The original [b:Flashpoint|11501608|Flashpoint|Geoff Johns|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1507329660l/11501608._SY75_.jpg|16437195] by Geoff Johns was a somewhat uneven crossover event, but there's no question the best thing that came out of it was the Flashpoint Batman and Flashpoint Joker. Now, Johns and his collaborators have found a way to bring these fascinatingly flawed characters back to life and into the newly revamped DC multiverse, not so much a retcon but more of a ret-reboot (retboot?). I think this is a more successful integration of the Flashpoint universe into continuity than Johns' [b:Doomsday Clock|53787267|Doomsday Clock The Complete Collection|Geoff Johns|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600744474l/53787267._SY75_.jpg|69079923] or Joshua Williamson's [b:Batman/The Flash: The Button|35197473|Batman/The Flash The Button|Joshua Williamson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1500987935l/35197473._SX50_.jpg|56534329]; certainly, I hope it sticks this time. We also get hints at some of what's to come for Earth-1 Batman as time travelers Rip Hunter and company fail to stave off Batman's meddling with the time and space continuum. I think DC's approach to resurrecting its multiverse with this and Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths is a positive move. Getting rid of the multiverse in 1985's [b:Crisis on Infinite Earths|194479|Crisis on Infinite Earths|Marv Wolfman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327906696l/194479._SX50_.jpg|188088] ultimately limited DC's ability to tell alternate versions of its characters, so now the possibilities for creativity are endless without disrupting the core continuity of its line.