“My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive.” – Follow The Flash on his new adventure, this time in the form of a novel. Written by Barry Lyga, Crossover Crisis is the written crossover event every Arrowverse fan always looks forward to.
The Legends of Tomorrow are on the Waverider somewhere in space, while The Green Arrow and The Flash are keeping Star City and Central City safe until there is a breach and metahumans from another earth are coming through. Of course, none of them are playing for the Heroes team. The metas from Earth 27 are the opposite of Earth 1, which is our world. The good guys are evil and the bad guys are good. Central City is now full of speedsters and guys like Ultraman, whose power are similar to Superman and Kryptonite cannot harm him it actually powers him up. To have the slightest chance to defeat them, Barry needs help from Green Arrow and his team.
Since Arrow has aired, I am now somewhat less faithful to the Arrowverse because I do not like some developments they made on screen lately. Reading this book and imagining the actors was quite fun and the novel refers to events that have just taken place in the last couple season of The Flash and Arrow so it feels like a little refresher.
Still, the book stands on its own and should not be mixed up with the TV shows. Using the multiverse, the book tells the story of another Barry who did not create Flashpoint. Ray explains it on the first couple of pages and later Cisco tells Team Flash about his monthly conversation with himself from the other timeline.
For the 250 something pages, there were quite a few different storylines moving forward at the same time. While Barry and his team work together with half of Oliver and his Green Arrow Team in Central City, Jo helps in Star City with a well-known Bee Lady. I would have loved to get to know more about the shortly introduced Madam Xanadu who is not a meta but uses real magic!
What I really liked was that everyone has a bad doppelgänger and that even the noble Bruce Wayne has one and the “…to be continued” sounds like we will have quite a lot of him in the next instalment in which Barry and Oliver gets help from Supergirl to defeat Anti-Matter Man, a weapon used in an invasion of the positive matter universe, a power that even its creator fears it.
Some time ago, I had the pleasure of reading Bang by Barry Lyga, which is an entirely different and more mature story. Let me tell you, no matter which book you will pick up by him, you will not be disappointed. No matter what he writes, you going to love it!
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Synopsis | Goodreads
It’s the crossover event fans have been waiting for, as The Flash joins forces with Green Arrow!
When the Green Arrow needs help tracking down a sinister bomber in Star City, speedster Barry Allen is out the door in a flash. But as The Flash saves the day with his friends on Team Arrow, a huge dimensional rift appears over his hometown of Central City—and thousands of refugees with superspeed come pouring out. Can the combined skills of Team Arrow and The Flash’s friends at S.T.A.R. Labs manage the chaos long enough to stop the rift from tearing their universe apart? This exciting first installment in the new crossover trilogy promises to be one of the most action-packed reads of the season. Supergirl, Superman, and the heroes from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will be joining in on the fun in books two and three of this can’t-miss trilogy.
