Francis Manupal and Brian Buccelatto are leaving The Flash after issue 25 in November.
The team confirmed the news in a joint statement on Buccelatto’s site.
“We were REALLY honored to have the opportunity to usher Barry, Iris, Patty, Lenny, Forrest and the entire Flash universe into the New 52. We’ve lived and breathed Barry and are sorely gonna miss him, but after 3 years and over 30 issues (annuals, zero, Villains Month), we felt it was time to Move Forward and take on a new creative challenge.
Francis and I will be moving on to a NEW regular DC series that will hit stores in MARCH 2014. We can’t tell you what the series is (yet), but we are super excited about this new sandbox we get to play in!
We want to thank everyone who was involved in helping us shape Barry’s world for the last three years. Brian Cunningham, Darren Shan, Mat Idelson, Wil Moss, Geoff Johns, Chris Conroy, Harvey Richards, Marcus To, Marcio Takara, Sam Basri, Scott Hepburn, Ian Herring, Chris Batista, Patrick Zircher and countless others…
A HUGE thanks to the powers that be at DC, for taking a chance on two “new” writers and giving us the room to grow.
We love Barry… We’ll miss Barry… and we look forward to seeing what the future has in store for him. But this isn’t goodbye. Not YET. Because of the way solicitations work, we have to announce this now… but don’t forget to pick up issue our Villains Month Books, and #24 and #25! Francis and I still have some story to tell before we hand Barry off…
One last THANKS to all the Flash fans out there that gave Francis and I an honest chance and stuck around for the ride. You know who you are. You guys make this job worth all the crazy deadlines and sleepless nights! Thanks again… we can’t wait to tell you what’s next!”
The team’s final issue with be a Batman Zero Year tie-in story.
Comic Book Resources confirmed Christos Gage is writing issue 26 only.
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