Canterbury...my bottom
Flashpoint, like space, is really, really big. It encompasses a lot of the world, with a lot of Europe and England being destroyed. Yes, okay, that's really bad - but why didn't America get knackered? Anyway...We find ourselves drawn into a story about some people in England, Etrigan, Jenny Green-teeth, some forgettable woman and Godiva. Great, we have DC's greatest English heroes here and they're a demon, some ugly witch, forgettable woman and a blonde haired medusa. So, anyway, we're finding them fighting Amazons. Fairly unremarkable, when they're rescued by the...CANTERBURY CRICKET! YEAH! Finally, a cool bug related hero who is from where I am from (Nearly. I'm not far from Canterbury, my girlfriend went to Uni there and I go shopping there, it's actually where my nearest comic shop is. Great place. Whatever comics - If you go there, visit. IT's friendly.)
Right, so Canterbury Cricket is a guy who went to the University of Kent (Isn't in Canterbury, incidentally. It's Christchurch University or something in Canterbury. University of Kent is elsewhere) we get a lovely scene of the main guy before he gets transformed in the most banal way into the Cricket hob knobbing on the Green in front of the Cathedral with some friends on the Campus of the University of Kent.
One has to wonder, upon reading this comic, if there was actually ANY POINT OF REFERENCE in the artist drawing Canterbury Cathedral. There is no Green outside the Cathedral, or benches to sit on. I know. I've been there like a hundred times. It's a small square with a water feature and cobble-stones. It's not hard to find pictures on the internet. Thats why we have google. Or research WHERE the University of Kent is, or Chirstchurch University, and find out that IT IS NOWHERE NEAR THE CATHEDRAL!!
ANYWAY
Aside from poor researching abilities, this isn't a very good comic. Boring dialogue, boring plot, set up for another series. Unremarkable in every way. Didn't even like the design of the main guy in it, despite the nice art from Rags Morales. So, really, massive failure for this reader - The fact it was based around where I live, and it makes zero sense or effort to conform to that really took me out of the story. It's a bit like making the Eiffel Tower the greatest landmark in Nice, or the Statue of Liberty the mascot of Chicago. Its just not right.
So. One Star. Because it was rubbish.
