Flashpoint #1
Ah the crossover....The yearly event where the optimistic comic fan looks to each new release with the hope that it will provide earth shattering changes to the universes, and characters we all know and love, while the cynical and jaded look to it as another $3.99 a month that Marvel and D.C. pry from our wallets, and that's before all the useless tie-ins that go along with it...... Yeah I REALLY need to read the Canterbury Cricket one-shot, to get the "whole Flashpoint experience"..... Dream on D.C.
With that said, the actual subject matter of the titular title is the focus of this review, and not D.C.'s corporate practices, and on that front "Flashpoint" delivers!!!!! Written by D.C's current "auteur du jour" Geoff Johns. With pencils by Andy Kubert, and Alex Sinclair on colors, Flashpoint is everything I hope for in a major event, It rips you into it's world, and truly lives up to it's tag line "everything you know will change in a FLASH"
As an alternate universe created by The Reverse Flash, everything we know is different, without giving too much away for those who haven't read it yet, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman seem to be the main antagonists, while Cyborg and Captain Cold appear to be at the vanguard of a shaky, (to say the least), alliance of heroes attempting to fight back, while trying to recruit the help of an even more sociopathic Batman than we are used to. Johns' writing is fast and furious, keeping the tempo up all the way to the big twist at the end, and Kubert's pencils don't let him down one bit, everything from the styling of the alternate costumes, and facial expressions of the characters, to the backgrounds of the new Gotham are brilliantly rendered. It just remains to be seen if the next four issues can keep up with this frantic pace, or if it fizzles out like so many events before it. One thing is for sure, the possibilities are endless.
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