August's Flash #785 might hold the key to Dark Crisis

The 'Search fo💮r Barry Allen' storyl𝔍ine could be the blueprint for the return of the dead Justice League

The Flash #785 cover art
The Flash #785 cover art (Image credit: DC)

Don't sleep on The Flash. DC's monthly series, along with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Worlds Without A Justice League specials, may hold the key to writer Joshua Williamson's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dark Crisis event and how long the Justice League will remain 'dead' following the events of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Justice League #75.

The Flash writer the covers - by artists Taurin Clarke and George Kambadais, respectively, to August's Flash #785, the latest chapter of a Dark Crisis tie-in story in which the title's star Wally West and the extended Flash Family search for the missing Barry Aꦫllen and yes, we're emphasizing missing for🌞 a reason.

Flash #785 with art by Amancay Nahuelpan is scheduled for an August 16 release and Newsarama can add to the covers the first look at DC's desc👍ription of the issue.

"Just when the speedsters to have snapped Barry out of Pariah's clutches, Wallace seems to be falling in. And the creator of Ba🦹rry's mind prison isn't about to let the team of Speedsters just run off. And even if they could, where exactly would they run to…?"

Bookmark "mind prison."

The 'Search for Barry Allen' story arc began in June's The Flash #783 and in July's The Flash #ജ784 Wally and Wallace find Barry on the planet Pariah trapped him oꦿn.

Why is that important? Because as we detail elsewhere Barry was seemingly 'killed' by Pariah in 2021's Infinite Frontier in the same exact way Pariah 'killed' the Just💎ice League in Justice L꧑eague #75 and Barry w꧒ound up on a Silver Age꧅-dream-like mind prison instead of dead, and he's apparently still alive enough for the Flash Family to find and interact with him.

The logical next deduction is the alternate dream-like worlds of the Worlds Without a Justice League specials are ♏mind prisons just like Barry's, meaning the Justice Leaguers are still out there waiting to be saved just like Barry.

But that'༒s getting ahead of the game. There are still seven w♏hole issues of a Dark Crisis series that hasn't even begun yet.

And since we're on the subject, here'﷽s a variant cover to August's  Dark Crisis #3, featuring ... wait for it... a ne🌠w Justice League?

We have our quest꧋ions, but that's a subject for another time...

DC is almost certainly counting on Dark Crisis becoming one of its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:most impactful DC events of all time.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Michael Doran

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