Flashpoint #1 - A Few Things Of Note

Unlike previous years' big events, I won't be annotating Flashpoint and it's various associated spin-off titles, but last week's Flashpoint #1 did contain a couple of things that either made me chuckle or wonder if there was any real significance. The annotater in me couldn't help but then think: hmmm, there may be a blog post in this.

The big two-page spread (click on the above to embiggen) that gave us our first look at the Batman held a few things: the "Wayne's World" sign in the bottom left was obviously a call-out to that dreadful, goddam movie; the "Queen of Hearts Roulette" sign probably references the JSA villain Roulette, created by Geoff Johns; and as with the best alternate worlds, there's zepplins in the air.

Spandex! Clad! Butt!

I've written before about how this post which contains the phrase "spandex-clad butt" is consistently at the top of my hit reports for individual posts despite being almost two years old. There are obviously a fair few people out there in the wide world who have a thing for spandex and butts and, through the wonder of the internet, they keep finding this blog. I'd like to think they stop and have a read of something else here but, if I'm honest, I have a feeling the interest lays more with butts than superheroes.

Anyhow, I mentioned this just yesterday in another post, jokingly throwing in a reference to the phrase which appeared in Justice League of Amazons, spoken by both Huntress and Power Girl.

I've been re-reading some JSA: Classified issues lately and in a wonderful burst of synchronicity came across this exchange in #19 between Roulette and her hired help:

Let's have a closer look at that third panel, shall we, where we can read Roulette's dialogue:

Well I'll be damned!

Have I stumbled across a meme within the DCU?!