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The Flash: Green Arrow's Perfect Shot (Crossover Crisis #1)
It’s the crossover event fans have been waiting for, as The Flash joins forces with Green Arrow!
When the Green Arrow needs help tracking down a sinister bomber in Star City, speedster Barry Allen is out the door in a flash. But as The Flash saves the day with his friends on Team Arrow, a huge dimensional rift appears over his hometown of Central City—and thousands of refugees with superspeed come pouring out. Can the combined skills of Team Arrow and The Flash’s friends at S.T.A.R. Labs manage the chaos long enough to stop the rift from tearing their universe apart? This exciting first installment in the new crossover trilogy promises to be one of the most action-packed reads of the season. Supergirl, Superman, and the heroes from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will be joining in on the fun in books two and three of this can’t-miss trilogy .
When the Green Arrow needs help tracking down a sinister bomber in Star City, speedster Barry Allen is out the door in a flash. But as The Flash saves the day with his friends on Team Arrow, a huge dimensional rift appears over his hometown of Central City—and thousands of refugees with superspeed come pouring out. Can the combined skills of Team Arrow and The Flash’s friends at S.T.A.R. Labs manage the chaos long enough to stop the rift from tearing their universe apart? This exciting first installment in the new crossover trilogy promises to be one of the most action-packed reads of the season. Supergirl, Superman, and the heroes from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will be joining in on the fun in books two and three of this can’t-miss trilogy .
256 pages, Hardcover
First published August 13, 2019
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Barry Lyga
71 books2,194 followersBarry Lyga is a recovering comic book geek. According to Kirkus, he's also a "YA rebel-author." Somehow, the two just don't seem to go together to him.
When he was a kid, everyone told him that comic books were garbage and would rot his brain, but he had the last laugh. Raised on a steady diet of comics, he worked in the comic book industry for ten years, but now writes full-time because, well, wouldn't you?
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl is his first novel. Unsoul'd is his latest. There are a whole bunch in between, featuring everything from the aftermath of child abuse to pre-teens with superpowers to serial killers. He clearly does not know how to stick to one subject.
When he was a kid, everyone told him that comic books were garbage and would rot his brain, but he had the last laugh. Raised on a steady diet of comics, he worked in the comic book industry for ten years, but now writes full-time because, well, wouldn't you?
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl is his first novel. Unsoul'd is his latest. There are a whole bunch in between, featuring everything from the aftermath of child abuse to pre-teens with superpowers to serial killers. He clearly does not know how to stick to one subject.
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December 17, 2019
Originally published on The Nerd Daily | Review by Isabella Stocka
“My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive.” – Follow The Flash on his new adventure, this time in the form of a novel. Written by Barry Lyga, Crossover Crisis is the written crossover event every Arrowverse fan always looks forward to.
The Legends of Tomorrow are on the Waverider somewhere in space, while The Green Arrow and The Flash are keeping Star City and Central City safe until there is a breach and metahumans from another earth are coming through. Of course, none of them are playing for the Heroes team. The metas from Earth 27 are the opposite of Earth 1, which is our world. The good guys are evil and the bad guys are good. Central City is now full of speedsters and guys like Ultraman, whose power are similar to Superman and Kryptonite cannot harm him it actually powers him up. To have the slightest chance to defeat them, Barry needs help from Green Arrow and his team.
Since Arrow has aired, I am now somewhat less faithful to the Arrowverse because I do not like some developments they made on screen lately. Reading this book and imagining the actors was quite fun and the novel refers to events that have just taken place in the last couple season of The Flash and Arrow so it feels like a little refresher.
Still, the book stands on its own and should not be mixed up with the TV shows. Using the multiverse, the book tells the story of another Barry who did not create Flashpoint. Ray explains it on the first couple of pages and later Cisco tells Team Flash about his monthly conversation with himself from the other timeline.
For the 250 something pages, there were quite a few different storylines moving forward at the same time. While Barry and his team work together with half of Oliver and his Green Arrow Team in Central City, Jo helps in Star City with a well-known Bee Lady. I would have loved to get to know more about the shortly introduced Madam Xanadu who is not a meta but uses real magic!
What I really liked was that everyone has a bad doppelgänger and that even the noble Bruce Wayne has one and the “…to be continued” sounds like we will have quite a lot of him in the next instalment in which Barry and Oliver gets help from Supergirl to defeat Anti-Matter Man, a weapon used in an invasion of the positive matter universe, a power that even its creator fears it.
Some time ago, I had the pleasure of reading Bang by Barry Lyra, which is an entirely different and more mature story. Let me tell you, no matter which book you will pick up by him, you will not be disappointed. No matter what he writes, you going to love it!
