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FLASHPOINT THE REVERSE FLASH #1

FLASH FACT! He’s more powerful than ever…

Written by SCOTT KOLINS
Art by JOEL GOMEZ
Cover by ARDIAN SYAF and VICENTE CIFUENTES

Price: $2.99
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  1. Avatar photo shiveringking8 says:
    June 20, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    Will this be the tie-in that might finally shed some light on what’s going on in this super-interesting Flashpoint History?  Hope so, but picking it up regardless, love Reverse Flash!
    What does anybody know about Kolins or Gomez?  I’m not familiar with them.

  2. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    June 20, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    @shiveringking8  – Kolins is the longtime Flash artist, now doing writing.

    Here is his deviant art page:

    http://joelgomez.deviantart.com/

  3. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    June 20, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    Joel Gomez

  4. MisterJ says:
    June 20, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    Kinda curious as to why this isn’t in the main title.  If it is a one-shot, I guess I understand how it could be outside the main.

  5. Avatar photo Minion says:
    June 20, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    I think I’ll give it a shot.

  6. Avatar photo onetone says:
    June 20, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    I wanted to pick this up but not a fan of the art.

  7. Avatar photo Chrisflinchbaugh says:
    June 20, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    There was no doubt in my mind I would get this being a fan of the Flash and very interested in any backstory to how Reverse Flash pulled this thing off. However, I am shocked by the quality of the art. Perhaps it is intentionally awkward and angular to match the character and story?

  8. Avatar photo SteenAR says:
    June 20, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    This is really weird art. Some of it I love, some of it is just hideous. I’ll still pick this up for the story. But wow… not sure how to feel about it. 

  9. Avatar photo Noto says:
    June 20, 2011 at 11:27 pm

    I’m thinking this is what was originally to be The Flash #13.

  10. Avatar photo SteenAR says:
    June 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    I’m suprised so many people are pulling this… This was a very iffy book for me. 

  11. MisterJ says:
    June 21, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    @SteenAR  Well, its just a one-shot, so no big committment can make people more likely to take a chance.  At least that is one theory.

  12. Avatar photo SteenAR says:
    June 21, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    @MisterJ  good point. and I didn’t really think that this probably seems like the tie-in that would explain the most about what caused the whole situation.  

  13. Avatar photo ctrosejr says:
    June 22, 2011 at 10:56 am

    @Noto  I think you’re probably right about this being Flash #13

  14. Avatar photo glunders says:
    June 22, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    This… Was not as expected. Just a rehash of the Reverse Flash’s background — didn’t really even seem to have anything to do with Flashpoint. Not bad, despite that, but anyone who’s read Rebirth or any of the recent stuff about Thawne can definitely skip this.

  15. Avatar photo Impossibilly says:
    June 22, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    @glunders I had the same reaction thumbing through it in the store and left it on the shelf.

  16. Avatar photo CaptainSweatpants says:
    June 22, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    Not being a hardcore Flash fan this, for me, was worth the $2.99 but the art was bad. Just bad.

  17. Avatar photo CrimsonBlur says:
    June 22, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    It both kind of repeats some of the Reverse Flashes (Zoom’s) past with Barry Allen in a nutshell, while also going a little more in depth to how he made Barry alone when he was a kid by makeing freinds cease to exsist, and killing off his mother. Being a hardcore fan of the Flash I really loved this issue, and I like the art, it seems to be a common style when someone makes a comic focusing on Zoom. All in all it doesnt have much to do with flashpoint, that we know of anyway, but its still important if you want to understand both Zoom and Barry.

  18. Avatar photo heylook says:
    June 22, 2011 at 7:15 pm

    ok story. Gomez’s art was fun. The coloring was reminiscent of both Kolins and Manapual’s work on The Flash but then it looked like a animated cartoon style too. Was hoping for more from this book though

  19. Avatar photo Ntpmcrtp says:
    June 22, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    I coulda sworn this was originally a one-shot, but now its a 3 parter? And the book concludes with “THE END” so I wonder if it was extended at the last minute to capitalize on Flashpoint. Hopefully the next issue will be less of a history re-tread, and more of how Zoom changed history.

  20. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    June 22, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    I enjoyed this book. The art was just like Kollin’s.

  21. Rustyautoparts says:
    June 22, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    @Ntpmcrtp  It was probably just a lettering mistake. There haven’t been any extra issues solicited.

  22. Avatar photo ResurrectionFlan says:
    June 22, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    @ctrosejr  It was EXACTLY like that flash issue where we had his origin in December. So weird to rehash it. 

  23. Avatar photo Franktiger says:
    June 23, 2011 at 12:54 am

    Almost passed on this, but glad I got it, the art grew on me, very Kollins-esque, and thought it was a great read.

  24. Avatar photo SteenAR says:
    June 23, 2011 at 2:28 am

    I liked the art more than I expected but the story was a huge let down. Glad this was just a single issue. 

  25. MisterJ says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:43 am

    @SteenAR  Yeah, that is how I felt about it too.  I went in expecting the opposite, too.

  26. Avatar photo bangster1127 says:
    June 23, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    was excited about this book till i saw the art man does it suck monkey you know what.

  27. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    June 23, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    @bangster1127  – art isnt too bad actually. If you like Scott Kollins.

  28. Avatar photo TexasZombie99 says:
    June 24, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    @ResurrectionFlan  Yeah this was an absolute waste of time if you read the last Flash series, no new information here.  Art was craptastic, I really throught this was Kolins until I found out it was someone else copying Kolins style…sheesh.  It’s like when the original band is bad enough and then you go to a bar and unfortunately find out there is a cover band too.

  29. Avatar photo TheFlashr says:
    June 26, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    PLease stay away from this book, nothing to do with Flashpoint. Nothing new or original, disappointing.

  30. Avatar photo Minion says:
    June 26, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    Sigh, all of the flashpoint books are disappointing me today.

  31. Avatar photo mgriffith says:
    July 3, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    The art drove me running from this book, almost as if I had the speedforce myself!

    I don’t like to be negative about comics and creators, but this art looks very rushed and really not worthy of a DC title.

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