Flashpoint: Tie-ins & Creative teams

[BobBretall]

That is funny. I think Marvel is doing the same thing lately with Fear Itself and the X-Men books.

I do think it is too early to judge either way. However, I tend to be more excited for an event done by Geoff Johns than an event done by any other person.

I don't read the X-Men books, and Fear itself does not have 15 associated minis (yet...), so there's a bit of a difference.

On the Flashpoint event itself, I'm totally bought into the main series by Geoff Johns. I'm just saying I am not "sold" on pre-ordering 15 minis, and further, the info I have seen has not, in me, generated a huge amount of excitement around those minis.

Main series. Yes - excited.

15 minis. Mostly ambivalent, I need to see more to get me excited.

YMMV

[HassanT]

That is funny. I think Marvel is doing the same thing lately with Fear Itself and the X-Men books.

I do think it is too early to judge either way. However, I tend to be more excited for an event done by Geoff Johns than an event done by any other person.

I don't read the X-Men books, and Fear itself does not have 15 associated minis (yet...), so there's a bit of a difference.

On the Flashpoint event itself, I'm totally bought into the main series by Geoff Johns. I'm just saying I am not "sold" on pre-ordering 15 minis, and further, the info I have seen has not, in me, generated a huge amount of excitement around those minis.

Main series. Yes - excited.

15 minis. Mostly ambivalent, I need to see more to get me excited.

YMMV

That's fair. My comment is on the Marvel teasers that really don't get me too excited anymore.

[BobBretall]

That's fair. My comment is on the Marvel teasers that really don't get me too excited anymore.

I can't argue with you there. I still have no concrete idea what Fear Itself is going to be about.

[spid]

Outside of the Batman book none of those other books sound all that interesting to me, and even the Batman book only has me slightly interested.

[BobBretall]

Outside of the Batman book none of those other books sound all that interesting to me, and even the Batman book only has me slightly interested.

Sounds like you're another person who does not have their excitement level amped up by DC's "teaser-heavy" crypto-marketing style.

If I saw a few pages from these books and a more detailed (than 1 sentence) premise, I might have a different feeling.

I can see that DC wants to drive excitement by starting promotion early, and that works with a certain segment of the fan base. For others (like me) it starts me off with a negative impression that I now have to be brought back up from. I hope (for DC's sake) that a lot more people fall into the excited category than the turned-off category.

[stardog]

I can see that DC wants to drive excitement by starting promotion early, and that works with a certain segment of the fan base. For others (like me) it starts me off with a negative impression that I now have to be brought back up from. I hope (for DC's sake) that a lot more people fall into the excited category than the turned-off category.

In this economy in particular, they're taking a big chance. I was thinking about the Blackest Night tie-ins and there weren't as many and you basically knew what you were getting: Blackest Night Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans and JSA (I think that was all the minis). I forget all of the writers, but the artists were all top names pretty much. Eddie Barrows did Superman and JSA, Nicola Scott did Wonder Woman, Ed Benes did the Teen Titans.

[spid]

Outside of the Batman book none of those other books sound all that interesting to me, and even the Batman book only has me slightly interested.

Sounds like you're another person who does not have their excitement level amped up by DC's "teaser-heavy" crypto-marketing style.

If I saw a few pages from these books and a more detailed (than 1 sentence) premise, I might have a different feeling.

I can see that DC wants to drive excitement by starting promotion early, and that works with a certain segment of the fan base. For others (like me) it starts me off with a negative impression that I now have to be brought back up from. I hope (for DC's sake) that a lot more people fall into the excited category than the turned-off category.

Preview pages would certainly help the overall cause. I will say I did like the first couple of What If scenarios they through out there. However, if these books are the payoff then I am not all that interested.

[ctowner1]

http://www.ifanboy.com/content/articles ... tive_Teams

FLASHPOINT: BATMAN, KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Art: Eduardo Risso
* Bruce Wayne running a casino, Azzarello/Risso have me sold on this one.

I must say, other than the Batman one by Azzarello/Risso, I'm not particularly excited by any of these. It seems like DC is giving a LOT of this over to relatively new talent. That could be a good thing, or it could be not-so-good.

What it does NOT do is give me the confidence to pre-order any of this stuff (other than the Batman by Azzarello) unless DCBS has it at a BIG discount.

Given sales lately, these creative teams do not sound like something that will cause most of these books to break 20k (with the exception of the Azz/Risso Batman)

That's my view as well - the Batman one is the only one I'll order.

will this Event cross over into regular monthly titles? Or will it be exclusively Flashpoint, Flash & the minis? Or a bunch of other DC books, as well?

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[BobBretall]

New mini creative team announced, I'm a big fan of Gene Ha's art, so this one is a possible "buy":

FLASHPOINT: PROJECT SUPERMAN #1
Plot by: Scott Snyder
Script: Lowell Francis
Art: Gene Ha
Tag line: "They Experimented on him in a Lab For Years!"

