Flashpoint

[Mystirious]

Although Fear Itself has hawt warrior ladies with magic hammers

You have to dig that

 

[Hush]

Can someone fill me in on what has happened in Flash Comics so that I may read Flashpoint having some understanding?

 

[Mystirious]

Professor Zoom has come back to life and has decide to taffy history. That's all the essential bqckstory you need really

Zoom is messing with the timeline of the DCU changing peoples pasts

 

[Hush]

That is ******ed if the plot is as simple as that.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Is it? I mean, that's what Zoom kind of does...seems pretty in line for this kind of story to me.

 

[Hush]

I know but to bas a whole event around it? I mean just one guy whom The Flash has beaten single handedly several times? I just don't see how you can base what looks to be a HUGE event on this one guy.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is it? I mean, that's what Zoom kind of does...seems pretty in line for this kind of story to me.

Well, that's what he's done every time Johns has written him so far. Waid had him try to steal Barry's identity. That was fun.

 

[Mystirious]

I dug that story

Zoom was Tom Cruise Crazy in that one and way more imaginative than just constantly messing with the timeline

 

[Franklin Richards]

I know but to bas a whole event around it? I mean just one guy whom The Flash has beaten single handedly several times? I just don't see how you can base what looks to be a HUGE event on this one guy.

I give you Black Hand.


I think every Blackest Night / Brightest Day story has prolly stemmed from him.


And that's a crappy example. Thanos and Doom are Event Worthy villains. If a writer had the balls not to mention his name until the end of the story, I'd say the same thing about Loki.

Magneto on the other hand doesn't have the chutzpah if ya ask me.


Brainiac is big enough. So's Ra's Al Ghul.

 

[Panthro]

Although Fear Itself has hawt warrior ladies with magic hammers

You have to dig that

I can find that anywhere on line.

 

[Mystirious]

Fair point

 

[The Morningstar]

Considering this title is called "Flash" it sure as hell isn't going anywhere. I don't think i've seen decompression this bad since... well, ever.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Haven't read the newer issues, but I read the first trade and yeah, the decompression was pretty steep.

 

[Mystirious]

I have only read the odd issue but i got the impression the plot took forever to go anywhere

 

[Drz]

Newsarama has an exclusive interview on Batman: Knight of Vengeance!

- He's older than the Batman we know.
- He's more "bad-ass" and angry.
- His casino funds his crimefighting. So all the criminal scum who spent their time on the casino are practically funding Batman.
- His villains include many of the same names, but they're very different in this universe. Joker, Catwoman, Killer Croc and Penguin are confirmed villains.
- Gotham is very different too. James Gordon and the GDPC are privitized by Batman.

Basic pitch is that the this is a nasty Batman who only cares about Gotham and is dedicated into "saving it" while being morally bankrupt more or less, being a brilliant tactician instead of the world's greatest detective, but we know Batman and Flash will ultimately team up, the mini-series is pretty much Azzarello fleshing out the Gotham and it's inhabitants in this mini-series and showing why this Batman is badass.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Flashpoint Batman: 20% more of a dick than regular Batman.

 

[Mystirious]

That sounds awful

Don't think i am going to buy Batman: Knight of Vengeance. Batman being a dbag doesnt really interest me

Unless its funny like on those old silver age covers where he and Superman are having a private contest to see who can be the bigger **** to their friends and loved ones

 

[Drz]

Flashpoint Batman: 20% more of a dick than regular Batman.

Azzarello made Batman an outright villain in Joker. It's much more than 20%.

Tony Bedard talks Emperor Aquaman!

Flashpoint Aquaman once had a relationship with Wonder Woman, and they were even "willing to give marriage a go for the sake of both their homelands."
- Something happened to change their feelings, and now they have "white-hot hatred" for each other.
- This version of the character is "scarred" and "embittered," although he feels conflicted about what he's doing in the war.
- Atlantis vs. Amazons is obviously a huge central thing in Flashpoint, the mini touches upon Aquaman's character and so forth.
- Aquaman is ruthless due to the attempt murder in his life and while Tom Curry tried to teach him the right morals and whatnot, the attempted murders left big scars to him.
- Aquaman and Wonder Woman hate each other and blame each other for their biggest losses, so are we to understand Mera and Hippolyta somehow died due to these two? Oh and before this tragic they we're both willing to get married for the sake of their people, not true love.
- Emperor Aquaman is definitely a darker mirror version of "our" Aquaman, but he isn't a heartless monster. He feels conflicted and guilty and everything else you might expect. But he's gone so far over the line that now there's no going back.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Flashpoint Aquaman: 60% more of a dick than regular Aquaman.

 

[Anubis]

Still......not quite Namor level dick.

 

[SuperFerret]

That is ******ed if the plot is as simple as that.

Simple plots work best and are simply not ******ed.

Examples:

Destroy the one ring.
Overthrow the Evil Empire.
Stop the Nazis from taking the Lost Ark.
etc.
etc.

 

[Mystirious]

Still......not quite Namor level dick.

No one is as bad as Namor

No one

 

[The Morningstar]

Namor is a funny dick though.

 

[Mystirious]

Sometimes he is sometimes he's just a jerk

 

[Superman_]

Simple plots work best and are simply not ******ed.

Examples:

Destroy the one ring.
Overthrow the Evil Empire.
Stop the Nazis from taking the Lost Ark.
etc.
etc.

But that one was pointless. If you had just let them have the ark in the first place. Then you would have saved yourself the trouble because the end result would have been the same only in one ending you might have taken out Hitler as well.