(B+) 79% | GoodNotes: Wherein big names play plot devices and the universe, ironically, reboots with a story about restoring the status quo.

One of the DC’s modern crown jewels! I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of making a better overall review.This TPB edition collects “Flashpoint” #1-5.Creative Team:Writer: Geoff JohnsIllustrator: Andy KubertInker: Sandra Hope ROAD TO HELL… Indeed the road to hell is paved with good intentions.Barry Allen (aka The Flash) just wanted to save his mom, whose have been murdered when he was still a kid and his father was wrongly accused for the

Barry Allen wakes up from a nap to discover that the world he knew has radically changed. BOO!But his murdered mother is now alive and well. YAY!But Barry’s dad is still dead. BOO!But Barry’s dad wasn’t wrongly convicted of his mother’s murder and lived a long happy life. YAY!But Barry now doesn’t have his Flash powers. BOO!But Barry realizes that no one has ever heard of Superman. YAY! (That’s not a mistake. Superman is boring as hell.)But Barry learns that Atlantis and the Amazons, led by Aqua...

Flash’s mom was murdered when he was a kid so he decides to travel back in time and stop the killer. Except messing with the timestream has kinda caused everything to get fucked up - oopsies! Who’da thunk it?! Really, superheroes have just gotta get over their tragic backstories and move on… So Flashpoint was kinda the beginning of DC’s New 52 line in that Barry Allen’s selfish meddling with time caused every title to be rebooted/relaunched. But it’s also not because nothing that happens here -

I came into this reading not expecting much, because Flash has never been one of my favorites, and so I was surprised Flashpoint was as entertaining as it was. But why a 5 star rating, you ask?Couple of purely personal reasons.One, I love "What If" stories. Yeah, they have been done to death, but I still like them. Guess that is why I also read alternate history novels.Two, I'm a man who is very close to his mother as well as being very close to my own kids, so a couple of the story lines emotio...

Rating: 4.5 stars.I watched the animation version of this story first and I admit the animation version is an improvement over an already impressive story.The comic version of the story isn’t narrated in the exact same way like the anime: Barry Allen/The Flash woke up to find himself losing his power the world isn’t the same like he once known, his mother (who was murdered when he was a child) turned out to be still alive, Justice League is nonexist, no one has ever heard of Superman, Batman is

Purchased this TPB after watching the Flashpoint Paradox DC animated movie, lured by Andy Kubert's awesome artworks.Not bad at all, a nice What If Elseworld with an huge debt to Marvel's Age of Apocalypse and in desperate need of some issues more to be fully developed for good, I know there are omnibus collecting tie-ins, but main storyline was just too much rushed in just 5 issues.But for that I really enjoyed this storyline leading to DC New 52 and Flashpoint Thomas Wayne is just one of the be...

So this is the lead-in for the New 52 re-boot? Huh.Well, it's not particularly bad, but it's not exactly mind-blowing, either. I can see why quite a few other reviewers were disappointed in it. It had that squished together, forced out, and then squished together again kind of feel to it. Blah. It could have been so much better.Possibly it just didn't work for me because I've always felt that The Flash was one of the least cool members of the Justice League. It takes a lot of work and a great st...

I could do a very long-winded review, but this image sums it up so much better.

Barry goes back in time to prevent his mother's murder. He succeeds, but it comes with a price. Now, Barry lost his powers, and is now responsible for a World War 3 between the Atlanteans and the Amazons. It is up to Barry to save the day. This comic is supposed to be the starting point for The New 52. I dunno, I guess that they didn't really put that much of an effort into it?I've had some problems with it:1. The fact that this version of Batman is supposed to be like the best crime fighter or

I'm tired of writing about how much I hate Geoff Johns. I'm tired of writing about how much I think the New 52 completely ruined DC Comics. But seriously -- there's no comics publisher more uniformly generic in 2015 than DC. The art's the same, the stories are the same, the writing's the same, and it's all shit. DC has a warehouse-sized bank of cool, weird characters and almost 100 years of history, and somehow they've compressed it all into one flavorless batch of meh. In whatever normal comic-...

I'm a big sucker for time travel stories. The adventure, the speculation, the paradoxes, I just love it all. So the possibilities of the extent of The Flash's powers fascinate me. And so I really wanted to read this popular story that essentially reset the entire DC Universe.Flashpoint begins when Barry Allen wakes up at his desk and the entire world has changed. There is no Justice League, his mother is alive, and the world is on the brink of disaster due to a globe-spanning turf war between Aq...

Past Crisis-level (with the exception of Identity Crisis) crossovers of DC are either multiverse-wide cataclysms or a war with the gods. They happen in space, an alternate universe or some crazy, otherworldy place. Geoff John's Flashpoint is a way more simple than that. The story that gave birth to DC's shortlived New 52 era plays under the premise that someone mysteriously messed up the timeline. And you know? It works. I liked reading Flashpoint, as with many other series written by Geoff John...

The premiere of the new Flash television series gave Comixology and DC Comics a reason to markdown some excellent digital collections that I just found it the right time to read Flashpoint by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert.My impression of DC crossovers was that a single artist is usually unable to draw it for the entire duration of a miniseries; examples would be Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis. I was impressed by how Andy Kubert managed to provide full pencils for the entire 5-issue miniseries,

I know I’m biased because The Flash is my favorite hero, but I think this is dollar for dollar one of the best story arcs in all of comics. Even compared to The Watchman, V for Vendetta and The Sandman.Notice those are all DC?I’m a DC guy if you didn’t know. Marvel makes some fine films, but DC comics are better.I talked to a friend some time ago and asked the DC or Marvel question and she had an interesting response: Marvel better overall but DC has the best villains.And that leads me to our vi...

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.This is the story that sets things in motion for what everyone knows as the New 52 for the DC Universe. Flashpoint puts The Flash center stage as the world’s fastest man alive wakes up at his desk completely oblivious to all the life-changing events taking place around the world. Slowly realizing that things aren’t what they used to be, with people who weren’t supposed to be alive suddenly all happy and well, and others who simply don’t exist an...

I decided to read this after hearing about Ezra Miller doing some totally out of character behavior in Hawaii, since let’s be honest true believers, this Flash movie will never come out. And now I don’t really know why I walked all the way to the library to read this dumbass book. God it’s so fucking dumb. I hate this book alot. Hopefully that sequel thing Geoff Johns is doing is good, because I did like Doomsday Clock alot, but this? Not so much.Flashpoint is just not a very good Flash story, a...

Yeahhhhhhh, that was nice. It started out a little confusing, but that was the purpose. Great art. Super great concept.

UPDATED: I went back and read The Flash: Rebirth, The Flash, Vol. 1: The Dastardly Death of the Rogues and The Flash, Vol. 2: The Road to Flashpoint and then read Flashpoint again. I'm elevating my rating to four stars, because I genuinely liked this story, but I do think there are some flaws. (view spoiler)[I think a little more time should have been spent examining Barry's thought process when he changed the past. The previous volumes helped support his need to and desire to "fix" things, but

Re-read 2019I felt like this was really worth the reread. I took more in this time around, understood a bit more, and still really liked how dark it was. Even though this is a Flash story, I think my favorite is still Batman. He took broodiness to a while new level.First read review below:This was my first Flash comic, and other than watching Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited, I don't know much about the character or his life. Even so, I wanted to give him a try, and I'm happy I start...