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The FlashpointBatmanhas animate a buff - favorite DC tradition from the 2000s . In a preview forFlashpoint Beyond # 0 , Batman is on the lead of a peachy evil , one running through the Omniverse , and during the course of his investigation , proofreader see a blackboard in Rip Hunter ’s lab — a call out to the DC Comics of the 2000s . The issue is on sale in print and digital April 12 .
In 2011,Flashpointchanged the case of the DC Universe , ultimately take into the New 52 enterprisingness . During the course of the event , readers were care for to an alternate sentiment of the DC Universe , with dark and fantastic reading of the company ’s iconic heroes — such as Batman . In this world , Batman was Thomas Wayne , who after watching his son and married woman gun down in front of him , becomes a dingy and homicidal vigilante . The Flashpoint Batman survivedthe demolition of his humanity and has resurface as a member of the Justice League Incarnate , the multiversal reading of the Justice League . The League Incarnate recently taste their first defeat at the hands of Darkseid and the Great Darkness , and the Flashpoint Batman was seemingly a casualty . Now , DC turn back to that world once again inFlashpoint Beyond # 0 , which run into a six - offspring miniseries , written by Geoff Johns and instance by Eduardo Risso .
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The preview opens with the Earth-0 Batman in Rip Hunter ’s lab . He says nothing , merely moving through the lab , carefully examining it . Among the objects he looks at are Rip Hunter ’s Time Bubble , blood - splosh pictures as well as Hunter ’s notes , displayed on a chalkboard ; Batman also findsRip Hunter’snotebook . Both the chalkboard and the notebook contain deep phrasal idiom . Some of the phrasal idiom read : “ his daughter will return the Justice Society to save it”and “ beware : he ’ll notice his son . Do not interfere . ”The exact import of these phrases is have it away only to Hunter , although they seem to be foreshadowing succeeding events .
Rip Hunter ’s chalkboard , loaded with mysterious phrasal idiom , was a tradition in DC Comics in the mid to late-2000s , first appearing in 2006’s52 # 6 . The chalkboard has made several appearances since and each time contained hint for upcoming DC plot line . That tradition has beenrevived inFlashpoint Beyond . DC has recently let out the macrocosm of the Omniverse , beyond the regular multiverse . It is currently being threatened by the Great Darkness . The battle against the Great Darkness will play out in the pages of the forthcomingDark Crisis , but do any of Rip Hunter ’s deep phrases have any comportment on the event ? The blackboard also references events presently unfolding in the pages ofDeathstroke , Inc;it also cite the forthcomingDeath of the Justice Leaguestory — but what do the other phrases mean ?
Batmanmust project out the answers to these question if he and the rest are to save the Omniverse . Any answers will play out across the DC Universe for the end of 2022 , in the pages ofFlashpoint BeyondandDark Crisis . Before these events hit , however , DC has provided readers with clues and revives a fan - favourite tradition from the 2000s in the process .
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