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- Argh! http://tvtropes.org ATE MY BRAIN! AGAIN! #
- I have finished re-reading ALL of Girl Genius from the beginning! #
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Superheroes-R-Us has been posting clips from the 1968 record album, Songs and Stories About the Justice League, including the album’s Flash story: “The Three Faces of Mr. Big.”
Ethan Van Sciver’s second Your Time Is Now Mine column is up. No Flash news, just ramblings. Meanwhile, the site talks to Geoff Johns about Superman: Secret Origin.
This week’s Heroes graphic novel, #113: “The Caged Bird” begins the origin story of the show’s morally gray speedster, Daphne Millbrook. (I am waaay behind on these. I’ve read a few here and there, but I really left off somewhere around the start of season 2.)
GamePro is not impressed by the “heroic brutalities” in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, singling out the Flash’s tornado slam to represent them in the 12 Lamest Fatalities in fighting games.
In last week’s Trinity #25, a surprise guest star showed up: Barry Allen. Morgaine Le Fay and Enigma have altered history so that Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman never existed. In this timeline, the Justice Society International became a force that took protecting the world too far.
Spoilers for Trinity #25: (more…)
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Comic Coverage looks at an old letters column in which a fan confesses her crush on Kid Flash.
Speaking of letters colums, Clandestine Critic talks about comic shops, including one that was once co-owned by Paul Gambacinni, the radio personality and former Flash letter writer who inspired the Rogues’ tailor, Paul Gambi.
The Continuity Blog looks at Flash #231–246.
Variety reviews Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
The Dork Review suggests collecting Cary Bates’ run on The Flash in two volumes: The Murder of Iris Allen (Flash #275, #281–284, #321–326) and The Trial of the Flash (Flash #340-350). The first volume would feature Iris’ murder and Barry’s subsequent battles with Professor Zoom, including the one years later that would lead to the villain’s death.
More reviews of this week’s Flash #246 at Men in Tights and Comix 411.
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).
New feature: a digest of my Twitter posts for the week.
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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.
To keep the lengths of time in perspective, I’ve put together this timeline from the end of Geoff Johns’ well-regarded run on The Flash through several relaunches and two Crises to next year’s Flash: Rebirth. I’ve taken the cover dates from the GCD and shifted them back two months, since that seems to track with the release dates that I remember.
| Dates | Span | Issues | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2005 | Flash #225 | Geoff Johns’ last issue. | ||
| September 2005–January 2006 | 5 months | Flash #226–230 | Wrap up Wally (Cavalieri w/Lightle) | |
| February–May 2006 | 4 months | No Flash Comics | ||
| June 2006–January 2007 | 8 months | Flash: TFMA #1–8 | Bart as the main Flash (Bilson & De Meo) | |
| February–June 2007 | 5 months | Flash: TFMA | Wrap up Bart (Guggenheim) | |
| July 2007 | 1 month | All-Flash | Wrap up loose ends from “Full Throttle” | |
| August 2007–August 2008 | 13 months | Flash #231–243 | Wally & the Flash Family (Waid, Peyer w/Champagne) | |
| September–December 2008 | 4 months | Flash #244–247 | Wrap up Wally Again (Burnett) | |
| January–March 2009 | 3 months | No Flash Comics | ||
| April–September(?) 2009 | 6 months | Flash: Rebirth | ||
So from the point DC essentially gave up on Wally’s series (September 2005) to the point that DC will stake everything on a relaunch with Barry (April 2009, assuming it doesn’t get delayed) we’re looking at 3½ years. The longest run of a series during that time would be All-Flash with Flash #231–347 — just 1½ years, of which barely one year focused heavily on Iris and Jai West. (Alan Burnett or his editor shoved the kids off to the side pretty quickly when he came on board to do the wrap-up.)
Fellow Flash blog Crimson Lightning has returned to a regular update schedule, including the latest in its series reviewing each episode of the 1990 Flash TV Series: “Fast Forward.”
Newsarama’s Grumpy Old Fan contemplates what “the most definitive” version of a character means.
More Mortal Kombat vs DCU trailers, including video of Flash vs. Scorpion. Something must be funky about the player CBR uses, because this is the second time they’ve posted video clips on MKvDC that I couldn’t get to play. YMMV.
This Week in Geek interviews Brea Grant (via @breagrant)
And speeking of geeks, check out the 56 Geeks Project (via Once Upon a Geek)