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Flashpoint Friday – Flashpoint #1 – Review

You know what’s better than one opinion and one earth? Multiples! Flashpoint is DC comics big summer event, the equivalent of their summer blockbuster movie and since it’s a book that is supposed to change the world of DC comics forever, we’ve taken a look at the first issue and added our thoughts and comments on it for Flashpoint Friday! If you’ve read the first issue we encourage you to leave your thoughts, if not be warned that there will be spoilers!

Flashpoint Friday – New Round Up – Geoff Johns Leaves The Flash

It’s Friday and that means it’s time for DC to dump a ton of Flashpoint news and previews upon the world, but the biggest news is that Geoff Johns will be leaving the Flash series after Flashpoint #5. Johns has had an extensive run on Flash in the past and has brought Barry Allen back to the DC forefront in a big way, but it’s still surprising to see him leave right after the event. Unless a big name creator comes on board you can expect a sales slump almost instantly as history shows us (See Flash and Wonder Woman’s relaunch after Final Crisis).

Fathom Vol 4 #0 – Advanced Review

The world of Fathom is far more complex than simply referring to it as Aquaman as a woman, which is what a lot of people think when they see the late Michael Turner’s creation. It’s a shame then that they are missing out on a very different underwater world filled with technology and superpowers.  Aspen Matthews (the name-shake for the company) used to be just another surfer girl until learning that she was actually tied to the water she loved so much, in a completely different way. She is the combination of two underwater civilizations that don’t get along. Think of the Skrulls and Kree if you need a point of reference.

Crossed: Wish You Were Here Webcomic

Who
loves Avatar Press and their awesome Crossed series? I do, I do!! 
Avatar are set to launch a new weekly webcomic in October, based on
Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows’ Crossed.

Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier (Gutsville, X-Men) and Javier Barreno (Crossed Family Values) will be announced at Phoenix Comic Con and the new website hosting the free weekly Crossed episodes will be at www.crossedcomic.com. The site will also cover Crossed in print, online and in the movies, with commentary from notable types.

Crossed: Wish You Were Here will follow the Freakangels format,
serialised online, collected in trade paperbacks and translated around
the world. The webcomic will be free weekly episodes that are later
collected in print volumes, similar to the FreakAngels model.

Apsen Comics are Now Digital

Shipping in August – Aspen Comics

We’re back again with another bunch of books shipping in August this time from Aspen. They’ll be launching another original series Broken Pieces and continuing the Hit List Agenda in the Executive Assistant Iris-verse so take a look at Aspen’s August offerings.

Rob Liefeld Shares A Look At Infinite #2

Yup it looks like something Rob Liefeld (pronounced Lie’filled and driving from the greek word meaning to be filled with Lies) drew. Still stuck in that early nineties art style with floating feet, huge man muscles and ninjas that for some reason need more than two swords. If you want to know what the project is about check out our announcement for it. The real question I have for this book is a what point does Robert Kirkman just get tired of working with the Image founders? When does he look at them and just yell at them for not making a deadline or producing terrible art like we’re about to show you. You can pick this book up one day when Liefeld finishes it because no one, not even Kirkman will solicit a book that is incomplete from this guy. Why you ask? Because you’ll never see the next issue that’s why. Enjoy ranting enjoy these pages from Infinite #2 coming out from Image Comics.