Can you feel the shockwaves across DC fandom?! The Flash #22 is here. The finale of The Button, picking up the mystery launched in DC Universe Rebirth #1 last summer with a HUGE revelation.
In this week’s finale by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter, a Golden Age hero returns, a bad guy dies and the identity of the mystery villain (?) behind a multiversal mystery is revealed. Continue reading BATMAN, FLASH, BUTTON Finale Reveals DC REBIRTH Mystery Villain
Is the JSA returning with DC Rebirth?
Fans left the comic book shops with more questions on this new comic book day. The free DC Comics June Previews was available at stores with big updates on the DC Comics Rebirth titles launching in June and beyond.
The magazine includes bonus, behind-the-scenes details, including a foreword/introduction from DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer and Rebirth “architect” Geoff Johns, details on his DC Universe: Rebirth Special.
We learned the identity of the new Superwoman and Suicide Squad writer Rob Williams teased one of three new villains joining the roster.
But this cover…teases the Multiverse and Justice Society in the Rebirth?
Continue reading JSA Returns in DC COMICS REBIRTH?
The Multiverse is open on The Flash and a living legend speeds onto The CW series tonight.
Teddy Sears joins the cast as Jay Garrick, The Flash of Earth 2 and the original Speedster of the comics.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) will meet his counterpart from another Earth and he’ll need it for his upcoming battle with Zoom, the big bad of season two.
Sears says he’s reading up on his legendary character by hitting the (comic) books while following the lead from the producers: Continue reading TEDDY SEARS On Creating JAY GARRICK on THE FLASH
The CW unveiled a first look at Teddy Sears as original Flash Jay Garrick on a comic book inspired homage to a classic issue.
Sears in Garrick’s iconic helmet and Grant Gustin are speeding side by side with their comic cover counterparts.
This image is a tribute to The Flash #123, the 1961 issue by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson.
This is the pivotal Flash of Two Worlds issue by writer Gardner Fox which introduced Earth-2 to the DC Universe. Continue reading THE FLASH Reveals First Look at JAY GARRICK
Big changes for The Flash as the Scarlet Speedster will be sporting a new costume for Season Two.
Here’s a look at Grant Gustin in his new look for The Flash courtesy Deadline.
Costume designer Maya Mani also was behind the new costume for Arrow which Stephen Amell shared at Comic Con.
Mani also is behind the costume design for the many heroes of the new spinoff series: DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow, coming in 2016 on The CW. Continue reading THE FLASH New Costume, New Symbol
Two new characters from DC Comics canon hit The Flash season two.
At the “Warner Bros. Television Presents A Night of DC Entertainment” Comic-Con panel producers revealed Teddy Sears (Masters of Sex) will play Jay Garrick this season.
In the comics, Garrick was the very first Flash, and is known for his winged silver helmet. Careful watchers may have glimpsed briefly in the Season One finale.
On The Flash television show, “Jay is a mysterious figure who arrives in Central City to warn Barry Allen and his team at S.T.A.R. Labs of an impending danger that he alone cannot hope to stop.” Continue reading ZOOM, JAY GARRICK on THE FLASH Season Two
It feels appropriate that Earth 2 #3 comes out the same week Anderson Cooper officially came out. Alan Scott is gay. Let’s move on. The creative moves on in a big way with this third chapter.
James Robinson picks up right after last issue’s cliffhanger with Alan Scott becoming the Green Lantern and learning that an evil greater that Darkseid is coming. This Green Lantern is Earth’s champion but not in a cosmic way like Hal Jordan. Alan’s mission is directed from the planet itself.
Gay and organic? This hero would be perfect for my progressive and earth conscious home of Seattle.
Jay Garrick is still not called the Flash yet. Garrick is confronted and tested by Hawkgirl who says fate led her to him. The two soon witness how the planet is under attack.
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Earth is under attack from The Grey of Swamp Thing. Alan Scott is Nature’s champion. The Grey unleashes it’s champion in the final pages.
I’m still not sure how I feel about the death of Sam. We just met him last issue so how could a reader get that invested? I felt Alan didn’t grieve enough for the loss of the man he just proposed to but was that to prove why he was chosen as champion? Sam will always be part of the story as the engagement ring becomes the symbol of Alan’s power.
I loved Nicola Scott’s art. I was surprised that Alan Scott’s costume didn’t play at least little homage to his Silver Age counterpart. I still really love Jay Garrick’s uniform and she draws him using his power. There are two scenes of death of rebirth. Early in the book Scott becomes an Emerald Warrior among the ashes of the disaster. In the final pages the Grey’s champion claws out of the ground. Scott captures both brilliantly.
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Warning – you may not want to read this poist if you haven’t read Earth 2 #1 and #2. You may consider some of my points spoilers.
James Robinson and Nicola Scott destroy and give birth to a new world of heroes in Earth 2. This is part of DC Comics The New 52 Second Wave. I admit – I bought #2 because of the reintroduction of a gay Alan Scott/Green Lantern got my curiosity and now I’m hooked on the future of this parallel world.
The debut issue immediately dropped us on an Earth under siege. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman valiantly struggle against overwhelming odds from Apokolips. These battle scenes are a perfect example of why I believe Warner Brothers should make an epic film about DC’s Holy Trinity against Darkseid instead of full on Justice League movie.
Back to Earth 2 – A world without heroes is rebuilding. Alan Scott is a successful jet setting CEO and Jay Garrick is young guy who just got dumped by his girlfriend reevaluating his life when fate crashes into his pity party.
The mainstream media is talking about the introduction of an openly gay Alan Scott in issue 2 this week. Robinson and Scott show us Alan and his boyfriend and their glamorous life but next issue promises to be where the relationship takes back burner and the action kicks in. Is Scott already the Green Lantern or has this happened yet?
You might be buying issue 2 for the curiosity about Scott but I really enjoyed seeing how Jay Garrick becomes this world’s Flash, test runs his new power to save lives, learns a threat scarier than Darkseid is heading for this world and becomes the prey for a character I’m really excited to see – Hawkgirl!
Mister Terrific blasts from his cancelled solo series into Earth 2 this issue and immediately encounters an enemy who is out to cancel Michael forever.
I’m really impressed with Nicola Scott’s art – especially the war ravaged Trinity and world against a legion of parademons in issue one. The revamped world and new soon to be heroes are clean and crisp and I particularly loved how Scott portrays Jay’s Flash effect and the new costume!
This is a new origin for what I think will be this world’s Justice Society. I praise Robinson and DC Comics for including Alan Scott and the upcoming debut of another GLBT character. Come for the curiosity factor but you’ll stay for the great art and storytelling.
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