The following contains spoilers for Flashpoint Beyond #6, on sale now from DC Comics.

The sixth and final issue of Flashpoint Beyond concludes the series that took readers back to this drastically different version of the DC Universe. By the end of the book, Flashpoint Batman/Thomas Wayne accepts living in the Flashpoint Universe, abandoning his mission to destroy it and reconnect with his son, Bruce, the main DCU Batman. He is instead reunited with his wife, Martha Wayne (Flashpoint's Joker), and takes on Dexter Dent as his Robin. The three of them become a new Bat-Family for Flashpoint and face their universe's threats together, including an impending Kryptonian invasion. Meanwhile, 13 Golden Age heroes have disappeared from the Time Masters' clutches and rejoined the main DCU timeline, while newcomer Cleopatra Pak makes her debut as Nostalgia and is on a mission to find "The Watchman."

In an exclusive interview with CBR, writers Geoff Johns, Jeremy Adams, and Tim Sheridan discuss Flashpoint Beyond's finale and explain how it will impact the DC Multiverse moving forward. Artwork from Flashpoint Beyond #6 is included, illustrated by Xermánico, Mikel Janín, and Gary Frank, with colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr., Jordie Bellaire, and Brad Anderson, and letters by Rob Leigh. Also shown are panels from the rest of the miniseries, Doomsday Clock, and uncolored artwork by Jerry Ordway for the upcoming The New Golden Age #1, written by Johns, showing off one of the 13 characters reintegrated with the DC timeline.

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CBR: Flashpoint Beyond has ended, but it sets up some new threads for the DCU. Hypertime has been mentioned in The Flash. Nostalgia and the Time Masters are going to be in The New Golden Age out in November. How will Beyond affect other titles moving forward?

Geoff Johns: Jeremy, do you want to start?

Jeremy Adams: No, I was like, "Geoff, this is your brainchild."

Johns: The idea is that a lot of events have returned characters that have been gone. It felt like, for us, we really wanted to introduce new characters, but new characters that had a history -- new characters that would have stories that you couldn't predict, motivations and endings and origins that you don't know.

So, by introducing -- and we'll understand why -- these 13 characters into the DC Universe's history again, with Judy Garrick being one of them that Jeremy has mentioned in his Flash book and I've mentioned before in the Stargirl [Spring Break] Special and in Flashpoint Beyond. She's kind of one of the main characters of these 13 that's gonna reemerge in the DCU, but it's all about inserting new characters and new ideas and questions and intrigue into the DC Universe that isn't just for now but is even for then. We'll be exploring what those 13 characters meant and mean in [Justice Society of America] and also the Stargirl miniseries, and some other things coming up too that we haven't announced yet.

Adams: I think this is a really great thing that was set up in terms of the Time Masters and everything in Issue #0. Geoff had smartly put that blackboard with the Divine Continuum and all that stuff, and this is a payoff to that. What's interesting is it's just helping us do another off-ramp off of this already emotional story that's about Thomas and Martha and Dexter and all that stuff that's happening, but it's not for naught. It's not just, "Hey, here's a little soap opera." It's like, "This is a wonderful story," but the best kind of stories also leave us with... It's gonna have an effect. It's gonna have a ripple effect with Hypertime and all that stuff, and I think that's really cool.

Johns: I think one of the key things was that we wanted to tell a complete, emotional story that finished in Flashpoint Beyond. So, it does finish off and kind of kickstarts Thomas Wayne's new chapter with, I think, probably Tim's favorite character, Dexter, who is really fun. We end this chapter of Thomas Wayne's world with this new matrix of new family he's got, and we wanted to make sure that the ending had an emotionally satisfying event with Thomas and Bruce, but then also taking the Time Masters and some of that other stuff we set up and having that play out in something else 'cause it's always the cause and effect, and that was the motivation for it.

Tim Sheridan: I mean, when you think about it, too, it makes sense -- at least to me -- that if what you're doing is launching into, introducing, bringing some new characters in that have a lived-in history, that have a backstory that maybe we have some familiarity with or it will be new to us... [in] Flashpoint, Thomas Wayne wasn't a new character technically, right? But Flashpoint gave us an alternate history, a new history for him, a backstory, and something we got to sort of discover, which we get to explore even more in Flashpoint Beyond. I think it's so fitting what Geoff is doing now, bringing sort of that same kind of spark to some new characters.

