May 9, 2009

Speed Reading: Covers, Talking Costumes and Ewoks on Steroids

Category: Covers, Flash History — By Kelson @ 12:12 pm

Some weekend linkblogging:

Art

Covered features artist James Duncan’s reinterpretation of Flash v.1 #108.

Flash v.1 #159iFanboy’s Great Moments in Comics features a scan of the Flash’s costume begging Barry Allen not to leave it. “The Case of the Curious Costume,” which appeared in Flash v.1 #161 (1966) was a “bonus” story based on the cover from Flash v.1 #159. (Thanks to GCD for the scan!)

Crave Online’s Top 5 Covers for April starts the countdown with Flash: Rebirth #1 at position 5.

History

Over at Comics Should Be Good, Scott’s Classic Comics Corner has been trying to pin down the start of the Bronze Age of comics (a much fuzzier boundary than the start of the Silver Age), and finishes his series with several less serious suggestions. Among them: Flash #220 (1973), the return of Turtle Man, 17 years after he first appeared in…Showcase #4.

Critique

Profzoom has launched a series of Flash: Rebirth Annotations.

Pete’s Rambling Observations suggests that Wally’s kids are “Ewoks on steroids”

Read/RANT considers How Many Green Arrows (or Flashes) is Too Many?

The Weekly Crisis’ Moments of the Week include several “anti-moments” from Flash: Rebirth #2.

Interview

Newsarama interviews Geoff Johns about his 10-year run on JSA and Justice Society of America.

4 Responses to “Speed Reading: Covers, Talking Costumes and Ewoks on Steroids”

  1. Mo says:

    The Rebirth cover should have been higher on that list, IMO.

  2. Lia says:

    I just got freaked out when that suit was crying and Barry was shaking its hand. Looks like some of the Rogues aren’t the only people in Central City who take the train to Crazytown ;)

  3. Kelson says:

    Hey, Crazytown’s only two stops from Central City station!

  4. Lia says:

    That explains a LOT.

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