Remember Back to the Future 2? Yeah, it kind of sucked...but remember when the old man Biff steals the sports book, takes it back in time, and then Marty and Doc end up traveling back to a new world where things are the same but slightly different (like, a black family is now living in Marty's home and Biff is super rich)? That's the story with Flashpoint, DC's big event series. The Flash wakes up in a world that's slightly different. Superman doesn't exist and Batman is kind of evil. While this parallel-world plot has been done before, it's nice that a big event book is finally not just about a group of superheroes banding together to face one big evil threat. That's refreshing. The art is also terrific (Andy Kubert) but the issue isn't anything special. It doesn't do enough to make me care to read #2 or the endless amount of spin-offs (in June there are 21 spin-off issues...yikes). The other problem is that there's 8 pages where a bunch of heroes argue. Boring. & I thought DC was "drawing the line at $2.99?" Why is this book $3.99? So far this is about as good as Marvel's big event series, Fear Itself. Is it just me, or do event books totally suck? **
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