#flashpoint beyond

[dailydccomics]

Flash vs Reverse Flash by Dan Mora

[morgangalaxy43]

Thomas and Martha having Harvey Dent’s son as their Robin in the Flashpoint universe isn’t talked about enough

[balu8]

Ivan Reis

Flashpoint Beyond #2

DC

[marthajo]

/=Martha. Martha please.

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Flashpoint Beyond #1

[chess-blackmyre]

[nightwings-blue]

STOP THE PRESSES THOMAS WAYNE'S BATMAN HAS A ROBIN AND IT'S HARVEY DENT'S SON??

why am i just now learning about this. i need to learn everything i can about this right now.

[nfcomics]

FLASHPOINT BEYOND no.1 (of 6) • cover art • Xermanico [May 2022]

Batman’s hunt for the Clockwork Killer brings him to Europe and face to face with the mad king, Aquaman. On the eve of Aquaman’s sinking of London, Batman infiltrates his stronghold and goes on the warpath for answers. Nothing matters to Batman, whose world is already dead, but if he can track down the Clockwork Killer, Thomas can save his son’s world and put everything back together again.

(W) Geoff Johns, Jeremy Adams, Tim Sheridan (A/CA) Xermanico

[theofficialdailyplanet]

love that thomas has not only been in the trenches fhe Whole Time but also so desperately loves his family that he goes crazy with it. dude literally kidnapped barry - his worlds barry who never became the flash - to try and reset the timeline again. of course barry had no idea what hes talking abt. so thomas goes reconducting the experiment a third time and just deep fries his ass

and then just moves on

[moonbasetycho]

[redcandieddust]

If batjokes not destined not fate then why this?

This is what you want too, isn’t it, Thomas? To turn our lives into a bad dream… to erase our painful existence of grief and emptiness… to end it all.

Flashpoint Beyond (2022) #6

[dispatchdcu]

The New Golden Age: Special Edition #1 Preview

The New Golden Age: Special Edition #1 Preview #thenewgoldenage #goldenage #riphunter #timemasters #flashpoint #flashpointbeyond #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #news #DCEU #dcuuniverse #art #info #NCBD #Amazon #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #flash #theflash #professorzoom #flashfacts

The New Golden Age: Special Edition #1 Preview:  From the Justice Society of America to the Legion of Super-Heroes, The New Golden Age will unlock DC’s epic and secret-ridden history of heroism, launching a new group of titles set firmly in the DC Universe. From the 1940s to the 3040s, heroes take on the great evils of their time. But in the aftermath of Flashpoint Beyond, those heroes and…

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Flashpoint Beyond #1

[heretolurkbutalasitstaken]

I have a guide if you need help. Two, even.

What can you tell me about the Hero Of the Beach, more commonly known as Flex Mentallo? And by extension the others like him, like the Fact for example.

Now. I am gonna say some stuff. And everyone is just going to have to accept that stuff that I say. Because it true, and it attested, and its really, REALLY weird as just about anything having to do with the Doom Patrol is after their resurrection if you start scoping out the details. This one could turn your head into Klein Bottle if you let it so I'm just gonna deliver the down low and we're all gonna be cool about it ok? Ok.

