Flashpoint [Paperback]

Not a dream, not an imaginary story, not an elseworld. This is Flash Fact: When Barry Allen wakes at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. Family is alive, loved ones are strangers, and close friends are different, gone or worse. It's a world on the brink of a cataclysmic war—but where are Earth's Greatest Heroes to stop it? It's a place where America's last hope is Cyborg, who hopes to gather the forces of The Outsider, The Secret 7, Shazam!, Citizen Cold and other new and familiar-yetaltered faces! It's a world that could be running out of time, if The Flash can't find the villain who altered the time line!“A soaring, if radical, tale that uses superheroes in ways that may surprise both first-time readers and long-time fans.”—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
“Ambitious.”—USA TODAY
 
“Intriguing.” –AIN’T IT COOL NEWS
 
“Heroic comic-book art at its finest.”--ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

The most interesting comic event of the summer --COMPLEX MAGAZINEGeoff Johns, a Detroit native, brings a Hollywood sense of story-telling to comics. After working as an assistant to Richard Donner (director ofLethal Weapon,Supermanand many other great films), Geoff has brought his considerable writing talent to comics. For DC he has writtenStars and S.T.R.I.P.E.S.,The Flash, the enormously popularJSAwith David Goyer, helped revitalizeHawkmanwith James Robinson and the comics eventBlackest Night.CA