Flashpoint

Here are some pics from the comic Flashpoint. The writer is Geoff Johns and the artist is Andy Kubert. The animated movie Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is based on this limited comic series. In my humble opinion, this actually is one of the greatest flash stories written, if not, one of the best DC stories written.

The story deals with alternate timelines. Anyone who knows the tiniest details about the flash knows that his mother was killed when he was just a child. He tried to revert that and the consequences are the worst as that they can be.

in this picture, we can see all of the flashes that have ever existed. including, jay garrick, wally west the kid flash and more. but, the flashpoint is actually focused on barry allen. for a period of time, he was willing to screw over the entire planet just to save his mother. most of the readers can empathize with the actions taken by him.

in this picture we can see Barry Allen running real fast and in the background, we can see batman, aquaman, cyborg etc. the heroes in the background are actually from this alternate timeline and nothing is actually going right in this timeline. there is actually a huge war that has been going on in this world in between the atlantians being led by aquaman and the amazonians being led by wonder woman. it seems like that these two have a really complicated history between each other and on thing led to another, now there is a fully fledged war.

in this picture we can see that Barry is running really fast and we can see that he is running so fast that he is actually starting to run on water. to a person that has not read the flashpoint but knows about the powers of flash, this would seem like a very common thing. but, in the alternate universe where everything is messed up, barry allen did not actually has any kinds of super powers. he was just a police detective. so, this is the time when he ran so fast for the first time in this timeline.

here we can see batman of this timeline. what can be the twist about batman in this timeline you might ask? well, he is not actually bruce wayne. he is the father of bruce wayne, thomas wayne. in the alleyway, bruce wayne was the one that got shot by joe chill and died. the twister of this timeline is that the death of their child led thomas wayne to go on and become batman fighting crime. but, the same shock led martha wayne to go absolutely crazy and made her turn into the joker of the timeline and cause havoc.

here we can see that cyborg is talking to batman about something and there are all other heroes of the timeline gathered behind him. yes, you read it tit, heroes. black mask and captain cold are heroes in this timeline. in the background, if you look closely, you will se that hal jordan is not the green lanter of this timeline and the original green lanterns spaceship never crashed and hal jordan remained a pilot. Spoiler alert: Hal Jordan dies in a plane crash and the death of hal pushes barry to the edge.it seems like every single one of them respect batman and they will do everything batman will tell them.

Another spoiler: almost everyone in this timeline dies and Barry just leaves this timeline in the nick of time with a message from Thomas Wayne to Bruce Wayne.