Speed Force

And some more weekend linkblogging! The final installment of our DC Relaunch reactions will be up this afternoon.

Flash

• Urban Jungle: ZOOM! (webcomic)
• Captain Cold Cosplay (via TRKA)
• Rainbow Raider Responds by Adam Withers (TRKA)
• Piper and Trickster by Dave Grote, Jr. (TRKA)
• Flash Motorcycle Jacket (FFA)
• 1987 Flash Promotional Poster at Very Fine/Near Mint
• How to Survive Using the Power of SuperSpeed – Part 2 at All About the Flash

Other

• Silver Age Remix: Superman – Grounded (fan art/humor)
• Mark Waid at Long Beach Comic Con in October
• DC April Sales Analysis at The Beat
• CSBG spotlights Titans Tower

Some weekend linkblogging with articles on the DC Relaunch.

• Bully’s DC Reboot (humor)
• The Land of Canceled Heroes (Bully again)
• Time and Time Again The Complete History of DC’s Retcons and Reboots
• The Line It Is Drawn #44: OUR DC Number Ones! Damian as Batman! Flash as a race car driver! Goth Supergirl! Darkseid with an Afro! (CSBG)
• Reboot wishlist (Comics Alliance)
• The DC Relaunch Deadpool (no, not that Deadpool) at Bleeding Cool
• Batgirl/Oracle
  • OP/ED: Oracle Is Stronger Than Batgirl Will Ever Be (Jill Pantozzi)
  • Batgirl Triumphant: The Price of Restoring DC Comics’ Disabled Heroine (Comics Alliance)
  • Gail, Jill and Babs: A Conversation about Batgirl & Oracle
  • Oracle Create-a-thon
  • The Only Answer (The Gutters) – a surprisingly touching installment from a webcomic that usually personifies snark..
• Trade-Waiting at the End of the Universe by Collected Editions
• When Words Collide: The First 15 – A Look at the New DCU – Comic Book Resources
• An interesting idea about Superman and Wonder Woman at Written World
• Agent of S.T.Y.L.E.: The Fashion of the DCnU! Part 1
• The New DC Universe: The M.I.A. List at Geekscape and Those 52 DC #1s, and who’s missing at Bleeding Cool
• Comics Nexus’ picks for the new DCU
• Kids These Days – Brett Booth talks about the redesigned Teen Titans costumes
• DCnU or DC no? (Robot6)
• New Firestorm: What do we know? at Firestorm Fan
• #1 Could Be the Loneliest Number (Tilting at Windmills) – What the reboot means to retailers (via The Beat)
• A Creator-Owned Call to Arms (Steve Niles) – what the DC relaunch could mean for artists and writers. (via The Beat)
• Comics Worth Reading’s New DC Pull List

At Heroes*Con, Ken O of That F’ing Monkey interviewed Scott Kolins, the writer/artist of Flashpoint; Citizen Cold. Kolins talked how he ended up tweaking the various characters and their looks, including a funny story about the Weather Wizard:

I got to do something that Geoff Johns laughed about; I gave Weather Wizard that goatee. It’s a reference to when we had originally changed his costume in the Flash books years ago and made his pattern green with yellow stripes on it. At that time when I did sketches for him to show DC what we wanted to do I had given him facial hair; at that point it was a handle bar mustache. Geoff was like, “This looks great…lose the handlebar mustache.” So this time when he saw the goatee he was like, “All right, fine. You finally get to put it on him.”

He also mentions that he has his next project already lined up. It’s not one of the 52 relaunched books for Septemeber, so presumably we’ll see something from Kolins’ pen launching in the months to come.

There’s a lot more. Read the whole interview at That F’ing Monkey.

Our series reacting to DC’s September relaunch is almost complete. So far we’ve covered the Justice League, Green Lantern, Batman, Dark and Teen books. This time around we’re looking at the “edge” series.

Stormwatch · Blackhawks · Sgt. Rock and the Men of War · All-Star Western · Deathstroke · Grifter · OMAC · Suicide Squad · Blue Beetle

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Like the first issue, Flashpoint #2 has sold out at the distributor. A second printing is coming in July. (The second printing of Flashpoint #1 arrives this coming Wednesday.

Diamond has released their sales rankings for May. Flashpoint #1 was the #2 comic for the month by unites sold (behind Marvel’s Fear Itself), while The Flash #12 pulled in a respectable 15th place. Number estimates will no doubt be up soon.

We continue our series reacting to DC’s September relaunch. Previously we’ve covered the Justice League, Green Lantern, Batman and Dark titles. Now we look at the Teen Titans, Legion and other young heroes.

Legion of Super-Heroes · Legion Lost · Teen Titans · Static Shock · Hawk & Dove

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 Citizen Cold #1 is the first in a three-issue Flashpoint series, written and drawn by longtime Flash artist Scott Kolins. I’m happy to report that it doesn’t disappoint, finding it a well-written and fun story and looking forward to the future issues.

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Continuing our series reacting to the news of DC’s September relaunch. Previously we’ve looked at the Justice League, and Green Lantern and Batman books. Now we look at DC’s attempt to reclaim its characters from Vertigo.

Justice League Dark · Demon Knights · Swamp Thing · Animal Man by Jeff Lemire · Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE · Voodoo · I, Vampire · Resurrection Man

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Bleeding Cool has what appears to be the full solicitation text for the 52 DC Comics titles launching in September, including The Flash.

THE FLASH #1

Written by FRANCIS MANAPUL and BRIAN BUCCELLATO
Art and cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL
Variant cover by IVAN REIS and TIM TOWNSEND
On sale SEPTEMBER 28 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

The Fastest Man Alive returns to his own monthly series from the writer/artist team of Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato! The Flash knows he can’t be everywhere at once, but what happens when he faces an all-new villain who really can! As if that’s not bad enough, this villain is a close friend!

What’s New compared to the first announcement? The release date, the variant cover credit, and the news that the new villain is a close friend. Since coming back from the dead in Flash: Rebirth, Barry doesn’t seem to have any close friends outside the super-hero community, but who knows what’s been changed in the wake of Flashpoint. Could this be a returning character or a new one?

Let the speculation begin!

Update (Monday): DC’s official solictations confirm the additional details.

Continuing our series reacting to the news of DC’s September relaunch. Previously we’ve looked at the Justice League and Green Lantern books. This time: Gotham City!

Batman · Detective Comics · Batman and Robin · The Dark Knight · Batwoman · Catwoman · Birds of Prey · Batgirl · Nightwing · Red Hood and the Outlaws · Batwing

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