Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool reported a few days ago that when Flashpoint hits, much like Marvel’s Age of Apocalypse, titles influenced by the crossover will go on a temporary hiatus only to be replaced by other titles, with different numberings, to showcase the alternate universe that the story is about (and then obviously go back to normal after). I’m supportive of this idea as, frankly, it adds a little more impact to a crossover that shifts realities then what, say, Marvel did with House of M. Sure, you can toss a banner on a book and do your tie-in, but all it really does is make a run of the title look weird. Like if you check out Brubaker’s first Captain America Omnibus there’s the House of M issue randomly stuck in the back because it just didn’t fit in at all with the book as it was.
Reasons like that are why putting books on hiatus to do things like this work, well, that and it feels more important when it’s not just a special three issue miniseries that loosely ties in to the event like all of the Blackest Night miniseries.
Of course, this is all rumors, and they were unable to find any concrete proof. Well, until George Perez said something that got the wheels turning a bit more.
“Then I’m set to draw a mini-series called THE SECRET SEVEN” is what was posted on his Facebook fanpage.
Now, I’m not a detective like the Bat or the Elongated Man, but I am a reader of Secret SIX, and I could definitely see the team becoming the Secret Seven for a Flashpoint miniseries….as if the team were to just add another member, I don’t see them handling it in a separate miniseries, or just having a new group altogether with such a similar name to an existing group/book.
Things will be interesting, to say the least. Stay tuned.
