Flashpoint trade reading order

It wouldn't be Flashpoint week without a chronology guide to the trade paperback reading order for the Flashpoint miniseries event and all the World of Flashpoint tie-in collections.

We're going to do this two ways -- a reading list for the entire Flashpoint saga in TPBs, and then how to read the entire Flashpoint saga issue by issue (with a guide to which miniseries appears in which trade).

All of this information will also be updated on the DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline and in a new update, coming soon, to the DC TPB Timeline ebook.

Flashpoint Trade Reading Order

* Flashpoint
* Flashpoint: Batman
* Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
* Flashpoint: Superman
* Flashpoint: Green Lantern
* Flashpoint: The Flash

Flashpoint's tie-in miniseries are in my estimation about the least connected to the main story than any other DC Comics crossover. It is entirely possible to read just the main Flashpoint miniseries and get a full story without reading the tie-ins; those tie-ins, however, flesh out major parts of the story and add much depth to the actions of the main characters; you'll see Wonder Woman and Aquaman differently, especially, if you just read the main series or read the tie-ins as well.

Because DC has mixed and matched the tie-in miniseries into five collections, often pairing stories that take place during radically different times in the Flashpoint saga, it's very difficult to read the tie-in collections cover to cover and get a linear story (for that, see our issue by issue list next). Basically I recommend reading Flashpoint itself first, and then the other books will fill in the details. The most significant connection between the tie-in books is that the "Project Superman" story in Superman takes place after the "Lois Lane" story in Wonder Woman; the "Deadman" story in the Batman collection takes place before the "Lois Lane" story in Wonder Woman, but that connection is much, much less important. A character from "Project Superman" also appears in the "Frankenstein" story in Green Lantern (but that appearance, I believe, is a continuity error); the "Green Arrow" story in Green Lantern and the "Legion of Doom" story in Flash are related, but also not in an important way.

Flashpoint Reading Order by Issues

Most of the major events in the larger Flashpoint saga take place in either the Flashpoint miniseries or the Wonder Woman and the Furies tie-in miniseries. Issue #3 of Wonder Woman includes an eight-month gap, and it's there that most of the Flashpoint miniseries takes place.  To read the entire Flashpoint saga in issue order, a reader has to deal with a certain amount of "flashback" -- the third issue of Wonder Woman takes place both before the Flashpoint miniseries, and then in time with "current" events.

The Emperor Aquaman miniseries takes place both concurrent to Wonder Woman and also during the eight-month gap, so I've placed that series in its entirety after Wonder Woman; also the Lois Lane and the Resistance miniseries takes place mostly during the eight-month gap and then concurrent to Flashpoint, so I've placed that miniseries entirely after the last issue of Wonder Woman.

I have placed other books in line with whether they pre-date or intersect with Flashpoint, or where they intersect with the other tie-in miniseries.

Flashpoint: Reverse-Flash #1	Flashpoint: The Flash
Flashpoint: Project: Superman #1	Flashpoint: Superman
Flashpoint: Project: Superman #2	Flashpoint: Superman
Wonder Woman and the Furies #1	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman and the Furies #2	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Green Arrow Industries #1	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Legion of Doom #1	Flashpoint: The Flash
Legion of Doom #2	Flashpoint: The Flash
Legion of Doom #3	Flashpoint: The Flash
Grodd of War #1	Flashpoint: The Flash
Deadman and the Flying Graysons #1	Flashpoint: Batman
Deadman and the Flying Graysons #2	Flashpoint: Batman
Deadman and the Flying Graysons #3	Flashpoint: Batman
The Canterbury Cricket #1	Flashpoint: Superman
Abin Sur - The Green Lantern #1	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Hal Jordan #1	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Flashpoint #1	Flashpoint
Abin Sur - The Green Lantern #2	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
The Outsider #1	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Secret Seven #1	Flashpoint: Batman
Secret Seven #2	Flashpoint: Batman
Secret Seven #3	Flashpoint: Batman
Citizen Cold #1	Flashpoint: The Flash
Citizen Cold #2	Flashpoint: The Flash
Citizen Cold #3	Flashpoint: The Flash
Flashpoint #2	Flashpoint
The Outsider #2	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager #1	Flashpoint: Batman
Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager #2	Flashpoint: Batman
Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager #3	Flashpoint: Batman
Hal Jordan #2	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Batman: Knight of Vengeance #1	Flashpoint: Batman
Batman: Knight of Vengeance #2	Flashpoint: Batman
Batman: Knight of Vengeance #3	Flashpoint: Batman
Flashpoint #3	Flashpoint
Flashpoint #4	Flashpoint
Wonder Woman and the Furies #3	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Emperor Aquaman #1	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Emperor Aquaman #2	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Emperor Aquaman #3	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Lois Lane and the Resistance #1	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Lois Lane and the Resistance #2	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Lois Lane and the Resistance #3	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
Flashpoint: Project: Superman #3	Flashpoint: Superman
The Outsider #3	Flashpoint: Wonder Woman
The World of Flashpoint #1	Flashpoint: Superman
The World of Flashpoint #2	Flashpoint: Superman
The World of Flashpoint #3	Flashpoint: Superman
Booster Gold #44	Flashpoint: Superman
Booster Gold #45	Flashpoint: Superman
Booster Gold #46	Flashpoint: Superman
Booster Gold #47	Flashpoint: Superman
Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #2	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #3	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Hal Jordan #3	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Abin Sur - The Green Lantern #3	Flashpoint: Green Lantern
Flashpoint #5	Flashpoint
Kid Flash Lost #1	Flashpoint: The Flash
Kid Flash Lost #2	Flashpoint: The Flash
Kid Flash Lost #3	Flashpoint: The Flash

There you go! I'm happy to answer questions about this reading order. Come back Monday for our final Flashpoint review, World of Flashpoint Featuring the Flash ... and then be here Thursday for the first Collected Editions review of the DC New 52, Justice League Vol. 1: Origin. Don't miss it!