“My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive.” – Follow The Flash on his new adventure, this time in the form of a novel. Written by Barry Lyga, Crossover Crisis is the written crossover event every Arrowverse fan always looks forward to.
The Legends of Tomorrow are on the Waverider somewhere in space, while The Green Arrow and The Flash are keeping Star City and Central City safe until there is a breach and metahumans from another earth are coming through. Of course, none of them are playing for the Heroes team. The metas from Earth 27 are the opposite of Earth 1, which is our world. The good guys are evil and the bad guys are good. Central City is now full of speedsters and guys like Ultraman, whose power are similar to Superman and Kryptonite cannot harm him it actually powers him up. To have the slightest chance to defeat them, Barry needs help from Green Arrow and his team.
Since Arrow has aired, I am now somewhat less faithful to the Arrowverse because I do not like some developments they made on screen lately. Reading this book and imagining the actors was quite fun and the novel refers to events that have just taken place in the last couple season of The Flash and Arrow so it feels like a little refresher.
Still, the book stands on its own and should not be mixed up with the TV shows. Using the multiverse, the book tells the story of another Barry who did not create Flashpoint. Ray explains it on the first couple of pages and later Cisco tells Team Flash about his monthly conversation with himself from the other timeline.
For the 250 something pages, there were quite a few different storylines moving forward at the same time. While Barry and his team work together with half of Oliver and his Green Arrow Team in Central City, Jo helps in Star City with a well-known Bee Lady. I would have loved to get to know more about the shortly introduced Madam Xanadu who is not a meta but uses real magic!
What I really liked was that everyone has a bad doppelgänger and that even the noble Bruce Wayne has one and the “…to be continued” sounds like we will have quite a lot of him in the next instalment in which Barry and Oliver gets help from Supergirl to defeat Anti-Matter Man, a weapon used in an invasion of the positive matter universe, a power that even its creator fears it.
Some time ago, I had the pleasure of reading Bang by Barry Lyra, which is an entirely different and more mature story. Let me tell you, no matter which book you will pick up by him, you will not be disappointed. No matter what he writes, you going to love it!
May 4, 2021
What I really like about Lyga's takes on The Flash is that he really values his main character. We get an insight into Barry Allen's emotions, his relationships with others and everlasting effects and complications of his powers that the TV show usually skips over. As a big fan of the character, I am incredibly thankful for all that.
The story and dialogue is a bit corny at times, but that makes it fun to read. I really enjoy the worldbuilding and villains and can't wait to continue the series!
The story and dialogue is a bit corny at times, but that makes it fun to read. I really enjoy the worldbuilding and villains and can't wait to continue the series!
August 29, 2019
God, I love these books. Barry Lyga's love for the characters and the universe(s) that they inhabit is so obvious, and he somehow manages to make insane characters like the Anti-Matter Man and bloody Ambush Bug of all people work in context while telling a high stakes story worthy of a TV crossover, as well as throwing in some in-jokes and meta commentary at the same time. I thought his previous Flash trilogy was excellent, and roping in the rest of the Arrowverse shows no sign of stretching him too thin. More, more, more!
August 31, 2019
I’ll stipulate upfront that Barry Lyga is an old pal from his days at Diamond Distributing. I’ve delighted to see him become a successful YA novelist and here, he brings his two worlds together in the latest of Amulet Books’ series of novels based on the CW shows. Lyga has been writing books based on The Flash, mining the show and the comics it is based on for a satisfying blend.
This novel is actually the first chapter that, as the title suggests, will involve not only Team Flash but Green Arrow, the Legends, and Supergirl. What could possibly require so much firepower? Well, let’s start with the arrival of speedster refugees from Earth-27 and their oppressors, the Crime Syndicate of America. Harassing the residents of that world is Anti-Matter Man (a one-off foe from the JLA-JSA team-up in Justice League of America #47-48), a seemingly mindless creation from the anti-matter universe of Qward.
See? You definitely need to know your DC lore to fully appreciate the Easter eggs scattered throughout the novel. Thankfully, Lyga pauses to explain al the television continuity references, especially as they relate to characters and previous episodes.
Now, if the CSA isn’t enough of a problem, Joe West and Dinah Drake, Black Canary, are on the hunt for crimes seemingly perpetrated by the Bug-Eyed Bandit, but they also encounter Irwin Schwab. Yes, Barry has managed to integrate Ambush Bug into the narrative and it makes the reader chuckle.
Readers need to pay close attention, because the story here and in his previous trilogy, are set in a splinter reality, one where Flashpoint didn’t happen so, for example, Dig’s child is still a girl. It’s a neat way to offer up the same flavor of adventure without messing with the still-evolving television continuity. The temporal mechanics of this splinter reality and its own multiverse may give you headache so best not to think too much about that but focus instead on the story.
