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DC Nation Kickoff – Live at Comic-Con is a post from Speed Force.

Update: Now that the day’s tweets have been imported, here’s my full running commentary on the panel.

• Inkpot award to Bob Wayne #
• SDCC is like “longest Thanksgiving dinner ever” – con staffer #
• Flash:Rebirth – bunch of Flashes behind him on final cover #
• GEOFF JOHNS ON FLASH ONGOING! #
• Some costume changes & a new speedster by end of Flash:Rebirth #
• Sounded like Flash ongoing starts after Blackest Night:Flash. They’re all Geoff Johns-written. #
• Troia, Batman, Hal &…Monel w/ S symbol In JLA. #
• Good Dr. Light vs Black Lantern evil Dr. Light #
• Guessing Batgirl’s ID: Stephanie Brown? DD: “No spoilers here.” #
• DCU panel info is coming fast & furious – hard to keep up #
• Titans’ new leader…let’s just say it’s not Wally as rumored on ComicBloc. #
• GS: WW to renounce Amazons & become more of a super-hero than ever #
• Sterling Gates on Kid Flash series! #
• Rainbow Raider will be a Black Lantern. GJ: “I guess he’ll be the Black & White Raider.” #
• C’mon, random fanboy…wait till you see the new writer’s work before begging Geoff to come back to Teen Titans. #
• Question cosplayer at mike: “I have a question…” #
• DD on renumbering books that have been relaunched: content more important than number on cover, low numbers may bring in more new readers. #
• Geoff Johns: artist lined up for Flash ongoing, can’t talk about it yet. [Edit: GJ adds that he can only say the artist is "awesome."]#
• Fan requests a Snapper Carr & Jimmy Olsen team-up in Brave & the Bold. #

DC Universe at Comic-Con: Big Flash News UPDATED is a post from Speed Force.

3:10:21 PM: Huge applause for Geoff Johns

3:11:21 PM: Plush Dex-Starr red kitty of rage [Edit: Dex-Starr was brought by The Nerdy Bird]

3:13:05 PM: Full of rage because of crappy con food! [Edit: DD came out wearing about 10 layers of T-shirts, including all the Lantern Corps, and asked the audience to shout out why they should get the red lantern shirt, the orange lantern shirt ("I want that shirt!" was the winner there), etc.]

3:21:03 PM: Fan: like seeing characters reacting to other chars’ deaths.

3:23:53 PM: DD: What did you like abt LO3W5? Fan: it finally came out.

3:26:47 PM: JR: JLA Cry for Justice will have major implications for JLA & America

3:30:51 PM: Black Lantern Billy Mays asks about Damian, West kids, etc. as new gen of heroes. DD says they’re really trying to work in new chars

3:32:17 PM: Fan: Will there be white lanterns who show up and save the day? Other fan: why does it always have to be black vs white?

3:33:27 PM: Let Hourman ask his question, he’s running out of time!

3:38:21 PM: Dancing Sinestro?!?

3:40:24 PM: The bit about new chars earlier includes, ex. the rainbow lantern corps, the New Krypton chars, etc.

3:42:47 PM: Ambush Bug #6 – “We got so awesome that we ran out of things to make fun of” Ian Sattler. DD real answer: too busy, in the works

3:44:46 PM: Geoff Johns: it’s not a trinity, it’s a pentagram (Supes, Bats, WW, GL, Flash)

3:45:57 PM: DD: Kids’ books have to read as kids’ books, not what adults remember from 60s

3:47:26 PM: GJ: will explore time, nature of Speed Force, all speedsters & what’s beyond in Flash:Rebirth

3:48:48 PM: Ravager asks: w/o Trigon, what’s Raven’s role? DD: will be involved in TEEN Titans

3:49:46 PM: GJ: Blackest Night: Flash will explain Captain Boomerang Jr

3:51:02 PM: GJ: entire story of Flash: Rebirth is in the Flash Museum at the beginning

3:53:44 PM: #BlackestNight 3: who do you want to come back? Ted Kord, Pa Kent, Max Lord…Jesus…Michael Jackson…

3:55:03 PM: And that’s it!

DC Nation at Comic-Con is a post from Speed Force.

2:21:11 PM: Geoff Johns & Scott Kolins are doing Blackest Night: Flash!

2:30:02 PM: “Black Lantern Billy Mays here.”

2:31:53 PM: Barry’s back for good. BN: Flash stars Barry, Wally & lots of dead Rogues. BN takes place after Rebirth

2:32:39 PM: Dex-star vs Krypto!

2:34:27 PM: How Geoff would write Batman: “I’d probably just give him a yellow ring”

2:36:21 PM: Geoff “not leaving Green Lantern anytime soon.”

