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[Nightwing 52]

First look at Barry by Francis Manapul!

http://twitpic.com/kndbs

Sweet.

 

[Hush]

I love Manpul. He is great, but he makes his characters look too young for me.

 

[NightBeetle]

http://comics.ign.com/articles/104/1044840p1.html

BLACKEST NIGHT: FLASH #3

On sale February 17 - 3 of 3 - 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by Geoff Johns - Art and cover by Scott Kolins - Variant cover by Francis Manapul

It's a case of the chicken-or-the-egg as Barry Allen takes on the Black Lantern Reverse-Flash and seeks answers to the very nature of Professor Zoom's impending resurrection. Plus, the Rogues witness an act so horrifying that it changes one of their own forever.

Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. For every 25 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by Scott Kolins), retailers may order one copy of the Variant Edition (with a cover by Francis Manapul). Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.

 

[javi1024]

i LOVE Manapul's art. i was so pissed when i found out he was at comic-con i didnt have anything for him to sign.

 

[Kurosawa]

It's really nice...has just the right bit on angular work on it to bring Infantino to mind.

 

[NightBeetle]

Flash: Rebirth #5 Preview

A few things about this issue: Readers will meet the greatest threat to face the Flash family in decades. A new hero will step into an old speedster’s boots. Barry Allen makes the ultimate sacrifice. Yep. You read that correctly. Courtesy of superstar writer Geoff Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver. You’ve heard it said before, but this issue doesn’t dance around it — nothing will be the same.
FLASH: REBIRTH #5 hits 11/18.

 

[Kurosawa]

Maybe he'll solve the mystery of his mothers murder even though I saw her in lots of old Flash issues too.

I dub Geoff Johns Hackus Maximus.

 

[yenaled]

I can't stand that stupid murder retcon.

 

[Kurosawa]

I can't stand that stupid murder retcon.

I don't get the point of bringing the character back if you are going to make such fundamental changes in them. They didn't need to go all Horatio Caine with Barry. So lame.

 

[flash13]

Wally is the greatest and Ethan Van Sciver makes him look awesome!

 

[hippie_hunter]

I don't get the point of bringing the character back if you are going to make such fundamental changes in them. They didn't need to go all Horatio Caine with Barry. So lame.

I'm still thinking (and hoping) that it was Professor Zoom using time travel to kill his mother and frame his father and Barry will correct it at the end.

 

[Assassin]

Ethan told me that #5 will be the issue where Wally gets a new suit. And I dont think its a retcon, Zoom went back in time and killed his mother and made it look like it was Barry's father.

 

[Assassin]

oops maybe i should read everything before i post lol

 

[Kurosawa]

I'm still thinking (and hoping) that it was Professor Zoom using time travel to kill his mother and frame his father and Barry will correct it at the end.

Not a chance. I bet Johns didn't even know they were alive Pre-Crisis. It's not like he does any research or knows jack.

 

[Assassin]

wow. I hope you get H1N1 like yesterday

 

[SouLeSS]

Wally is just going to wear the reverse flash uniform.

 

[flash13]

Wally is just going to wear the reverse flash uniform.

That would suck.....

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wally is just going to wear the reverse flash uniform.

Kid Flash costume, you mean. Let the clothes match the status, right?

I'm kidding. I just couldn't resist.

 

[Assassin]

well if you read the preview it sounds like he's gonna be the new johnny quick or one of the other speedsters who died's uniform

 

[flash13]

I don't think so because in the solicits for The Flash: Blackest Night it calls Barry and Wally the two Flashes.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but my point was that Johns will inevitably treat Wally like the "junior" Flash and Barry as the "real" one. My wit is just too sophisticated, it seems. Le sigh.

 

[flash13]

I was talking about the idea that Wally would become Johnny Quick or some other dead speedster.

I agree that Johns is going to treat Wally like Kid Flash, I knew it was to much to hope for a continuation of his Wally series when I heard he was back on Flash.

 

[Brown Lantern]

Wally is just going to wear the reverse flash uniform.

Why would he wear and honor the uniform of a mass murderer? He will not wear the Kid Flash uniform either. There is a Kid Flash already and Wally has proven to be a adult hero in his own right. My guess is he will still be the Flash but just with a different more modern costume. Then he will get shoved into a group book only to be killed years later in a explosion of speed force just to piss all the fanboys off.

Who here would read a book called "Speed Force" about a team with Jay, Wally, Bart, and all the other flashes? Sounds like it could be good if handed to the right writer.

 

[SouLeSS]

Yeah, but my point was that Johns will inevitably treat Wally like the "junior" Flash and Barry as the "real" one. My wit is just too sophisticated, it seems. Le sigh.

Oh, I loled at it when I read it. Mostly cause you're right though.

 

[flash13]

I would read it! How about Mark Waid as the writer.