As fans await for the overdue arrival for DC's The Flash later this year, an official tie-in comic has been announced for the upcoming film. Just recently, the publisher revealed that The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive will be releasing this summer. The comic prelude will be a three-issue monthly series beginning in April and will conclude in July. The events taking place in The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive will directly lead up to The Flash film, with the entire series being collected in a trade paperback in October. You can check out the main cover photo for the first issue below.
The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #1 features a main cover by Max Fiumara with a variant cover by the director of The Flash, Andy Muschietti. The 48-page debut issue will arrive in participating comic book shops and digital retailers on April 26, 2022. The upcoming comic prelude will be written by Kenny Porter, with art from Ricardo López Ortiz, Juan Ferreyra, and Jason Howard across the three issues. Issue #2 will be available in May and will feature art by fan-favorite Juan Ferreyra, with Jason Howard providing art for the final issue in July.
The official synopsis for The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive reads as, 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!
The Flash is set to be directed by Muschietti, with a script from Birds of Prey and Batgirl's Christina Hodson. It will star Ezra Miller as Barry Allen / The Flash, both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton's iterations of Bruce Wayne / Batman, as well as Sasha Calle as Supergirl, Ron Livingston as Henry Allen, Maribel Verdu as Nora Allen, Ian Loh as a young Barry Allen, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson and Rudy Mancuso playing currently-unknown roles. After years being in development, DC's The Flash film is finally on track to appear on the big screen this November. The upcoming film had faced multiple delays caused by the director changes, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Flash Writer Talks About What to Expect From Director Andy Muschietti
Back in 2020, writer Christina Hodson highly spoke about The Flash director, while sharing her excitement about working on the project. "I think Andy's fantastic," Hodson shared with ComicBook.com. "What I loved about IT, The first one, in particular, is that he can do scary, he can do big genre stuff, but he can also do real heart. He can give those characters real emotional depth. And that's something that I would love to see in Flash." Honestly, there's so little I'm allowed to say about Flash," Hodson confessed. "I will tell you that for me, the reasons to do it now is because I love it. I'm having a blast working on it. And that is about all I'm allowed to say."
"What captivated me about The Flash is the human drama in it," Andy Muschietti previously revealed to Fandango. "The human feelings and emotions that play in the drama [of it]. It's going to be fun, too. I can't promise that there will be any horror [elements in it], really, but it's a beautiful human story." The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive will hit the bookshelves both physically and digitally on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. The Flash arrives in theaters on Friday, November 4, 2022.