| Posted: 03 June 2012 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | 6
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Vinny, Flashpoint was not an "alteration in time" story. It was an "alteration of reality" story. It began as you described it, with Prof. Zoom going back in time and changing specific events to make Barry Allen's life as miserable as possible (Killing his mother, killing his dog, etc.) but other forces were at play as well, creating an entirely different "reality" rather than simply an "alternate timeline." Zoom wanted the results of his meddling "fixed" as much as anyone. In the end, as Barry raced back in time to "set right what once went wrong," he was contacted by a spirit of a woman in red, who is apparently the mythological figure Pandora. For reasons of her own, she wanted the DCU strengthened by reintegrating two component universes that had gone their own way at some point, the Wildstorm Universe and the Vertigo line. Once she folded these plans into what Barry was doing, all of reality changed. The Nu52 is not the result of meddling with history so much as it is the result of changing all reality, meaning all bets are now off. Vertigo characters walk alongside DC mainstreamers who now work hand in hand with Wildstorm organizations. None of this is necessary to understand what is going on now in the DC titles any more than it was necessary to read all 12 issues and 55 some odd crossover issues of Crisis to start in on Man of Steel. The explanation of how the Nu52 came to be is there for those who want it. It can be ignored by those who just want to start in reading the adventures of the current DC heroes "from the start." The only tie leading back to that mini-series is whatever scheme Pandora is up to, and one hopes that will not involve a universe-spanning "crossover."
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