
"Jeremy and I have been friends and colleagues for years - we came up together writing for TV and film - and I’ll work with him any chance I can get," Sheridan says. I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention Xermanico’s unbelievable work on the series. We knew if we were going to do it, we had to have an event story that was in the spirit of the original – emotional, epic, surprising and impactful – centered around the great DC Universe, pointing into the future and focused on character. Mike Cotton originally got us all together and we brainstormed what going back to Flashpoint might look like. Jeremy has such a passion for DC lore and exploring it in such an enthusiastic way (I love his Wally) and Tim is always coming from such a wonderful place of emotion. Johns continues, "And it was also Jeremy and Tim, who I’ve loved collaborating with. Along with the story, that sealed it for me." Eduardo was one of the few artists left on my list that I’d never gotten to collaborate with, so when we were first talking about re-visiting Flashpoint, I said I would love to work with him – and he was interested and jumped on board. "I’ve wanted to do something with Eduardo since I was introduced to his work back in 100 Bullets. "In addition to having a story to tell with Thomas Wayne, it really started with Eduardo Risso," Johns says. He just wanted an excuse to work with Risso, an artist lauded for his work on books like 100 Bullets. But as Johns tells IGN, the origin of Flashpoint Beyond is a lot simpler than readers might expect. With 2021 serving as the tenth anniversary of the original Flashpoint, and with the upcoming Flash movie apparently borrowing heavily from that storyline, it's not necessarily surprising to learn DC is revisiting this alternate universe. 14 Images The Origin of Flashpoint Beyond