2:38:53 PM: Fan: Kyle as artist good focus for GL power, so why Hal? GJ: Focus is on overcoming fear

2:39:54 PM: Cruddy twitter connection might inspire arrival of a red ring… grrr…

2:42:04 PM: Geoff on Blackest Night: of COURSE it’s violent! The dead are rising from their graves!

2:43:05 PM: Trade-waiter avoiding Blackest Night spoilers. Geoff: “Wrong panel”

2:48:18 PM: Re: movies, Geoff is concentrating on Flash right now

2:49:46 PM: Geoff on internships: most stress was lunch-got chewed out once by exec for not remembering mango salsa.

3:01:11 PM: Great story abt trashing Richard Donner’s car SPECTACULARLY as an intern! Geoff Johns

3:02:40 PM: Fan asked abt Kid Flash or expander Flash ongoings…Geoff almost answered but Eddie Berganza stopped him. “8-ball is in your favor”

3:07:42 PM: Make Flash appealing to wider audience: everyone’s caught up in speed these days. Build on that.

3:10:55 PM: What’s going on w/ Barry will become clear in Flash:Rebirth #4-5

3:20:18 PM: Fan won $40 on a bet b/c Geoff couldn’t answer a spoilery question

3:21:17 PM: Oh, NOW the phone has a good signal, after I walk out of the room

3:22:06 PM: Oh, yeah, origin of Dex-star has been planned.

Geoff Johns Spotlight at Comic-Con is a post from Speed Force.

6:19:21 PM: Kamandi makes me want to re-read Tellos.

6:20:35 PM: I love the giant splash page on Metamorpho! (And the joke about a subscription to Element Dog!)

6:23:15 PM: That’s an awful lot of typos in Teen Titans for a one page story.

6:25:43 PM: It must suck to have only one soldier to defend your capital city.

6:29:04 PM: When I think “Wonder Woman,” I always think of a talking, glowing fish for a sidekick. (Okay, maybe not.)

6:33:27 PM: Whoa, awkward moment for Barry, Iris and Barry!

6:34:26 PM: The different coloring techniques stand out more this week, too.

6:35:49 PM: I can see a paradox brewin’, though.

6:36:57 PM: Hah! “Stately Blood Manor.”

6:41:47 PM: The Demon and the Cat. Yes, Demon and the Cat. One is a burglar, the other’s a prat.

6:45:55 PM: Hey, kids! Learn Hawkman’s secret sign language! You too can join the Junior JSA!

Quick Thoughts: Wednesday Comics #2 is a post from Speed Force.

7:24:19 PM: And no, I didn’t manage to get out to the Earth-2 grand opening today.

7:32:12 PM: Let’s see about photos. Here’s a preview of something I plan to write up soon http://twitpic.com/7ch5u

7:35:02 PM: Okay, so the post is there but it’s empty. And there’s no URL for it. Better to find out now than during SDCC. Maybe I can fix/report it.

7:36:08 PM: Oh. Not good. Now there are two post, both empty, both unlinkable.

7:38:26 PM: @SpeedsterSite Jay’s hair was originally black, then retconned to brown. The wrong color is the only thing I don’t like about this statue.

7:39:56 PM: Great, the server crashed while I was trying to test.

7:47:36 PM: @jcbaggee It’s worse than that: I’m the admin on that server. Well, there’s an upgrade planned.

7:49:30 PM: Okay, now I’ve got 2 empty posts and 1 that looks like exactly what it’s supposed to do.

7:52:17 PM: I think it just doesn’t work well with WP-Super Cache, Let’s see how it works if I disable that.

7:52:59 PM: @jcbaggee On the plus side, it DID recover automatically.

7:55:25 PM: It’s supposedly set to check every 2 minutes once it starts, but hasn’t picked anything up in 15 min

7:59:12 PM: OK, it’s picked up the missing tweets. I wonder why the delay?

8:00:39 PM: Well, it mostly works. I’ll have to test it again and see whether disabling the cache helps with starting. For now, signing off.

Notes: The post above was made using the WordPress plugin Twitter LiveBlog. It follows your Twitter feed looking for a signal (“//NLB//” for “New Live Blog” followed by a title), then creates a blog post and starts updating it with your tweets until you send the closing signal (“//ELB//” for “End Live Blog”)

The first time I tested it, I had WP-Super-Cache enabled, and ended up with two empty posts with the right title, but no usable URL, then the expected post. The second time, I tried it with WP-Super-Cache disabled, and it worked as expected. (That post was a lot shorter and didn’t have any conversations or links, so I deleted it.) Except that it doesn’t seem to be checking as often as it’s set for. I don’t think I’ve got enough plugins/apps/etc. on here to use up the Twitter API limits, but it’s definitely something I’ll be looking into.

Testing Liveblogging is a post from Speed Force.