Flashpoint #5

Flashpoint (Single Issues) #5

by Geoff Johns, Andy Kubert (Illustrator)

This is it! The final battle for the sake of the world and time itself! The cause of the ripple in time stands revealed, but can the Flash make right what once went wrong? The end is only the beginning as the DC Comics event reaches its epic and game-changing conclusion!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Science Fiction

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.

His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.

Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.

Reviews

[Ruponti · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thomas's letter to Bruce 🥹

[Craig Schorling · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ending of this issue was really great. The letter to Bruce tugs at the heart strings. Overall, this was a series that felt different than what I was expecting. It took me forever to finally get to it and I am glad that I did. A lot of the side stuff felt odd for me and that could be the fact that I'm not well versed on the storylines and characters from the time. The core story here is really great though. Flash and Thomas is so good. One more series to cross of the list.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this was the "Shark Jump" of the DCU. Because at this point, DC essentially wrote itself into a corner. It failed to have any lasting change from Final Crisis and Blackest Night--the Fifth World never happened.

Instead, the DCU started to become a cancer that subsumed it's other properties; with Brightest Day, it started to pull-in it's Vertigo properties. Milestone Forever had Earth-M merge with the DCU. Flashpoint/New 52 melded the DCU Proper with Vertigo and Wildstorm.

It literally introduced a character named Pandora. That was the box that started it all; the Hail Mary pass that led to Before Watchmen (and Doomsday Clock), Sandman: Overture, Promethea in the JLA,

This story destroyed DC's past (the JSA) and their Future (Legion of Superheroes).

It also set-up part of Rebirth and Tom King's Batman run.

[Index Purga]

Edición argentina en revista con ISBN propio que emula la española. Traduce Flashpoint #5.

[OinkFish Pigs · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was pretty sad ngl☹️

High 9.5

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very emotional moments, but the momentum is briefly ruined by the mention of three timelines being merged, which is essentially just DC's imprints being folded into the main continuity.

[Yerenny Salas · Rating 4 out of 5]

vivan los padres (Thomas wayne dejándole una carta a Bruce y la mamá de Barry sacrificándose para traer la armonía del mundo)

[Mikey Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

what a goddamn ending. the speed force is dangerous!!!!

[Ribrarian Not · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cuaderno de historietas con ISBN propio. Equivale al quinto número USA de Flashpoint.

[Guido · Rating 2 out of 5]

Momento del parto de los Nuevos 52, donde fusionan sin demasiado sentido el uDC tradicional, el subuniverso Vertigo y el sello Wildstorm.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Número 4 y final de la edición argentina de Flashpoint, que dio pie a la productiva pero efímera etapa de "ECC Sudamérica". Traduce Flashpoint #5 USA.

[Pato Myers · Rating 3 out of 5]

So this was a fun premise and good execution, but I hate the reasoning. The original time or at least the first one we know about, Barry Allen had his parents, became the Flash, is a hero, got a fanboy (in the future which means the future is safe from the wonder woman and aquaman war) who became a villain. Second timeline villain goes back in time and kills Barry's mom, frames his dad so he doesn't have his parents, he becomes the Flash, is a hero, fights villain. Third time line he goes back in time and saves his mom and that mess up everything ever to the point that the city or world is off point so Kal-El's pod hits a city instead of farm. His mom dying was not integral to Barry Allen becoming the Flash the first time what stops the third time line Allen from gaining powers? Based on the fact that changing things to the second time line's history to make it mirror the first time line's history ended up with a vastly different third time line how would Barry Allen going back and making things mirror the second timeline fix anything instead of creating a fourth time line potentially worse?
No matter what Barry does the time line will be different and the world as he knows it is dead. I'll keep reading this, but he could have changed anything other than his mother's murder as it is not some key point in the universes history or it would have mattered to the first timeline. He could have given Thawne's ancestors a vasectomy. He could have gone way back and kicked a stranger for all he knows. He doesn't know how and doesn't have the control to change things as he wants so why the bloody hell would he pick letting his mom get murdered?