If you’ve had anything to do with any DC Comics property during the last eight years or so—including comics, video games and the CW shows—you’ve heard about Flashpoint. I think Flashpoint Batman was offered as an alternate skin in one of the Arkham games (probably Arkham Knight), and I really didn’t know what that […]
Read more "Flashpoint, by Geoff Johns & Andy Kubert — a comic book review"I haven’t been watching Arrow this season, except for this year’s crossover event, but I’m still a steady viewer of The Flash and Supergirl. For whatever reasons, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow was left out of the crossover this year. Perhaps that series is on shaky ground, renewal-wise: I really don’t know. I stopped watching the […]
Read more "DC Comics on The CW: Elseworlds Crossover Event (2018)"Maybe time travel was always the bane of Barry Allen’s existence. I remember a lot of time travel stories from the comic books when I was a kid, back when the Flash had to use a treadmill to time travel and Carmine Infantino was the quintessential Flash artist. Maybe some of the stories involved Barry […]
Read more "The Flash: Season Five Premiere Episode “Nora” — a review"In a television season in which I find myself thinking that I might be too critical of everything that I’m watching (as if I were a true critic: Egads!), I find that I have truly enjoyed Season 4 of The Flash. The whole Savitar thing was a misstep for me, I’ll admit. So, it was […]
Read more "The Flash: Season 4 – review"Arrow may have been the first DC Comics series on the CW, the progenitor of the Arrowverse (or Berlantiverse, if you prefer), but, for me, The Flash was the first of these shows to truly capture the feel of the DC comics I read when I was a child. There is a sense of […]
Read more "Flash: Season 4 Midseason Review [Spoilers]"Let’s all just admit it. We knew Barry Allen would be back in Central City after his moment of self-sacrifice at the end of Season 3, when he went into the Speed Force to save the universe, or somesuch thing. We even suspected that he would be back by the first episode of the […]
Read more "The Flash Season 4 premiere: Ep. 4.1 “The Flash Reborn” — a review"