Buried Alien - THE FASTEST POST ALIVE!
First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
First CBR Appearance (Modern): April, 2014
If anyone deserves to be killed over and over, its Thawne. Stupid miscreant.
Very interesting issue with all the Watchmen parallels. And I liked the lenticular cover.
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Buried Alien - THE FASTEST POST ALIVE!
First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
First CBR Appearance (Modern): April, 2014
I took it as this was the Thawne last seen in Flashpoint. I am not sure if he is the same one that has been running around since then or a totally alternate version. A very good issue all around.
This was AWESOME!
Jason Fabok is the best DC artist right now. Story was dynamic, fun, interesting. Thawne was scary, which is always good. The button-related events were soo cool!!
Hopefully Williamson won't fuck this up.
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This was Amazing!
Really freacking good
People should really give this a read with Watchmen in mind. As other posters have pointed out the issue did an excellent job of referencing back to it. While I'm sure Johns had a major hand in it, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss King's role - as he showed in Grayson, he has a firm grasp on DC lore and is particularly good at homages. I really love how this grand narrative is in the background (well, the foreground here) of all of DC's titles right now. It gives the line a sense of continuity we haven't seen in a long time
Agreed. Very much looking forward to Flash #21 next week. I really appreciate DC's biweekly shipping and how that jives to make the crossover issues a weekly thing.
I'm glad I decided to get the lenticular variants, too. Although it's probably weird that I enjoyed the lenticular effect on the advertisement for Teen Titans: Judas Contract in the back cover more than I did the actual cover.
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At the end of Flash #19, the imprisoned New 52 Eobard Thawne was struck by blue lightning and freed of his constraints. He suddenly regained memories of Flashpoint and being killed by Thomas Wayne. He's now wearing a "reverse" version of Flash's current suit (chin strap, Jim Lee seams, circle around the emblem etc). So not exactly the classic costume, but much more traditional than the New 52 version.
In Batman #21 Thawne talks about having been dead for some time, so it's uncertain if he retains any of his New 52 memories, or considers that version of his life to be "real". Upcoming issues of The Flash will probably clear some of this up.
Is there any mandatory reading in Flash I should try and catch up on before next week? I pretty much am only reading Tec, Batman, All-Star, Teen Titans and Superman/sons. I am behind on Batgirl/BOP…haven't read any Flash in a long time.