Speed Force

The Indigo Tribe has concluded its week-long event looking back at Green Lantern: Circle of Fire with a team of guest bloggers (including myself).

Here’s the complete list:

• Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #1 – Liquidcross (The Indigo Tribe)
• Green Lantern and Adam Strange by Kelson Vibber (Speed Force)
• Green Lantern and the Atom – Frank Lee Delano (Power of the Atom)
• Green Lantern and Green Lantern – Liquidcross (The Indigo Tribe)
• Green Lantern and Firestorm the Nuclear Man – The Irredeemable Shag (Firestorm Fan, with a second feature on his own blog).
• Green Lantern and Power Girl – Michael Bailey (Fortress of Baileytude)
• Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #2 – Liquidcross (The Indigo Tribe)

My review covered the team-up between Adam Strange and Green Lightning, a speedster from the future who is a descendant of both the Rayner and West families, who has inherited speed and the Green Lantern ring but can only use one power each day.

Some weekend linkblogging…

Flash & other speedsters

• 5 Goofiest Moments in Flash #122-126 (CSBG)
• Michael Rosenbaum on returning to the Flash for Justice League: Doom (World’s Finest)
• Why Quicksilver is so cranky (Gentlemen of Leisure)
• Joe Giella Flash commission at TRKA
• Very, very rough Captain Cold Timeline at TRKA
• DCU Classics Contest: White Lantern Flash and Reverse Flash at The Fastest Fan Alive

As always, be sure to check Fastest Fan Alive and The Rogues Kick Ass for collectibles and Rogues posts.

More comics

• Justice League stickers (Firestorm Fan)
• On the validity of criticism (GUTTERSNIPER)
• Six degrees of Superman: mapping the connections of the New 52 (Robot 6/Grumpy Old Fan)
• DC January sales analysis at The Beat
• Comics You Should Own: Planetary (CSBG)
• What went wrong with Comic-Con registration today from a technical perspective (at my other blog, K-Squared Ramblings)

Check out our article on the Flash exclusive figure packaged with Justice League: Doom, now in stores. Devin has updated the post with photos of the actual figure as shipped.

Weekend linkblogging.

Flash Links

• DC Comics Reboot Review: The Flash (Three If By Space)
• Steampunk Captain Cold, Grodd & Flash (Speed Force Wayback Wednesday)
• Wally West and Linda Park in Super-Critique’s series on cute comic couples
• That F’ing Monkey interviews John Sazaklis, writer of DC Super-Pets books including Salamander Smackdown (featuring the Flash’s pet turtle, the Terrific Whatzit)
• Art process: Flash #6 (Francis Manapul)
• The Flash 6 reviewed at Retcon Punch
• Speedjumping back into The Flash (Comics Vanguard)
• Review: The Flash #6 at CBR
• Flash #6 Review at IGN
• Make it So: Green Lantern & Flash – Together Again For the First Time! (Panels on Pages)
• Jay Garrick by Yildiray Cinar

And don’t forget tons of stuff at Fastest Fan Alive and The Rogues Kick Ass.

More Comics Links

• Review: Justice League Doom Blu-Ray at DVDs Worth Watching (Comics Worth Reading)
• 5 reasons to worry about comics that aren’t piracy (The Comics Reporter)
• No, It’s Not Equal – CSBG on the difference between male and female objectification in comics.
• State of the Comics Industry by Comics Beat
• How many pages of a digital comic get read at one sitting? (Comics Beat)
• Fan Art: Comics Characters and Music Album Covers (CSBG’s The Line It Is Drawn)
• Mark Waid & Truly Digital Comics experiments at Media Commons
• Is there really a public domain anymore? Comics Worth Reading considers the implications of ERB’s suit against Dynamite over comics based on the public-domain John Carter of Mars novels. (NSFW images from the Dynamite covers)
• Selling a comic collection by 365 Days of Comics. Some options to consider when you reach the point where you have too many comics. I’m doing the same thing (not my whole collection, though!) for a lot of the same reasons. And I suspect I’m selling them to the same store, since it was The Comic Bug that linked to the article.

Green Lantern blog The Indigo Tribe has recruited a group of comics bloggers to review the chapters of Green Lantern: Circle of Fire, a fifth-week event from 2000 that featured established heroes teaming up with a group of all-new Green Lanterns to face the threat of Oblivion, a new villain who has some strange connection with Kyle Rayner’s past.

I’ll be reviewing Green Lantern/Adam Strange, in which the space-going hero teams up with Green Lightning, a speedster Green Lantern from the future who is a descendant of both Kyle Rayner and Wally West.

The other guest bloggers featured are Frank from The Idol-Head of Diabolu (Green Lantern/The Atom), Shag from Firestorm Fan (Green Lantern/Firestorm), and Michael from The Fortress of Baileytude (Green Lantern/Power Girl).

