A Cut Above

I got a haircut last week and decided to get something different. I was really fed up with my hair and it took some deliberation to figure out what I wanted to do. For the record, I didn’t shave my head.

Last time I mentioned that DC announced the creative teams and covers of eight of the fifteen Flashpoint mini series, but I only talked about half of them. Based on the cover, it looks like the Flashpoint Deathstroke is an honest to goodness pirate! Palmiotti has demonstrated with Freedom Fighters, Jonah Hex, and his run on Power Girl that he can write a really fun and entertaining story. I expect that the swashbuckling tale of the Terminator and his mighty ship Ravager is going to be quite entertaining indeed.

When the first teasers for Flashpoint were released, they mentioned an arranged marriage between Wonder Woman and Aquaman. There were also teaser images of an armored Wonder Woman in a burning London and a flooded Paris. The Wonder Woman/Aquaman power couple would unite two of the greatest super-powered nations with Atlantis and Themyscira and Kris and I assumed that something in Flashpoint would cause these nations to declare war on the rest of the world, causing the teased destruction. Based on the cover of World of Flashpoint it looks like that this arranged marriage is not one in which the couple found love later. If Aquaman and Wonder Woman’s romantic unhappiness resulted in their respective nations declaring war on each other, then the destruction of London and Paris might just be an unfortunate side effect. It could also be the case that angry military buzz-cut Emperor Aquaman (and who wouldn’t be angry with that haircut?) declares war on the surface world and his wife is the only one to stand in his way. This will be very interesting if true, especially since a big part of Aquaman’s actions in Brightest Day was to stop a very similar war.

Finally, I will buy Deadman & the Flying Graysons for the covers alone if they all look like this first cover. Cliff Chiang did some variant covers for Birds of Prey in this art nouveau style he’s using for the D&FG cover. I wasn’t a fan of it there, but it definitely fits the feel of this book. I think this book has the potential to be one of the most interesting mini series in Flashpoint and one that I’m definitely going to pick up, even if I don’t invest in the whole event.