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Johns: Here, I'll show you one of the -- this is a really cool image from New Golden Age. So, this is by Jerry Ordway, and it's a Who's Who page 'cause in the back of New Golden Age, we actually have 13 Who's Who entries that fell out of the original Who's Who. They're designed to exist and live alongside the Who's Who, but they're characters, and you get their histories and who they were and how they reinserted into DC's history.

This is one called "The Harlequin's Son," who's actually based off a character that was gonna be introduced in Infinity, Inc. by Roy Thomas and actually had a design, which is this design. So, we're bringing this character that was supposed to be and never was back in, but this is just an example. Most of them are new. Some of them have ties to things like this, which are really cool, like really, really cool. It's a deep, deep cut, but hardcore fans will see it.

Sheridan: I love Jerry Ordway.

Johns: Yeah, he's the best.

Sheridan: Such a sweet guy.

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To focus on Beyond's Batmen, after over a decade since Flashpoint, the rest of the letter Thomas Wayne wrote to his son, Bruce, was revealed. What made you want to finally extend this message after so much time, and what did it mean to you doing so?

Johns: I think that letter said everything that resonates with both the first Flashpoint and this Flashpoint, and so, rather than reveal the motivation [behind] that or what Bruce believed that his father could achieve or wanted to achieve and would achieve through a conversation between Bruce and Rip [Hunter], we thought it was more interesting to show the letter and see the rest of that letter 'cause that letter is so iconic in the story.

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Nostalgia. We get our first appearance of the character at the end of Beyond #6. What can you share about Nostalgia, her search -- it looked like -- for Doctor Manhattan and her connection to The Watchmen's Ozymandias?

Johns: Cleopatra Pak was set up actually at the end of Doomsday Clock [#12], so her first appearance technically is there, but as Nostalgia, it's here. She's looking for someone called "The Watchman," but that is in reference to Clark Dreiberg, who is the kid at the very end of Doomsday Clock.

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On the subject of Watchmen, Flashpoint Beyond wound up not only being a continuation of Flashpoint but Doomsday Clock as well. What made you all want to mesh elements from these two stories together, and how did your creative process work while writing Beyond?

Sheridan: I like how you sneaked that one in at the end. "How did your creative process work?" A lot of people wanna know that.

Johns: Really, [for] Flashpoint Beyond, we all jammed on together from day one, and we always talked about the core creative of what Thomas Wayne's journey was. The stuff from Doomsday Clock is only in the first opening of Issue #0 and then the very end of [Flashpoint Beyond #6]. Some of the effects of time travel play into it, but other than that, it's really more of a sequel to Flashpoint.

Adams: But how we work, we meet in different locales, whether it's Zoom but a lot of times at Geoff's office, and he was just gracious enough to open that up and just talk. It's the best type of collaboration. It's when you walk into a comic book store, and somebody's having a fight about who's stronger. It's that type of vibe where you're just like, "Well, what if this happened?" or "What if this happened?" or "We need this to happen," and push and pull and trying to make it work, and it was really, really fun. I enjoyed it.

Sheridan: I think we've talked about this before, too. Jeremy and I being relatively new to comics, we were really excited to get to jump into this with Geoff, and I think I was saying, like, "Maybe I can learn something," if only from somebody who's been around a little bit doing this. I think what we've discovered... I don't know, what I've discovered is the joy of working. This is not how I worked on any of the previous books that I was working on, but it's a lot like working in television where we all get together and can just sort of start throwing out ideas and bad ideas too -- things that lead you ultimately to the good ideas.

I think it's worked the same way [as a] script. We'll write some stuff, and we'll write some scenes, and I've felt really safe knowing that Geoff is there. Sorry, Geoff, I'm going to embarrass you, but knowing that Geoff is there to guide us or guide me at least and make this thing shine as best as it can, a story that we all kind of knew that we wanted to tell. You know, what's the best way to tell it? It's been a really great experience.

Johns: It's funny 'cause the story when we finally landed on it... I think the core emotional [story], that hasn't changed at all.

Sheridan: No, yeah. In fact, there's a couple of beats too, one in particular [at] the end of [Flashpoint Beyond] #6 that I think we hit pretty early on and has survived a lot of the creative process, but it's a really big, emotional beat that's very simple and a small moment.

Johns: I know what you're talking about. The one with Dexter?

Sheridan: The shoelace.

Johns: Oh, I loved that one!

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Sheridan: Yeah, there's so much emotion in that beat. There's so much behind it for all the characters, and it's a simple thing, but it's the kind of thing that it's so small it easily could have not made it into the final book, but I love that it did.

