In the main DCU, Bruce Wayne became Batman when his parents Martha and Thomas were murdered in Crime Alley. But in the DC Omniverse, there's an alternate reality where Martha and Bruce were murdered and where his father, Thomas Wayne, became Batman in a 2011 event called Flashpoint.
But that Flashpoint world was seemingly destroyed when DC relaunched its universe with The New 52, although Thomas survived. Now beginning April 12 Thomas Wayne is going back home to find out how his universe survived, and if he can bring back his dead son with it.
Picking up the strands from the original event series by writer Geoff Johns is the new seven-issue comic book series Flashpoint Beyond.
The series begins with a Flashpoint Beyond #0 (opens in new tab) special written by Johns and illustrated by artist Eduardo Risso, who drew the 2011 spin-off series Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance (opens in new tab), and then will be followed monthly beginning in May by six issues through October co-written by Johns along with current Flash scribe Jeremy Adams and Teen Titans Academy (opens in new tab)'s Tim Sheridan, and illustrated by former Justice League artist Xermanico.
While in the original Flashpoint, Barry Allen the Flash was at the center of the story, Flashpoint Beyond stars the elder, darker Batman and other alt-reality versions of DC icons from his world.
Flashpoint Beyond will also bring together other worlds from DC's Omniverse, with characters from another Geoff Johns event series, 2017's Doomsday Clock (opens in new tab) which mashed up the core DC Universe and the world of Watchmen, joining the story.
Doomsday Clock's Mime and Marionette team up with Bruce Wayne Batman in preview pages of Flashpoint Beyond #0, which also
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