After months of intrigue from fans , the first large hint as to just what the hell is going on with Watchmen ’s integration into the DC world are tardily being revealed in a unexampled storyline stretching across the pages of Batman and The Flash . This calendar week ’s entry did n’t propose much in the way of major Revelation of Saint John the Divine , but it did have one hell of a tress .
Today ’s Flash # 21 — by Joshua Williamson , Howard Porter , Hi - Fi , and Steve Wands — picks up correct wherelast hebdomad ’s issue of Batmanleft off : with Barry Allen arriving at the Batcave to find the bloodied , unconscious body of Batman and the smoking husk of his greatest foe , Eobard Thawne , lying on the floor ( with the Comedian ’s smile button nowhere in sight ) .
While Bruce seek to recoup from his unholy fight with Reverse - Flash and Barry catalogue the conniption of his nemesis ’ death , the button itself seems like a remote priority for the two detective . The mystery behind it , though , continue to mill around , as does Thawne ’s attraction to the Button , as Barry break one very intriguing point of discussion : he ’s beginning to get visions about a helmet , and not just any helmet …
Barry ’s visions seem to so far be herald more elements from the pre - Flashpoint cosmos making a return , if Thawne is anything to go by . Could the Golden Age Flash , Jay Garrick — or even just his classic Golden Age helmet — be next ?
We do n’t get much metre to ponder , though , as Barry re - introduces another conversant Flash artifact not pick up in a very foresightful metre . Revealing that the same radiation the clit was emanating was also all over Thawne ’s corpse when he buy the farm — indicating that whoever killed him add up from the same shoes the button did , continuing to imply Dr. Manhattan slay Thawne — Barry settle there ’s only one direction to track the radiation :
The cosmic treadmill , have its first visual aspect in quite some fourth dimension . photoflash — conjoin by Batman , who ’s dragged his trouble soundbox to fall out Flash , because he ’s Batman and that ’s how he roll — spark the machine and the pair go fly through fourth dimension and space , witness realities weirdly familiar to their own , but ultimately the pair find themselves flung to the Batcave . At first , Bruce thinks they ’ve landed back in time a bit , to his earliest twenty-four hour period as the Dark Knight , but the couple quickly chance on that they ’re not back in time , because they meet the Cave ’s occupant :
Thomas Wayne , the Batman of the Flashpoint universe , created when Barry ’s attempted to pluck the timeline , and which finally get about the New 52 reboot . Batman and Flash are , for now , trapped in a reality from before the refreshment of their own : and most importantly , Bruce Wayne has been reunify with the father he never really got to know .
But why were they brought to Flashpoint if they were following the radiation of the Comedian ’s button ? Could Dr. Manhattan ’s black design for the DC population have start there ? And more importantly , why did he start there if he did ? There ’s still a mode to go before we have our heads enwrap around this situation , but for now , the Flash and Batman have catch another mystery to solve : how are they go to get back home ?
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