Johns: Someone pitched [that] at the very end, Martha says -- just to show that touch of the maternal instinct -- that his shoelace is untied, that she calls it out, and she tells Thomas. It's like, "Help this kid."

Sheridan: It's a glimmer of hope for all three of them.

Johns: It is. It's a glimmer of hope, yeah, and still twisted, right? They're still this violent trio.

Sheridan: She's in a cell!

Johns: She's like Hannibal Lecter for Batman and Robin, and it's cool.

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At the end of Beyond, Thomas accepts the Flashpoint timeline and begins to face the problems he has been ignoring in the world -- Kryptonian invasion, all kinds of stuff -- with a new Robin at his side. What future plans, if any, are there for the Flashpoint Universe?

Johns: I think that's maybe a Jeremy question for The Flash.

Adams: Ha! No, I think right now, I don't think there is a concentration really on Thomas, Martha, and Dexter. I think we've left them in a great staging area if ever needed to be revisited. I think what's great is -- especially with what Geoff has done leading into The New Golden Age -- this has been kind of a wonderful... The best type of stories, even if you think about the first Flashpoint, it's like, "Here's a story, its beginning, middle, and end," but then it has this reverberation effect on the entire DC universe. This may not be like we're rebooting the entire universe, but it sets up this other piece of the DC Universe that we get to play in.

I don't know if you guys are like this, but to me, everybody's like, "You should use this character. You should use this thing." If I could think of a really good story that needs to be told in [Flashpoint], great. I will. But right now, I think the next thing to think about is New Golden Age rather than "What else can we do with these characters right now?"

Sheridan: Here's the thing. I don't wanna say that Flashpoint Beyond is Flashpoint in this effect, but there is something about Flashpoint that [is] the reason why I think people who were fans like Jeremy and I, we couldn't quite shake it. We've never been able to shake it. There was something so monumental about Flashpoint that we felt like there was more, there was something else there, and happily, Geoff felt the same way that there was stuff to explore still. I think the fact that you asked the question is pretty much the answer to the question. We've never been able to shake our interest, as fans, [our] obsession with this timeline, [or] this other world of Flashpoint. Hopefully, if people wanna go there someday, hopefully, someone will be able to take us there.

Johns: Yeah, I think the thing that was so exciting to me at the end of this was that I wanted to see them take on the Kryptonians, right? I wanted to see Thomas and Dexter hook up with Superman and those other freaky characters he's teamed up with and have to ultimately face a Kryptonian army. Suddenly my head started to get into what that story could be and how exciting that story was, and how the Joker could help them by telling them, "Ok, this is what I would do with Kryptonite if I were you." There's something really fun about that, but the fact that I think everyone starts to imagine that story… It's just a good sign for that world. It's a fun world, and it's in a snow globe in Bruce Wayne's Batcave, so anyone can kind of zoom in on that snow globe and go inside that world and tell that story.

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What can you tease for readers about your new titles and ongoing projects following Flashpoint Beyond?

Sheridan: I can't say anything. [laughs] I'm working on some TV stuff I can't talk about.

Adams: Talking about the different things, I have a Super Sons movie and Mortal Kombat movie coming out, and then Flash has just been a joy to write. We go twice a month in January, starting with a "One Minute War" run that I'm doing and I'm very, very excited about.

Johns: Yeah, that's actually a really cool idea, that "One Minute War."

Adams: Yeah, I'm super pumped. I have a new Flash idea that I'm really excited about that came to me in a fugue state on the plane back from [New York Comic Con]. I was like, "Oh my gosh!"

Johns: Does it involve wrestling?

Adams: No, no, but come on! I'm just saying! My alter ego [Smash Adams] has made a foolish throwing-down [of] the gauntlet to any pro wrestlers willing to fight for the intergalactic, Multiversal belt.

Sheridan: People think that Jeremy wanted to write comics. I think he might end up as a professional wrestler.

Adams: You're talking about Smash! You're not talking about me.

Sheridan: Oh, I'm sorry. Smash Adams is gonna be a professional wrestler.

Johns: Yeah, I'm working on Junkyard Joe, which is a book at Image [Comics] by Gary Frank and I. It just came out, and the third season of Stargirl is airing, and then some other stuff I can't talk about.

Written by Geoff Johns, Tim Sheridan, and Jeremy Adams, with art by Xermánico, Mikel Janín, and Gary Frank, Flashpoint Beyond #6 is on sale now from DC Comics. To understand Smash Adams and The Flash's wrestling connection, The Flash #787 is also on sale now.