There’s plenty of rising action, plenty of fighting with Ultraman, Superwoman, Johnny Quick, and Power Ring, but what’s real interesting is the hidden, growing menace posed by Owlman. We get this through Earth-27’s James Jesse, who is not the Trickster, but deathly afraid of the costumed criminal.
If Lyga could have done anything differently, it would have been to to focus more on the characters, their personalities, and their interactions. He does this with Joe and Dinah but it just made me want to see more.
This YA novel is a good, easy read and if you enjoy the series it's based on, then you’ll have a good time here. You can expect the second installment in 2020.
This novel is actually the first chapter that, as the title suggests, will involve not only Team Flash but Green Arrow, the Legends, and Supergirl. What could possibly require so much firepower? Well, let’s start with the arrival of speedster refugees from Earth-27 and their oppressors, the Crime Syndicate of America. Harassing the residents of that world is Anti-Matter Man (a one-off foe from the JLA-JSA team-up in Justice League of America #47-48), a seemingly mindless creation from the anti-matter universe of Qward.
See? You definitely need to know your DC lore to fully appreciate the Easter eggs scattered throughout the novel. Thankfully, Lyga pauses to explain al the television continuity references, especially as they relate to characters and previous episodes.
Now, if the CSA isn’t enough of a problem, Joe West and Dinah Drake, Black Canary, are on the hunt for crimes seemingly perpetrated by the Bug-Eyed Bandit, but they also encounter Irwin Schwab. Yes, Barry has managed to integrate Ambush Bug into the narrative and it makes the reader chuckle.
Readers need to pay close attention, because the story here and in his previous trilogy, are set in a splinter reality, one where Flashpoint didn’t happen so, for example, Dig’s child is still a girl. It’s a neat way to offer up the same flavor of adventure without messing with the still-evolving television continuity. The temporal mechanics of this splinter reality and its own multiverse may give you headache so best not to think too much about that but focus instead on the story.
There’s plenty of rising action, plenty of fighting with Ultraman, Superwoman, Johnny Quick, and Power Ring, but what’s real interesting is the hidden, growing menace posed by Owlman. We get this through Earth-27’s James Jesse, who is not the Trickster, but deathly afraid of the costumed criminal.
If Lyga could have done anything differently, it would have been to to focus more on the characters, their personalities, and their interactions. He does this with Joe and Dinah but it just made me want to see more.
This YA novel is a good, easy read and if you enjoy the series it's based on, then you’ll have a good time here. You can expect the second installment in 2020.
September 22, 2019
I'm always excited for these Flash books to come out, and this was another great read. Great action, great set up for the rest of this set of novels. Excellent ways of explaining things, adding easter eggs, and since these books take place in an alternate timeline where Flashpoint didn't happen, even finding a way to actually call the shows' timeline which they found out about in the last book, the “TV” timeline. I love things like that so much. Completely recommend these books, always looking forward to more, and really hoping that there will still be more even after this Crisis set is done.
December 7, 2019
There was already one trilogy of kid-friendly novelettes that Barry Lyga wrote for The Flash, and now he's finally getting to play crossover just in time for the CW's own Crisis on Infinite Earths adaptation - even if it is far more inspired by Crisis on Earth-X instead. Though still in a pretty distinct 'verse from the CW shows - which are humorously referred to as the "TV-world," short for "transmultiversal" if I remember correctly - this new series flawlessly works in the cast of Arrow at every level as awe and some as Lyga's work on the cast of The Flash. That is to say, on point characterization and then some, and I'm especially hyped that Olicity remains canon in this series. Gotta show the kids more true love, eh? The cast of Legends of Tomorrow make a few appearances as well, and with the promise of a massive cliffhanger, we could be getting to see Supergirl as well - does that mean Jo Whittemore's coming back into the picture as well? Who the heck knows, but you know I'll be reading the follow-up to this book as soon as bloody possible!
September 22, 2019
2.5/5
I have to be honest that I was quite critical of this because I really enjoyed the previous CW crossover novels that I've read (by the Griffith duo) so I had high expectations. Unfortunately, Lyga didn't live up to them. When it comes to the overall plot, I couldn't really get into it because… there was too much of it from the very start. I would prefer something with gradually growing stakes. Because this is just volume one of a crossover series, I didn't feel invested in most conflicts that should feel so grand because I knew they'd have to be resolved soon for the rest of the plot to continue over the upcoming novels. Moreover, I admit that I mostly enjoy Arrow/Flash crossovers because of the relationship between Oliver and Barry. I love how their friendship and vigilante cooperation have been developed in tv show and I got that in the Griffiths' crossover novels as well. How Oliver and Barry respect and trust each other but also how they sometimes clash because of their differing worldviews and experiences. In Lyga's novel, I felt like all their interactions were hollow, like a stiff reading out of a script with not real emotions behind the words. It didn't help that I wasn't a fan of how Oliver was written here in general. I don't know yet if I'll decide to read this series on, I'm not sure if I can continue considering the pacing was off for me and how out of character some of the people felt (especially Arrow squad). The best thing about this book is the gorgeous cover.