(An old comic book advertisement, showing Flex Mentallo and his "Book of Muscle Mystery") Flex Mentallo originally wasn't real, he originally was barely a character. Created as an ad campaign in the back of comic books from the 1960s to hawk a cheap book of bodybuilding "secrets" along the lines of the iconic Charles Atlas ads from around the same time. The ads weren't well remembered because of their sketchy nature, they were a knockoff of a quickly discredited idea and the very unclear nature of the ad's origin means that a lot of its real world details are lost in the shuffle. UNTIL, those ads were seen by a young boy named Wally Sage (yes, the rockstar) who was inspired by them, Mentallo becoming an artistic muse for young Sage even long after the original ads were out of print. The 'problem' is that Wally Sage was unknowingly a VERY powerful metahuman with the ability to bring his unconscious muses to life. The rest of the beings that surrounded Mentallo, like The Fact as you mentioned, were also hazy remembrances of old comic book ads brought to life by Sage's abilities. No one can say for sure where or when Mentallo popped into existence as a three dimensional being as real as you or me only that it DID happen. Mentallo was then captured by a group called the Men from NOWHERE. The Men from NOWHERE are an organization who shows up in the margins of history but is impossible to pin down, they seemed to be some kind of post war attempt to return the world to "normalcy" via information control and even slight reality alteration. Their mandate was of course shattered when the resurgence of superheroes brought the extranormal into undeniable and daily reality, and their remnants have been thoroughly dismantled through clashes with superheroes like the Doom Patrol. Mentallo was freed from their control and ever since then has existed in an inexplicable spot. He seems to dip into and out of objective reality at random intervals, battling metaphysical and avant garde threats on the margins of logical reality, a task he has more than once roped the Doom Patrol into. Some theories posit that he exists, in full or in part, as a being of what some scholars have proposed calling "The Unhuman Multiverse" connecting him to artifacts like the H-Dial but ALL of that is VERY controversial and VERY cutting edge scholarship and I am in no way certain I understand it. The basic idea is that our "observable multiverse" might only be one infinite facet of an even more infinite system of worlds in which even the notions of physics, space time and observable reality break down past our direct observations. That the vast, vast majority of the multiverse might be made up of realities where some basic facet of our 3 Dimensional existence doesn't apply. In this case Mentallo may exist in a "world" in which fiction is "real" and reality is "false" though of course the obvious insanity of that statement makes it clear that what we're proposing is an idea that we can't actually express in our universe which is basically what the theory proposes. Mentallo and his fellows were brought into our observable reality and now are either transported between them by some outside factor, can transport themselves at will or exist in both spaces simultaneously SOMEHOW because we are reaching the parts of multiversal metaphysics were the difference between math and philosophy is SEMANTIC. For now, he's a really hot guy in a leopard speedo who sometimes pops in to borrow our weirdos for adventures I am SURE are important in a way that would make a lot of sense if you were high, falling asleep, or both.

[necrotic-nephilim]

For the ask game: A Damian who never got the sex talk or a consent talk from Bruce (both bc he assumed that Dick, son-wife extraordinaire, would take care of that and bc he thought that Damian would be ace or celibate or something) and so in his teens after only learning about sex from the internet he just becomes like, wildly inappropriate about his crushes, including unfortunately his older siblings, especially Dick, Tim and Cass

This includes not just the bat-typical stalking online and irl, but also making comments on their bodies, flirting excessively, and one notable time, masturbating in the living room of Dick’s apartment

Everyone is torn on how to address it, if they should be saying anything at all, I mean, he’s just going through puberty, it’s just a phase right?

for the ask game!

i LOVE it when Damian has like. zero concept of how relationships work and no one thinks to talk to him about it, leading to wildly inappropriate behavior. it's my fave flavor for any Damian ship.

obviously, his first crush is Dick. and because Damian has had such little interaction with healthy romantic relationships, he doesn't even *realize* that's what he's feeling. in concept, he understands sex. but he has a very clinical definition of it, viewing it as coupling to produce an heir. (100% influenced by Ra's) so sex as a pleasurable thing, as something driven by romantic interest, that's foreign to him. he refuses to show weakness and he needs to be hyper-independent, so he falls down a google rabbit hole. i love the idea of Damian accidentally stumbling into like, forums and subreddits based on what he googles that are for people with incestual fantasies and it ends up giving him the WILDLY wrong idea about what's normal. he makes his own account and becomes mildly chronically online about it. at first, it's just a safe outlet for him to vent about his feelings. bc deep down Damian *does* know this is a little wrong and weird, he knows Dick doesn't exactly reciprocate and he understands there's a difference between familial and romantic love. but the more Damian is reading other stories online, the bolder he gets. and he starts getting more open about his attraction.

