Thread:Tupka217/@comment-24991799-20170520111225/@comment-1038387-20170520115103

Flashpoint rewrote the timeline (or created a new one from scratch, really) and condensed the events. The first Justice League arc happened 5 years before everything else. Aging was only seen in flashbacks, and primarily for the Robins and other teens. Adults in their prime don't change that much in 5 years. No explicit ages were mentioned IIRC. It was an attempt to streamline everything and take into account that heroes from WWII would be centenarians by now, or close to. It cut out a whole lot of stuff people liked.

Rebirth put a lot of that back under the excuse of "Dr. Manhattan stole 10 years from the timeline", but the majority still has to be explained. We thought the recently finished Batman/Flash crossover The Button was going to explain things, but noooo. We probably have to wait for The Doomsday Clock, coming in November.