I have to be honest that I was quite critical of this because I really enjoyed the previous CW crossover novels that I've read (by the Griffith duo) so I had high expectations. Unfortunately, Lyga didn't live up to them. When it comes to the overall plot, I couldn't really get into it because… there was too much of it from the very start. I would prefer something with gradually growing stakes. Because this is just volume one of a crossover series, I didn't feel invested in most conflicts that should feel so grand because I knew they'd have to be resolved soon for the rest of the plot to continue over the upcoming novels. Moreover, I admit that I mostly enjoy Arrow/Flash crossovers because of the relationship between Oliver and Barry. I love how their friendship and vigilante cooperation have been developed in tv show and I got that in the Griffiths' crossover novels as well. How Oliver and Barry respect and trust each other but also how they sometimes clash because of their differing worldviews and experiences. In Lyga's novel, I felt like all their interactions were hollow, like a stiff reading out of a script with not real emotions behind the words. It didn't help that I wasn't a fan of how Oliver was written here in general. I don't know yet if I'll decide to read this series on, I'm not sure if I can continue considering the pacing was off for me and how out of character some of the people felt (especially Arrow squad). The best thing about this book is the gorgeous cover.
February 2, 2022
Honestly, this may be my favorite out of the junior reader CW novels.
This book captures every member of Team Arrow and Team Flash really well. It incorporates all of the previous novels in a really fun way and I'm so excited to continue this series. Johnny Quick and his Earth are back, along with the hero rogues, Madame Xanadu is on the scene and it's really fun to see!
One other thing is that I really wasn't sure about the decision to make the non-Flashpoint universe back in Hocus Pocus, but I'm kind of vibing with it now! It also lets them do interesting things with villains and not have to worry about its consequences on the show universe, which is always nice.
Honestly, the young DCTV books sit with me better than the Adult Arrow and Flash novels I've read up to now, which is pretty impressive of them to accomplish. Props to Barry Lyga for sure.
One of the only things I didn't like was that when the novel was arriving at the most climactic parts of the Central City crime syndicate stories, we have to go back to visit the more boring Star City bomber story.
Overall though, definitely read this if you've read the previous three flash books.
This book captures every member of Team Arrow and Team Flash really well. It incorporates all of the previous novels in a really fun way and I'm so excited to continue this series. Johnny Quick and his Earth are back, along with the hero rogues, Madame Xanadu is on the scene and it's really fun to see!
One other thing is that I really wasn't sure about the decision to make the non-Flashpoint universe back in Hocus Pocus, but I'm kind of vibing with it now! It also lets them do interesting things with villains and not have to worry about its consequences on the show universe, which is always nice.
Honestly, the young DCTV books sit with me better than the Adult Arrow and Flash novels I've read up to now, which is pretty impressive of them to accomplish. Props to Barry Lyga for sure.
One of the only things I didn't like was that when the novel was arriving at the most climactic parts of the Central City crime syndicate stories, we have to go back to visit the more boring Star City bomber story.
Overall though, definitely read this if you've read the previous three flash books.
December 6, 2025
its crazy to me that is a young readers. i loved the writing for the characters and i just enjoyed the writing overall. the story line for me was gripping i wanted to know after each page what was going to happen. cant wait to read the next one!
July 10, 2021
Like how the book justifies why it is not in line with "TV Universe". Enjoyed it and ends on big cliffhanger. :)
January 10, 2022
i loved this. reminded me sm of the tv show crossovers which were always my fav. i want the next one immediately thanks
March 29, 2022
Loved how this book sounded like a flash episode with a green arrow crossover on to book 2 of this Trilogy
January 4, 2024
I read his other series for the flash, and I wanted to try out the crossovers that he wrote and I enjoyed it downloaded the whole series on my Kindle that I got for Christmas
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February 3, 2025Read this with my son and now we are going to read the next one in the series
August 14, 2019
The writing style is simple, and this is a quick, easy read, but it isn’t dumbed down. I imagine it’s much like reading a script for one of the shows. Also, as someone who is familiar with both shows but hasn’t watched in quite some time, I wasn’t lost or struggling to figure out who was who or what was going on. There is backstory peppered throughout, and for people who are caught up, it might seem a little redundant, but for someone like me, it was very helpful in allowing me to follow along. I really liked the story and am completely intrigued by the concept of the alternate timeline – I kind of hope that comes up at some point in the series.
Read the full review HERE @ The Geekiary.
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