Speed Force

Kaiser The Great sent me a link to a photo-comic re-creating the battle between Flash and Zoom in Blitz at this year’s MegaCon.

Here’s one panel:

Read the rest!

Mo sent me a link to this music video by keeptheheat. It’s an original rap song about “The life of Wally West (a.k.a. The Flash) and the many little perils he encounters on a daily basis.”

Okay, here goes: any wild theory you have about what’s going on in Flash: Rebirth, this is the place to discuss it!

One request: please avoid posting any actual spoilers beyond what’s currently available in the released issues, solicitations, and interviews.

Beyond that, speculate away!

DC Universe: The Source has posted some artwork from Flash: Rebirth, including the cover to issue #4:

iFanboy has posted the video from last week’s panel where Geoff Johns discussed Flash: Rebirth after a signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe in New York.

“The story of Rebirth is the story of the rebirth of [Barry Allen's] humanity.”

Update: CBR has a write-up of the event.

It’s been a week since the opening salvo of Flash: Rebirth, and this week’s comics feature Wally West’s team, the Titans, as the Titans/Teen Titans/Vigilante crossover begins.

Titans #12

Written by Judd Winick
Art by Howard Porter
Cover by Andrew Robinson

“Deathtrap” Part 1 of 5! Completely unhinged, Jericho continues his assault upon his former teammates. As if that wasn’t enough, he also draws the Teen Titans into his twisted plot. And the Vigilante makes it his mission to stop Jericho — permanently! Continued in Vigilante #5!

32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

Justice League Unlimited: Heroes TP

Written by Adam Beechen, Mike McAvennie & Bill Williams
Art by Carlo Barberi, Rick Burchett, Leigh Gallagher, Sanford Green and others

Justice League Unlimited #23-29 are collected in this new title starring The World’s Greatest Super Heroes!

144 pg, FC, $12.99 US

Geoff Johns promises that Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds #4 will be out “soon” (DC’s schedule currently shows May 13), and has posted a few panels of Kid Flash (Bart Allen) and XS (Jenni Ognats).

The original on his site is in TIFF format (and a lot bigger), so it may not show up in your web browser.

Mindless Ones takes an extensive look at the Morrison/Millar Flash run, focusing on the excellent Jay Garrick spotlight issue, Flash v.2 #134.

Flash: Rebirth #1 makes up a large chunk of the Weekly Crisis’ Moments of the Week.

4thLetter! asks, “You know what was hilarious?”

Daryl Tay wonders, New Flash or Old Flash? — contrasting the quick sell-out of Flash: Rebirth #1 with Newsarama’s “Who’s your favorite Flash” poll in which visitors overwhelmingly chose Wally West over Barry Allen.

The Four Color Media Monitor is glad to hear that Bart Allen is back.

Comicbook.com has 10 “Are You JOKING” Moments in Comic Books including the April 2008 return of Barry Allen

The Hero Initiative has announced their schedule for Free Comic Book Day (Saturday, May 2). Among other events, former Flash writers Mark Waid and Marc Guggenheim will be appearing at Collector’s Paradise in Winnetka, California from 12:00-3:00.

The first issue of Mark Waid’s Irredeemable sold out in one day, and will get a second printing.

The Weekly Crisis talks about corporate comics, with DC and Marvel as Intellectual Property companies first, and comics companies second.

Once Upon a Geek digs up an old ad for COIE…back when the title was going to be “DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths.”

And totally off-topic, there’s Rorschach Reviews Watchmen.

• Why Las Vegas is a BAD idea for Comic-Con #
• One thing’s for sure: there’s a ton of online buzz over Flash: Rebirth. #
• Odd: Saturday WonderCon report has more views than Friday even though Friday’s been up longer. #
• Please let this not be an early April Fool’s joke: RT @warrenellis: Just heard from DC that John Cassaday has finished PLANETARY #27. #
• Just one day more to Flash: Rebirth! #
• Barry Allen is back…and it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to him! #
• Anyone know what timezone gets its comics first? Does Europe get its American comics on Wednesdays? #
• When does my LCS open? How early can I justify taking lunch? Didn’t think I’d be this excited about Flash: Rebirth. #
• This week’s comics: Flash: Rebirth, Noble Causes, Buffy and Farscape #
• Flash: Rebirth #1 = 90% excellent, 5% metacommentary, 5% WTF-worthy annoying retcon. #
• Crazy idea: What if Blackest Night and Flash: Rebirth are linked, and there’s a Blackest Night: Flash special coming up? #
• And apparently Geoff Johns never read Mark Waid’s The Life Story of the Flash. We’ve never seen Barry’s life before he was Flash? *headdesk* #
• Noble Causes #40: bittersweet but fitting end to series. At least Dynamo 5 is still going. #
• The more I think about Flash: Rebirth #1, the more certain elements just bug the heck out of me. #
• I don’t want Flash to be grim and gritty. The Rogues, yes, but the Flash should be bright and heroic. #
• Flash SEO: Always remembering to write “Barry Allen” and “Wally West” instead of just “Barry” and “Wally.” #
• Funny. Retweeting @fullofwhoa: Barry Allen’s most exciting adventure to date. #
• Weekend goal: catch up on comics that I’m 4+ months behind on and decide whether I should keep buying them. #
• Retweeting @Freddieart: Flash Monkey (1) fund Raiser for ACS at the Florida FX show 2008 #
• Finally pre-ordered Girl Genius vol.8! Plug: www.girlgeniusonline.com #

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Cleaned up a bit to remove linkposts that duplicate posts on the blog itself, plus formatting.

A couple of new interviews popped up over the weekend with Flash: Rebirth‘s writer and artist.

First IO9 interviews Geoff Johns. The answer that I found most intriguing from this interview was this:

Is the tone similar to Green Lantern: Rebirth? Because Green Lantern has a tone of, I don’t want to say “space opera,” but it’s been very grandiose and the stakes have never been small.

Green Lantern is to Space as the Flash is to Time.

The backdrop is, big and epic. But it’s a little bit more character-focused, though, the difference being, I gotta get into Barry Allen’s history more because he’s more of an unknown to people.

Let’s look at that again: “Green Lantern is to Space as the Flash is to Time.”

Next is the Blog@Newsarama Q&A with Ethan Van Sciver.

EVS: The reader can draw his own conclusions, but again, I don’t think it’s cynicism on Barry’s part, but a sense that something is very wrong. We’re not seeing the Barry we’re used to here, and there’s a reason for that.

I’m reminded of the fact that Bilson and DeMeo said the same thing about Bart at the beginning of Flash: The Fastest Man Alive. Of course, no one listened to them.