CBR: Geoff Johns On The Shockers Of "Flashpoint" #1

**CBR News** · 05-12-2011, 11:35 AM

DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns speeds into CBR for a rundown of the changes at the heart of DC's summer event "Flashpoint" including the secrets of the world's Batman and a first look at Andy Kubert's cover to issue #4.

Full article here.

**Sabrewulf** · 05-12-2011, 11:46 AM

Great interview. Really enjoyed this book. It actually felt like an event book. Love the new characters. Wasn't initially interested in the spin off titles but there a few I can see myself picking up now.

Is it juist me of does Element Woman remind anyone else of Delirium.

Can't wait to find out who the rest of the Secret Seven are. Like Brightest Day it is bringing attention to underused characters.

I hope after this is voer we go into a bi-weekly series that follows the hangovers from the Flashpoint universe and their new status quo, as we did with Brigthest Day.

**Desaad** · 05-12-2011, 12:01 PM

That's what's fun in this. It's not what you expect. It's not the same old, same old. That was very important to us doing the story. And it also makes this much more accessible, because you're meeting these guys for the first time, just like the Flash is. There are no other comics with The Outsider or Element Woman or Blackout or the S!H!A!Z!A!M! kids. These are all brand-new concepts that are there for the first time.

That's a key point for me. Huge, huge deal. I'll be picking up the main series and well over half the spin off titles and one shots for just this reason. Lots of new, exciting stuff going on here.

Frankly, I was underwhelmed by a lot of the craft and events of the first issue. But where it most succeeded was in presenting a world that felt like a world, that had a history, that had relationships, and presenting them in a way that made me want to know more.

So I'm on board.

**Desaad** · 05-12-2011, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Sabrewulf

Great interview. Really enjoyed this book. It actually felt like an event book. Love the new characters. Wasn't initially interested in the spin off titles but there a few I can see myself picking up now.

Is it juist me of does Element Woman remind anyone else of Delirium.

I think Johns is extrapolating from the Neil Gaiman Sandman issue featuring Element Woman and Death. But yes, there is a bit of delirium in her, just less insanity and more pathetic lonelyness.

And yeah, my big hope is that some of these characters get some spin offs after Flashpoint

**Slyfer** · 05-12-2011, 12:17 PM

I don't know it just doesn't feel like an event book to me

**Theozilla** · 05-12-2011, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Slyfer

I don't know it just doesn't feel like an event book to me

Is that a good or bad thing for you?

That aside, Flashpoint is double-shipping in August? That is interesting. I wonder if there will be anything else coming later to balance out Fear Itself for its last two months.

**bongoes** · 05-12-2011, 12:48 PM

I gotta say, I don't think there's a single tie-in that doesn't intrigue me. I'm not getting all of them because that would be ridiculous, but I want to know what's going on in all of them. Except maybe Pirate Deathstroke, that looks kinda boring.

Originally Posted by Theozilla

That aside, Flashpoint is double-shipping in August? That is interesting. I wonder if there will be anything else coming later to balance out Fear Itself for its last two months.

I have a feeling something huge is coming in September. I mean that's probably when the new Aquaman is supposed to start, and that'll hopefully be huge, but I think there's going to be something even bigger.

**DarkKnghtJared** · 05-12-2011, 12:49 PM

So the Outsider is an original character? Crap, I was hoping that they were really going for obscurity and having that be Alfred.

**GiantRaven** · 05-12-2011, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by bongoes

I have a feeling something huge is coming in September. I mean that's probably when the new Aquaman is supposed to start, and that'll hopefully be huge, but I think there's going to be something even bigger.

There are rumors going around of a Batman event in September.

**coffeebreath** · 05-12-2011, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by GiantRaven

There are rumors going around of a Batman event in September.

Any sources or just message board chatter?

**doordoor123** · 05-12-2011, 10:34 PM

Im really upset because im a DC and Marvel fan. I want to pick up all of the tie-ins for this event but Marvel is having three events at once this summer that i want to pick up (Not all of their tie-ins though)
Is there any way i could figure out what the most important tie-ins are? NO. NEVER. Lets just tell buyers that theyre all important so they pick up all of them and find out only one or two were ACTUALLY important. PLEASE make me waste the money i can barely spend on comics that have no long term effect.
Im a fan of continuity. Sure i like good stand alone books but i dont have the money to buy those books and keep up with continuity.

**Wulfmir** · 05-13-2011, 05:28 AM

I really liked this issue. Flashpoint #1 effectively illustrates what is wrong with the situation. It starts simply enough Barry remembering his mom, deceased. Baseline status quo. Then hints "Citizen" Cold after that Nora Allen is alive. Something wrong. Then it zooms out from Barry the show the scope of the situation, not just a solitary incident with the Flash everything is changed. Then in the comes back to Barry. Love the story telling.

I have a healthy knowledge of what to expect here for Flashpoint #1 thanks to all the teases and hundreds of speculative posts over the sites, congratulations to those that got things right

, but if I ask myself "what happens next issue?" I get blank, and thats what makes me excited.

**Azmodeous** · 05-13-2011, 05:31 AM

I liked it, it doesn't feel like a big company wide crossover event because it really isn't. At the heart of this story is Barry Allen and what's happened to the world around him. I like the world that's been created around him and am interested in the reading a few of the books that will be published though I will probably wait and cherry pick them after the main series is over! I also love the fact that this is only going to be 4 months and done and hopefully they're far enough ahead that it will not ship late!