Read on with Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #1 at The Indigo Tribe!

• Five Goofiest Moments in Flash #127-131 (Comics Should Be Good!)
• OK, Im a week late on this, but Bun Toons takes on Before Watchmen (Ty Templeton’s ART LAND)
• The DC Trade Paperback Timeline from Collected Editions is now available as an ebook
• Character spotlight: The Shade (The Outhousers)
• The 10 Strangest Short-Lived Supervillain Makeovers (IO9)
• Neal Adams & Carmine Infantino Announced as Florida Supercon 2012 Guests of Honor
• Comic Mix reviews Justice League: Doom
• The Line It Is Drawn: After Watchmen (CSBG)
• Science Fiction Needs More Scientist Heroes as opposed to scientist villains (IO9).

• That F’ing Monkey looks back at a piece of Super Friends merchandise in I Slept With the Rogues
• @BitterWallyWest posted a mini-story on Twitter the other day. Fans of the MIA character should check it out.
• News on Brian Buccelato’s creator-owned series, Foster: Foster #2 is on its way later this month, following the same limited, self-distributed run as the first issue. A direct market edition of #1 is on its way as well, and he talks to IGN about the series.
• The creator of Ghost Rider, Gary Friedrich, not only lost a suit to reclaim ownership of the character, but has been ordered to pay Marvel $17,000 for money he’s made using the character over the years (think convention sketches). Steve Niles has set up a donation page to help him. Update: Mark Evanier weighs in on the situation.
• This week’s Wayback Wednesday is a classic Young Justice moment featuring Impulse, Superboy and the Ray. Remember when you comic was canceled?
• Added: 5 goofiest moments in Flash #127-131 at CSBG

• What would you accept to have Wally West back? That F’ing Monkey asks the question.
• That F’ing Monkey finds Flash merchandise on Zazzle
• The Flash 4 Stone Coaster Set by PopCycled on Etsy
• Top 5 Superhero Rogues’ Galleries at Mindhut. Read on to see where they placed the Flash’s enemies.
• Anniversary covers that will never be, in the latest installment of CSBG’s The Line It Is Drawn. You might want to check out their Young Justice #200 cover.
• Five Things the New 52 Did Wrong (and which books are doing it right) at Comicbook.com
• How do you want DC to collect Before Watchmen? Collected Editions considers the possibilities.
• December DC Sales Analysis at The Beat
• Plans to build an NFL stadium in Los Angeles include tearing down half the convention center to make room for the stadium, then building a new wing to make up for it. Keep that in mind in July, when the annual “Let’s move Comic-Con out of San Diego!” conversation starts up again. If this plan gets approved, it’ll take LA out of the running for a few years, but will make it a better option once it’s finished.
• Speaking of LA, you’ve got to love this headline: “Jack Sparrow” pepper-sprayed in Hollywood action figure brawl (LATimes.com)

• The Law of Traffic Congestion, according to “The Flash!” (Planetizen)
• On the Hunt: Finding Back Issues, Then and Now (this week’s Wayback Wednesday here at Speed Force)
• Our Valued Customers: While his friend was about to buy a Flash shirt…
• Our Valued Customers: As his dad picked him up and carried him out of the store…
• This Flash vs. Superman race is so fast, it’s over between two panels. (Single Synapse Theory on JLA #59)
• DC December Sales Analysis at The Beat
• K is for Kid Flash by Mista M (via FFA)
• White Lantern Flash will never defeat the ultimate source of the colour spectrum. (The Rogues Kick Ass)
• Actually, there’s a ton of new stuff at Lia’s The Rogues Kick Ass and at Devin’s Fastest Fan Alive this week.

Some weekend linkblogging…

• The Adventures of Flash and Treebeard at Titanzer. Now, Flash, don’t be hasty.
• The DC Universe Calendar listed Wally West’s birthday as January 16. Update As Lia points out below, today is the Top’s birthday, and Grodd’s birthday was on the 13th.
• HEROES!: FLASHFACTS! #4
• The Flash Noir – 1940s airman-style Flash costume by ChrisBrand (via Geek Tyrant)
• Who is Speed Gordon? (CSBG/Comic Legends Revealed)
• Fusion of physics, comics gives speaker great power, responsibility (appropriately enough, at Cary Bates’ alma mater)
• Celtic Supergirl, Puritan Green Lantern, Cavegirl Squirrel Girl and more (CSBG/The Line, It Is Drawn)
• Update: That F’ing Monkey has started up Flash Friday again, featuring a 70s Flash station wagon and Impulse in Takes from the Brain Jar (Humberto Ramos convention sketch.) Update: Fixed the broken HTML