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Flashpoint: The 10th Anniversary Omnibus is the DC event where Barry Allen's personal mistake breaks the world and creates the road to the New 52. The book is built around an alternate timeline where familiar heroes are warped by war, loss and political collapse. Its shelf value is structural: this is not only a Flash story, but the hinge between one DC continuity and the next, with Thomas Wayne Batman and the Atlantean/Amazon conflict as major anchors.

One of the most ambitious periods ever written about Batman begins here. Grant Morrison rewrites the character based on a radical thesis: everything published since 1939 is canon. Damian Wayne appears for the first time as the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul. The seeds of Batman R.I.P. begin to take shape. Andy Kubert provides spectacular art that handles Morrison's densest plotting with visual clarity. The beginning of a seven-year run that would transform Batman mythology permanently.