March 21, 2010
Well, we won’t be getting that Barry Allen vs. Wally West battle after all. While Wally outraced Sinestro 57% to 43% in Silver Age Round 1, the Hulk smashed Barry Allen 52% to 48%. Meanwhile, over in the modern age region, Bart Allen was knocked out of the running by Starman at 55% to 45%.
Flash Wally West moves on to battle the Hulk. Can he avenge his former mentor? Vote in round 2 of the CSBG DC/Marvel character tournament!
March 20, 2010
Some weekend linkblogging:
Francis Manapul has been nominated for a Shuster Award. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Glee. Rather, it’s the Joe Shuster Awards recognizing Canadian comics creators. Manapul was nominated for his work on Adventure Comics and Superman/Batman last year.
Ben Morse at the Cool Kids Table posts photos and commentary on his five favorite Flash figures.
Comic Critics: In This Issue, a Titan Dies! – This webcomic is absolutely 100% true!
Fan Art
You’ve probably seen that image of Batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber by now, right? ComicMix has identified the artist as Andrew Zubko.
Comics All Too Real specializes in merging the fictional and real worlds, including: The Flash by Adobe. They’ve also got a great Flash birthday cake.
Zero Lives draws *ahem* Elementary Heroes. This one’s for the chemistry geeks. And Mr. Element, of course! (via Comics Alliance)
March 19, 2010
Collider reports from Showest that Warner Bros. plans to use DC superheroes as the new “tent pole” big-event movies, taking the place the Harry Potter films have had for the past decade. Word is that the Flash is up next after Green Lantern, aiming for a 2012 release.
Greg Berlanti, recently rumored to be in the running for director, ducked the question when asked about the film.
Also of interest: Warner Bros. plans to release all of their tentpoles in 3D. I’m not sure how effective 3-D would be for the Flash or his usual Rogues Gallery, but it has some interesting possibilities if they toss in a brief fight with the Folded Man.
The project has been in development hell for years (Warner Bros. announced it in 2004), but with the new DC Entertainment organization, we’re finally starting to see movement.
(via It’s a Dan’s World, SpeedsterSite, and ComicsBlips)
DC has posted their Brightest Day solicitations, including Flash #3.
The Flash #3
It may be BRIGHTEST DAY, but when a mysterious group of so-called heroes turns up, another Rogue ends up dead. Plus, the mystery deepens as The Flash witness another murder — his own!
On sale JUNE 9 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by GEOFF JOHNS • Art and cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL • 1:10 variant cover by GREG HORN
Notes: It looks like they’re going to keep going with the variant covers for a while. The “solve your own murder” reminds me of “Emergency Stop,” the first story in Grant Morrison and Mark Millar’s brief run on the book. in the late 1990s.
Also, Jesse Quick gets a cover spot in a JLA/JSA crossover, and Lobo fights Atrocitus in Green Lantern.
On another note…
Don’t forget the Design Your Own Flash Ring Contest is still running through April 26!
Comics Should Be Good is running a DC/Marvel Character Tournament. Round 1 of voting is open now for the following regions based on characters’ first appearances:
We could theoretically see Barry against Wally in round 2, depending on how well Barry does against the Hulk and Wally does against Sinestro. Though I suspect due to Blackest Night, Sinestro’s popularity is probably at an all-time high right now.
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Well, I’ve got a hotel room for Comic-Con International. It wasn’t one of my first few choices — it wasn’t even one of the 12 I submitted — but it’s at least in the downtown area, which is better than a lot of people got.
I’ve written up the whole thing at K-Squared Ramblings, but here’s the capsule summary: The initial process of submitting a request through the website went amazingly smoothly. I was done in five minutes. Then it was eight hours of waiting, wondering whether they’d lost the request, or I’d mistyped my email address, or it had gotten blocked as spam, or something.
The one thing that I really wish I’d gotten was a confirmation for the request itself. Even if it was just “You’re number 4,321 in line,” at least I could have been sure that I was in line. That would have saved a lot of anxiety. And a record of exactly what I’d submitted wouldn’t have hurt, either. (Next time I may take a screenshot.)
March 18, 2010
DC has posted an image of Tony Harris’ alternate cover for The Flash #1, coming April 14.
Interestingly, it was a tweet by the artist that first alerted this site to the Flash Secret Files and Origins book coming out in two weeks.
March 17, 2010
Hotel reservations for Comic-Con International open tomorrow. I’ve posted some thoughts on the new procedure over at K-Squared Ramblings.
We’ll see how it actually works tomorrow.
I’ve been slowly scanning my pre-digital photos, and stumbled across these pictures I’d taken of my DC Direct (and a few other) action figures around 2000 or so.
I had fun coming up with a situation that could combine the New Teen Titans, Flash, and Sandman figures.
In retrospect, I really wish I’d used a camera that had a little depth of field. I think it may have been fixed-focus as well.
March 16, 2010
Looks like the Flash will be wearing green — or at least a cover with the word “Green” on the front — for St. Patrick’s Day.
Green Arrow #31
“The Fall of Green Arrow” begins here! Spinning out of the shocking events of JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE and JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE RISE AND FALL SPECIAL #1 comes the destruction of Green Arrow. As Oliver Queens inner turmoil and guilt overwhelms him, secrets are revealed that will tear him asunder. What will the Emerald Archer reveal to the world that will change his life and the lives of the people around him forever? And why are Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Barry Allen (The Flash) and the rest of the Justice League hunting him?
32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by J.T. KRUL
Art by DIOGENES NEVES
Cover by MAURO CASCIOLI
1:25 variant cover by MIKE MAYHEW
Titans #23
Spotlight on Red Arrow! As Roy Harper lies in critical condition after the events of JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE #5, his fever dreams show him the perfect future life he wants for the Titans. Unfortunately for him, its a life the Titans will never see.
32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by EDDIE BERGANZA
Art and cover by ANGEL UNZUETA
DC has a 5-page preview online.