7!!! more are supposed to be announced throughout the day, I'll post them here as they come out.

Update #1:

FLASHPOINT: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN #1
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Art: Ibraim Roberson
Tag line: "They Can’t Survive Unless they Find Their Maker!"

Update #2:

FLASHPOINT: KID FLASH LOST STARRING BART ALLEN #1
Writer: Sterling Gates
Art: Oliver Nome
Tag line: "Where is he? Or should we say when?"

Update #3

FLASHPOINT: WONDER WOMAN AND THE FURIES #1
Writer: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art: Scott Clark and David Beaty
Tag line: "If she can’t save the world – no one will!"

FINALLY! Writing & art team where I have heard of & love both!! I'll definitely be getting this one. Friend of the show Dave Beaty on inks!

Update #4

FLASHPOINT: LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #1
Writer: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art: Eddy Nunez
Tag line: "She is ready to reveal the Amazons’ secret!"

Update #5

FLASHPOINT: ABIN SUR – THE GREEN LANTERN #1
Writer: Adam Schlagman
Art: Felipe Massafera
Tag line: He survived the crash!

Update #6

FLASHPOINT: THE OUTSIDER #1
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Javi Fernandez
Tag line: "He won’t join the war! (It could dirty his new suit)"

Update #7

FLASHPOINT: SECRET SEVEN #1
Writer Peter Milligan
Art: George Perez and Scott Koblish
Tag line: "One among them will betray them all!"

Wow! George Perez art! Saving the best for last.....

[stardog]

While I was critical of DC last week, I have to give it to them this week. This round of books really interests me. Scott Snyder and Gene Ha - wow! I'm definitely getting Superman, Wonder Woman and Lois Lane. I'm a little unsure about Kid Flash as I'm not familiar with the artist, but I do want to support anything written by Sterling Gates so I'll probably get it. The Frankenstein book will probably be excellent too...

The big question remains - when will these be released (not all in the same month, I hope) and will at least some of the regular titles be going on hiatus? That would definitely help.

[BobBretall]

While I was critical of DC last week, I have to give it to them this week. This round of books really interests me.

I agree that this week's batch seems on the whole more compelling than what I saw last week.

[BobBretall]

Flashpoint One Shots.....I'm firmly in the "I don't really care" camp on all of these....

FLASHPOINT: GRODD OF WAR #1
Writer: Sean Ryan
Art: Ig Guara
Tag Line: "Africa belongs to him!"

FLASHPOINT: REVERSE FLASH #1
Writer: Scott Kolins
Art: Joel Gomez
Tag Line: "He's more powerful than ever!"

FLASHPOINT: GREEN ARROW INDUSTRIES #1
Writer: Pornsak Pichetshote
Art: Mark Castiello
Tag Line: "He makes money from war!"

FLASHPOINT: THE CANTERBURY CRICKET #1
Cover: Rags Morales
Writer: Mike Carlin
Art: Rags Morales
Tag Line: "His power is his curse!"

What the hell is this??!!!

[HassanT]

I am going to be all over this.

[spid]

Hmm, given the sheer number of these titles I would rather just buy a trade that contains all of these titles. The problem is I know Marvel would put out a decent trade package for this stuff. I have found DC so hit and miss with their trades that is hard for me to have faith.

[Paul Nolan]

I see DC are taking it easy with Flashpoint tie-ins in June

Surely ordering these will be a nightmare for comic shops...


FLASHPOINT #2
BOOSTER GOLD #45
FLASHPOINT: BATMAN – KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE #1
FLASHPOINT: SECRET SEVEN #1
FLASHPOINT: ABIN SUR – THE GREEN LANTERN #1
FLASHPOINT: THE WORLD OF FLASHPOINT #1
FLASHPOINT: EMPEROR AQUAMAN #1
FLASHPOINT: DEATHSTROKE AND THE CURSE OF THE RAVAGER #1
FLASHPOINT: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN #1
FLASHPOINT: CITIZEN COLD #1
FLASHPOINT: WONDER WOMAN AND THE FURIES #1
FLASHPOINT: DEADMAN AND THE FLYING GRAYSONS #1
FLASHPOINT: LEGION OF DOOM STARRING HEATWAVE #1
FLASHPOINT: LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #1
FLASHPOINT: THE OUTSIDER #1
FLASHPOINT: KID FLASH LOST STARRING BART ALLEN #1
FLASHPOINT: PROJECT SUPERMAN #1
FLASHPOINT: HAL JORDAN #1
FLASHPOINT: GRODD OF WAR #1
FLASHPOINT: REVERSE FLASH #1
FLASHPOINT: GREEN ARROW INDUSTRIES #1
FLASHPOINT: THE CANTERBURY CRICKET #1