not only does he get more open about it, but his attraction spreads to Cass and Tim. for Cass, it makes sense. they grew up similarly, if anyone understands the guilt of being raised to be an assassin and now trying to atone for it, it's her. Damian respects her raw ability and naturally it turns into a crush. for Tim, it's harder to explain. he hates Tim with his whole being, doesn't see Tim as his brother. it starts as sexual attraction first, with Tim. for Dick and Cass it was romantic first, but not Tim. watching Tim train shirtless, Damian almost hits himself in the face with the workout equipment he's using. since he's never considered Tim a brother, he's never considered Tim seriously when he's thinking about incestual feelings. it startles him to be attracted to Tim too. honestly? fun concept that Damian gets so in his head with an incest kink that he finally accepts Tim as a brother to him because he's attracted to Tim, therefore this must mean that some part of Damian views him as a brother because Damian has just. entangled those feelings internally.

it's when Damian is attracted to them as well, that they all start to notice. Cass notices first, and she asks Tim about it, since she can tell Damian's feelings are toward Tim and Dick as well. they have a conversation about it and ultimately decide they can't change Damian's feelings, and they don't want to embarrass him about it because he's young and going through puberty. Tim had his own childhood crush on Dick, it happens, he really gets it. they loop Dick in, who is absolutely thrown by the concept. for a while Dick doesn't believe them. he's convinced they're reading into things. until Damian starts getting more bold. going from openly staring that could be interpreted a lot fo ways to excess compliments and flirting. Dick's used to comments about his body, they slide off easily. but when Damian very loudly makes a comment about Tim or Cass' body, Dick balks. he tries to. carefully tell Damian that there are boundaries to certain relationships and he needs to be more respectful. Damian doesn't take it seriously because Dick won't address it head-on and is dancing around the topic. Damian either doesn't think Dick is serious, or he thinks Dick doesn't understand the depth of his emotion outside of sexual desire. so he starts trying to be more romantic. flirting, gifts and gestures. it's very sweet and almost childlike, how hard Damian is trying. Cass thinks it's cute and doesn't mind it. Dick is trying carefully to let Damian down gently. and Tim is just baffled, not really sure what to do with the *very* nice new bo staff Damian got him that's reinforced and admittedly, very well balanced.

Damian gets bolder. his touch lingers, his comments get more sexual. and of course, the breaking point: he jerks off in Dick's living room. he does it when Dick is busy in another room, taking a shower. Dick comes in just as Damian reaches completion, gripping one of the throw pillows on Dick's couch. Dick leaves the room, pretends he didn't see anything and gives Damian the chance to clean himself up. but when he comes in the room, they both know that Dick knows. Dick decides he has to be more firm with his boundaries. he sits down and tells Damian it's okay to have a crush, but this is not okay. Dick repeatedly calls it "puberty" and a "phase", and Damian gets more caught up on Dick denying the realness of his feelings than the rejection. he doubles down, because he perceives the issue as Dick just not understanding how real Damian's feelings are. this isn't some silly teenage phase to Damian, he knows his feelings. obviously, the issue must be that Dick, Tim, and Cass don't understand that. so he does his best to act more like an adult. he's far more reasonable on patrol, he doesn't pick fights, he's independent. all the issues Dick has been having with training Damian suddenly vanish and well. Dick knows why, but he has to admit, it is far easier to work with Damian like this. at this point, Tim just finds the whole thing funny. Cass doesn't enjoy the sexualized comments about her body, she's always been hyperaware of how others will oversexualize her, but she still sees Damian as a young kid and doesn't lash out at him over it. she's dealt with far worse, and she doesn't want to make him feel bad about a crush.

if i were writing this, i think it'd be fun if Damian's feels do eventually fade. he stops going online so much and he gets other things to focus on trying to be a good vigilante and soon his efforts aren't about his feelings, he's just genuinely focused on himself. he grows back and Dick, Tim, and Cass breathe a sigh of relief about it really just being some phase. that is, of course, until someone new joins the Batfam and the cycle starts again. maybe it's Duke, maybe it's someone else like Terry. but at the end of the day, Damian's incest kink wins out and maybe this time, he actually succeeds. he gets his new person of affection to reciprocate with all of the attention he gives them and Dick just has to watch from the background, facepalming. bc at the end of the day, Damian will always get what he wants, sooner or later.