THE FLASH Movie Is Getting a Prequel Comic with Ben Affleck's Batman
DC Comics has announced that they will be developing a three-issue prequel comic book for DC’s The Flash movie. It’s titled The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, and it’s being developed by writer Kenny Porter and artist Ricardo López Ortiz.
The comic will also feature Ben Affleck’s version of Batman, and he will be training Barry Allen to help master his powers. You know, because Batman has a lot of experience mastering his own superpowers of brutally beating the hell out of people!
In The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, “Barry Allen’s world-saving adventure with the Justice League has driven Central City’s favorite son to become a truly skilled and inspirational Super Hero. But when a new threat by the name of Girder emerges in Central City, Barry turns to Batman for advice on training to master his powers. Under the Dark Knight’s tutelage, The Fastest Man Alive will have to find a way to defeat this metallic menace or be crushed by Girder’s strength.”
After The Flash is released, comic books are the only place that we’ll ever get to see Affleck’s Batman in action again. But The Flash movie will most likely wipe Affleck’s Batman from the DCU as Michael Keaton’s Dark Knight is reintroduced.
The three issues will be released between April and July with the 48-page first installment hitting comic book stores and Digital apps on April 26th.
The cover art you see below was penciled by Max Fiumara, and there will be a variant by the movie's director, Andy Muschietti. As for the interiors, artist Juan Ferreyra is coming on board for issue #2, while Jason Howard is set to join Porter for the third and final chapter.
