CBR: Prof. Zoom Rocks "Flashpoint" Finale

[CBR News]

DC Comics has revealed the final covers to their "Flashpoint" event, featuring a triumphant Professor Zoom leading the way into September's DCU relaunch.


Full article here.

[drakeon]

Very cool cover! Love that artwork. Looks like Thomas Wayne is gonna show just how much of a bada$$ he is. Barry will be caught in battle with Zoom and Batman will pull a "Gotcha" on him!

I wonder if maybe the timeline changes so dramatically becasue Thomas takes it upon himself to change it to make sure that Bruce lives instead of him and Martha...

[Joe Grendel]

For the safety of the multiverse, all the speedsters need to be depowered and locked away. Otherwise, look what happens over and over and over and over ...

[CMBMOOL]

Well I can see why the Timeline is resetted in Septemeber, it is due to Professor Zoom and Flash fight to restore the timeline. However in the process something goes wrong and the time line is messed up to its current status quo, also known as the new 52.

[DisneysFolly]

So something happens in an alternate timeline that creates a new timeline where some origins are revised, some stay the same, some characters retconned, and amazingly every character has gaudy collars.

Linking the company's marketing strategy with the actual storyline seems like a ridiculous move, especially since Flashpoint has just been a fun alternate universe storyline with very little indications of a seemless transition to the reboot.

[2BLACK4U]

So something happens in an alternate timeline that creates a new timeline where some origins are revised, some stay the same, some characters retconned, and amazingly every character has gaudy collars.

Linking the company's marketing strategy with the actual storyline seems like a ridiculous move, especially since Flashpoint has just been a fun alternate universe storyline with very little indications of a seemless transition to the reboot.

thats what they want us to think

[drakeon]

So something happens in an alternate timeline that creates a new timeline where some origins are revised, some stay the same, some characters retconned, and amazingly every character has gaudy collars.

Linking the company's marketing strategy with the actual storyline seems like a ridiculous move, especially since Flashpoint has just been a fun alternate universe storyline with very little indications of a seemless transition to the reboot.

Flashpoint isnt an alternate universe. Zoom messed with the timeline, altering events to create the current landscape of the world. Thats why Barry is searching for the "flashpoint", that moment in the timestream where everything changed from a single alteration. A 'butterfly effect' phenomenon.

[drakeon]

For the safety of the multiverse, all the speedsters need to be depowered and locked away. Otherwise, look what happens over and over and over and over ...

Didio has stated that after flashpoint "the timstream is closed"...

[DisneysFolly]

Flashpoint isnt an alternate universe. Zoom messed with the timeline, altering events to create the current landscape of the world. Thats why Barry is searching for the "flashpoint", that moment in the timestream where everything changed from a single alteration. A 'butterfly effect' phenomenon.

I'm not very familiar with how DC handles its multiverses and all of that, just how Marvel does it. Wouldn't everything we know to have happened for decades (or at least the variations of what we know) to make up different universes and this is just another one to add to that?

[bongoes]

I'm not very familiar with how DC handles its multiverses and all of that, just how Marvel does it. Wouldn't everything we know to have happened for decades (or at least the variations of what we know) to make up different universes and this is just another one to add to that?

No, right now DC only has 52 parallel worlds (though I suspect Flashpoint might change that). Altering time in the DCU is different from Marvel where every alternate timeline gets it's own Earth. By altering the timeline you don't create a new universe, you change the universe you altered.

[rauj13]

Didio has stated that after flashpoint "the timstream is closed"...

Ha. Yea right. They may want that to be true, but it won't stay that way.

[drakeon]

Ha. Yea right. They may want that to be true, but it won't stay that way.

Everything changes back eventually, but for the time being the ability to travel in time will somehow be ended. I guess this means the legion Lost are stuck for awhile.

[Neutrino]

So... I guess evil did win in the end. The harbinger of the New 52 is a 25th Century fanboy.

Hey, if they ever want to undo the reboot, at least they have something to base the story around.

[drakeon]

So... I guess evil did win in the end. The harbinger of the New 52 is a 25th Century fanboy.

Hey, if they ever want to undo the reboot, at least they have something to base the story around.

At least its not caused by a boy with a temper tantrum pounding on the walls of reality!

[Buried Alien]

So... I guess evil did win in the end.

It's more like mutual defeat. Neither Barry nor Thawne quite achieves his objective. Thawne fails to completely ruin Barry's life, but Barry fails to restore the old timeline.

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