Speed Force

And now for some silliness. I figure this blog’s target audience is more likely to search for “Flash” or “Barry Allen” or “Wally West” than the actual title of the site, but out of curiosity I searched Google for “speed force.” Here’s what I found on the first page: (more…)

A few time-sensitive bits of news:

Comics Should Be Good will be chatting with former Flash writer Mark Waid next week, and will be asking him questions submitted by fans. Waid, currently the Editor-in-Chief of BOOM! Studios, wrote The Flash through most of the 1990s. Submit your questions by email to bcronin - at - comicbookresources - dot - com by December 9.

Voting is now open for the Flash fan art contest at Comic Bloc. The poll will be open for the next week, closing on December 9.

Finally, Crimson Lightning has launched a new poll for December: Who’s your favorite Rogue? (You can vote from any page on the blog.) He’s also posted the results from the last poll, Who’s your favorite Flash? Voting will be open throughout the month of December.

There’s a whole community of artists who create custom action figures, often by taking a commercially-produced figure and modifying it through sculpture and paint. Sometimes they’ll simply convert it into a character who doesn’t have an official figure yet, but the really interesting ones are those that go off on a tangent and create something new, like this set of Victorian-style Justice Leaguers by Sillof, inspired by the now-classic Gotham by Gaslight.

Setting it in the 1880s puts it a little earlier than JLA: Age of Wonder (which had its own Flash), and while it’s still too early for aviation, the artist “went for the pilot look” with the Flash, as you can see here:

On a not entirely unrelated note, I’ve been re-reading Girl Genius from the beginning. The comic’s authors, Phil and Kaja Foglio, describe it as a “gaslamp fantasy,” or as most people would call it, steampunk.

(This post is brought to you by Google Alerts, bespredell, and the letter G. Image used by permission.)

Collected Editions has spotted the listing for the Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds hardcover, due next August.

Silver Age Comics looks at the second issue of DC: The New Frontier, which spotlights Barry Allen as the Flash.

Now Read This! reviews Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told.

The Daily P.O.P. talks about the state of the Flash over the last few years.

Finally, Comic Bloc’s Pureclint links to three video clips of fan-made fighting games featuring Captain Cold vs. Superman (with cameos by Inertia and the Rogues), multi-colored Flashes battling each other, and Bizarro vs. Superman (with a cameo by Zoom).

Comic Bloc is holding a Flash fan art contest.

Top Cow has a page for their upcoming Velocity series. They’ve also solicited the second issue, which has (IMHO) much better covers. More action girl, less swimsuit model.

Comics Make No Sense looks into how Quicksilver can fly.

The Comic Treadmill discusses Adventure Comics #373-375, including the first appearance of the Tornado Twins Don and Dawn Allen.

The Exponent (Purdue University’s student newspaper) contemplates that age old question, Who would win in a fight, Flash or Green Lantern?

Not directly speedster-related, but the Occasional Superheroine ponders the shift in emphasis from stories to events in comic books since the early 1980s.

Found in a movie theater lobby this weekend:

I’m pretty sure it’s a subtle (in the sense of not having any words on it that I could see, not in the sense of being difficult to miss) ad for the upcoming Disney CGI cartoon, Bolt, but I couldn’t pass up a picture of a giant golden lightning bolt frozen in the lobby. My wife joked that it needed the caption, “Zeus was here.”

Some Flash costumes seen at conventions over the last couple of years.

First, two that I saw at San Diego Comic-Con last year (that’s me posing with the first):

(Originally posted at K-Squared Ramblings)

A bunch more costumes after the cut: (more…)

CBR has an article on DC Universe Online featuring a new screenshot of the Flash (or at least one I hadn’t seen before).

X-Man wants Flash fans to explain the appeal of bringing Barry Back.

Meanwhile, snark has taken over discussion of last week’s fake Flash movie trailer, including Defamer’s Fake ‘Flash’ Teaser Ruins New Comic Franchise Before it Begins, and Blog@Newsarama’s Step away from the Windows Movie Maker. (Defamer also links to another fan trailer, a bit more obvious in that it consists entirely of remixed clips from Bart Allen’s appearances on Smallville.)

Last week I posted a few updates to Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning including Inertia, the Gotham Rogues, and an update to the Cover Variants list showing the final versions of the Rogues’ Revenge covers.

As a reminder, I’m posting on Twitter as SpeedForceOrg.

I’ve seen several mentions today of a supposed teaser trailer for the long-delayed Flash movie — the one that, just a few days ago, we were told had no momentum.

Get the Big Picture has the clip, supposedly recorded on a cell phone during a Watchmen screening, and analyzes why it’s probably not the real deal, but a fan creation. Among other things, the story about how the recording was made just doesn’t add up.

I haven’t watched it with sound yet, but I’m inclined to agree.

Update: Thanks to Brandan, I’ve found a similar post at Slashfilm. No one knows who did make it so far, but it’s obviously not official.

After weeks of waiting, Final Crisis #4 is only two days away. I meant to post this last month, but pushed it off to look up some numbers, and never got around to it. So, before it gets Jossed, here’s how I would open the post-skip-month Final Crisis based on what we saw at the end of issue #3.

(Spoilers for Final Crisis #1-3. I haven’t read Final Crisis: Revelations, so this may contradict or retread a bit.) (more…)