Some linkblogging catch-up. Things are going to be a bit slow since the software I was using to build the round-ups doesn’t work anymore, and I’m going to have clean up the lists more-or-less manually until I have time to write something that will clean it up automatically.
First the Flashy links.
- Flash #0 review at Comic Book and Movie Reviews
- The Culture Cast reviews The Flash #0
- Easter eggs in Flash #1 (1987) in last week’s Comic Book Legends Revealed at CSBG
- The Dark Flash (Walter West) makes Newsarama’s top 10 grim and gritty superhero makeovers (via @CraigRMacDonald)
- This Month in DC History: Barry Allen and Iris
- Wednesday Comics vs. The New 52: The Flash (Every Day is Like Wednesday)
- Dan DiDio talks Stephanie Brown, Wally West and Donna Troy at Newsarama
Other comics/fandom links
- Francis Manapul’s Amethyst variant cover for Sword of Sorcery #2 (CBR)
- Art: Saturday Morning in Front of La Salle De Justice (Firestorm Fan)
- DC Comics August sales analysis at The Beat
- Marvel in the bubble of 1992 (TCJ excerpt from Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story and Peter David on the state of the comics industry in 1998. The more things change…
- Interesting thoughts on the Kickstarter audience from Ryan Browne (via @ComicsAlliance)
- SDCC vs. NYCC Attendance comparison by Alex Zalben
- Noblemania: The only two surviving letters written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger (via The Beat)
- Thrillbent is back, with more “Insufferable” and a new series called “Pax Arena”
- Speed Force’s own Greg Elias reviews Wonder Woman: The Twelve Labors at Collected Editions
- Wow, the effort some people will put in to avoid Spoilers…. Shortpacked: We’ll have to revisit this in January
- New DC Comics fan blog: Captain Carrot’s Burrow (via @FirestormFan)
- Babylon 5 and the rise of internet fandom
Other stuff:
- I got to see Endeavour during the space shuttle’s trip through Los Angeles.
- What does it mean to be entitled to your opinion? (via @laura_hudson)
- Recommended: This is True, a weird-news newsletter. I’ve been a subscriber for years. It’s often funny and always thought-provoking.
Those shots of the shuttle made my eyes tear up. I vividly recall watching the cast of Star Trek TOS lined up for a photo shoot when they first rolled out The Enterprise for public view. It was amazing. Sick at heart to see our space program reduced now after the flare of anticipation and pride back then when the possibilities for manned space exploration seemed endless.