lead them it would be him or Wonder Woman since they have had experience leading armies and the JLA is a small meta-army. Supes is strong as hell yea but he never truly fights he has almost Hulk-syndrome and just "Hulk Smash I don't have to try to dodge and evade as much because I'm pretty much invulnerable" when he fights. Not enough writers write him with better fighting capability and mixing in his multiple abilities. Batman's trademark is always his detective mind...he may be written in Morrison stories as the guy who ends up finding out a major weakness or way to win but when has he ever led them? It's just not in the cards IMO.

 

[Drz]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05...-firestorm-before-you-even-knew-he-was-on-it/

And thanks guys for reassuring Aquaman would make the most outrageous field commander out there. I wonder if tomorrow can get #1 JL comic cover, i wanna see Bruce and Flash too! Also gotta remember Batman will also be a JLI member.

 

[trustyside-kick]

So, I'm guessing this "reboot" is gonna be like Zero Hour?
Just some minor changes, but it's not going to de-canonize anything?

No, looks like the changes will be like COIE was. Like the changing of the Golden Age to the Silver Age. The Silver Age to the Modern Age (via COIE). This will bring a brand spanking new Age looks like from the article that was released. Everyone is younger and such. Younger as in just starting out or a few years after starting out their superhero gigs looks like.

 

[louiebling$]

So am I reading this write...will there be a Digital Subscription for Comics?

 

[Assassin]

i might have to buy an ipad2 now.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Just read #2... Holy ****.

 

[Kevin]

i might have to buy an ipad2 now.

I said he same.

 

[Panthro]

No, looks like the changes will be like COIE was. Like the changing of the Golden Age to the Silver Age. The Silver Age to the Modern Age (via COIE). This will bring a brand spanking new Age looks like from the article that was released. Everyone is younger and such. Younger as in just starting out or a few years after starting out their superhero gigs looks like.

So... does this mean they're undoing the marriage of Superman & Lois Lane and resetting Wally West as Kid Flash?

 

[louiebling$]

Will it ONLY be on the iPad?

 

[Tron Bonne]

So... does this mean they're undoing the marriage of Superman & Lois Lane and resetting Wally West as Kid Flash?

We don't know. It seems to be me, from what's been said, is that is kind of a halfway point between Zero Hour and COIE. It's not a complete and total reboot of continuity, but the changes are obviously larger scale than simply cutting and shifting backgrounds. Though, a lot of this is simply speculation. We don't know the details of it, yet.

 

[Stallion9979]

So... does this mean they're undoing the marriage of Superman & Lois Lane and resetting Wally West as Kid Flash?

Like the first part but not too keen on the second...I understand character progression and all that nonsense but I feel they never should've gotten married...


I like Wally as Flash and I hate what they did with Barry...to me I think he should've came back to help during Blackest Night and then went on to the great beyond...as bad as it sounds the last 25 years was all about Wally transitioning from sidekick to A-List hero...to have Barry back really ruins Wally...a demotion in any way is a real slap in the face to long time fans...

 

[Tron Bonne]

Interesting that character progression is nonsense to you, especially when you feel that way about Flash :/

I've never understood why some people took Lois and Supes shouldn't be together. I mean, hell, the original creator wanted them to be. If he'd had his way they would have been a Super couple back in the Golden Age.

 

[Stallion9979]

Interesting that character progression is nonsense to you, especially when you feel that way about Flash :/

I've never understood why some people took Lois and Supes shouldn't be together. I mean, hell, the original creator wanted them to be. If he'd had his way they would have been a Super couple back in the Golden Age.

Yes but in the case of the Flash they are burying a member of the Big 7 to bring back a Silver Ager...yes I know the importance Barry Allen played but thats what made his death so iconic...if you think about it he was the one guy that proved death could be somewhat final...in an age where characters die and come back all the time he stayed gone for almost 30 years...brining him back and letting him sacrifice himself again in the recent Blackest Night would've cemented him as a legend...but now he's back running around like nothing happened and Wally West who picked up the torch and shined for 25 years is now being devolved to kid sidekick...thats just horrible...

Lois and Clark as a married couple just bother me for some reason and it always has...don't ask me why cuz I can't put my finger on it...it just always seemed wrong to me...

 

[Anubis]

Don't ask you why? Okay. I"m just gonna assume you're racist.

 

[Stallion9979]

Don't ask you why? Okay. I"m just gonna assume you're racist.

well...um...that's one way to go...I guess...um...yeah...I didn't know what to do with that...

 

[Motown Marvel]

so not much really happened in the new issue of flashpoint. they have a lot of characters playing out a lot of stories and not enough pages to do it in. so overall, it just seems like not much happened. the last page, which i assume was supposed to be shocking, just had me rolling my eyes.

 

[HighFivingMF]

which i assume was supposed to be shocking,

 

[Motown Marvel]

ha ha, i didnt even catch that

by the way, my friend and i both agreed that the cover of the book looks like flash taking a huge dump. we then further agreed this was symbolic of geoff johns taking a huge dump on the fans. we then continued to blame geoff johns for everything wrong in our lives.

 

[Motown Marvel]

oh, did anyone pick up the tie-ins? or do you also just kinda not care...?

 

[Tron Bonne]

I picked up Secret Seven, but haven't read it yet. I might pick up Citizen Cold and Frankenstein.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

oh, did anyone pick up the tie-ins? or do you also just kinda not care...?

The latter. To the extent that I'm skipping the whole event.