Speed Force

Inspired by last week’s one-line Flashpoint teasers, @Speedstersite started posting jokes marked #FakeFLASHPOINTTeaser on Twitter. Others joined in.

Here are some of my favorites:

• SpeedsterSite: Turns out, hard water is just ice, nothing more.
• SpeedsterSite: He absolutely refused to see Zorro that night
• collecteditions: No one escaped the Manhunters.
• collecteditions: He never much liked fish; she never much liked Curry.
• collecteditions: The Graysons never worked without a net.
• ryanoneil: Jor-El wasn’t actually a rocket scientist.
• DougG_ATL: Hippolyta is a terrible sculptor
• DougG_ATL: Superboy Prime, try this Xanax.
• TheLastIslander: Bart Allen is secretly the time trapper. (More of a fake spoiler than a fake teaser, but at this point, who hasn’t been the Time Trapper?)
• BlueTyson This story is actually good! (Ouch!)
• JCorduroy Greedo shot first. (So that explains it!)

My own humble contributions:

• He never lost his eye.
• He would’ve gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those darn kids.
• They caught the radioactive spider before it could bite anyone.
• Nephew? What nephew?

You can find the rest on Twitter at the #FakeFLASHPOINTTeaser tag.

But Twitter isn’t the only place people were doing this. Over at the CBR forums, posters were making their own banners in the same spirit.

• Walking to lunch. The Bat-Ice Cream Truck just drove by again. #
• Saturday at Comic-Con is already at 70% capacity. I’m starting to believe the show will sell out by New Year’s. # (Tuesday)
• So, Connor’s back with the Teen Titans. Can Bart be far behind? #
• Busy…going to have to pick up new comics tomorrow. I’d save them until next week, but one of them is The Unknown. #
• Last month I ran a FB poll on whether DC should postpone BN:Flash until Rebirth wraps. It was 50/50. The results might be different now… #
• Really? Blackest Night is beating Scott Pilgrim in the Limited Series/OGN poll? Why are they the same category, anyway? #
• Saturday at Comic-Con sold out last night. Plenty of tickets left for the rest of the weekend, though. # (Friday morning)
• I think I’ll just try to relax & take in this ocean view, & catch up on Flash news later. (You go away for one Xmas party…) #

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• Superboy Prime vs. Dan Didio (via @DC_NATION) – Okaaay… #
• Wow! Complete Farscape for $58! – That’s even better than the ultracheap $70 I spent last month! (via @BeaucoupKevin) #
• Cool! Long Beach Comic Con is returning next year: October 29-31, 2010 & something on Feb 20. #
• At lunch. Counter is calling for Order 66. #
• A humorous take on The Return of Bruce Wayne (announced Wednesday) from @TimeLostBatman #FollowFriday #
• How have I managed not to read anything about Joe the Barbarian until now? #

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• Somehow I don’t think this guy is taking the Renaissance Faire entirely seriously. #
• Odd: I saw the typo “Batman: Unsenn” and my brain decided it was a misspelling of Unsinn, German for Nonsense, rather than Unseen. #
• Wow, these sales figures for DC are depressing. #
• FlashForward continues to take 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Ah, well. Better than the other way around. #
• Blackest Night: Flash – @GeoffJohns0 says: “Zombie gorillas are hard to beat, but next issue has something even better.” #
• Remember that Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody video? They’re official at @MuppetsStudio #FollowFriday #
• Ack! Just saw someone use “pre-Crisis” to refer to pre-INFINITE Crisis! I need a lawn ASAP so I can start yelling at kids to stay off it! #
• Archive binges were a lot easier when webcomics hadn’t been around so long… #
• FlashForward TV schedule explained. #

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• Awesome! Geoff Johns turned up on my “What Zoom did to Barry” thread! (Spoilers for Flash: Rebirth #5) #
• New rule: if your site opens a pop-up window and asks me to confirm when I try to close it, I’m not going to link to it. Here’s why. #
• Updated the Wally West Costume Comparison (spoilers for Rebirth #5) with the JLU costume. #
• Do we really need a warning label for this? #
• Site updates this weekend: Justice League (Animated) Flash, added Flash: Rebirth #5 to Variant Covers and Cover Homages.

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Flash: Rebirth

• Now that we know for sure Flash: Rebirth will arrive Wednesday, people are searching for Flash: Rebirth #6. (Still Dec. 23.) # (Monday)
• The more I think about it, I’m not sure Wally’s new costume will appear tomorrow. In the middle of a battle? Doesn’t seem like a priority. # (Tuesday)
• That said, both the classic Kid Flash costume and first appearance of the Speed Force costume were roughly instantaneous, so who knows? #
• Sometimes, living in the westernmost timezone in the continental US is annoying. My local comic store isn’t even open yet. # (Wednesday)
• Could be worse. I could be in Alaska or Hawaii. (Not that I’d mind *being* in Hawaii.) Or some other country that has to wait for imports. #
• OK. Comic store opens at 11, and I’m taking lunch early. I should probably grab a snack for mid-afternoon. #
• Yes, Flash: Rebirth #5 is really out! Also bought: Farscape, Dr. Horrible. #
• Another week ends without new delays. Flash: Rebirth #6 is still listed for Dec. 23 on DC’s website. # (Friday)

Movies and TV

• Listening to Dark City soundtrack while scanning a roll of old photos. Just picked up a photo of the sign for Shell Beach. #
• New Global Frequency adaptation? Could be cool. The nifty phones (outpaced by the iPhone) were never the point anyway. #
• The real question is, can they still get Michelle Forbes to play Miranda Zero? #
• Watching Red Sonja. Why is there Kryptonite in this movie? #
• Hey look, it’s not-Conan! But I think they filmed a scene for Conan the Destroyer in the same spot. #

Also, check out the Star Wars Band Names meme from Saturday.

Other Stuff

• Walter West, the Dark Flash, has a cameo in Adventure Comics #4. #
• Cool: Absolute Planetary vol.2 & reprint of vol.1 coming next July! #
• Not sure it’s appropriate for #FollowFriday, but I’ve built a list of the Flash/Kid Flash creative team: @SpeedForceOrg/Flash-Creative-Team. #
• Also, a list of past & present Flash writers & artists on Twitter: @SpeedForceOrg/All-Flash. #FollowFriday(ish) #

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• Even though I haven’t been bowled over by Flash: Rebirth so far, $13.59 for the hardcover is tempting. #
• Bought this week: Unwritten, Farscape: D’Argo’s Trial. I’m down to 7 regular books per month now, so 2-book weeks are common. #
• First thought on Dollhouse cancellation: after only 4 episodes? Then remembered this is Fox. That’s practically generous. #
• Are there any Blackest Night-related stories titled “Raise the Red Lantern?” #
• If you get email claiming to be a fix for Conficker from Microsoft, DON’T INSTALL IT. They do NOT send patches by email. #
• A week with no delays on Flash: Rebirth! #5 is still lined up for Wednesday, and #6 still says Dec. 23. #

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Highlights from the week’s Twitter activity:

Search Subjects

• Someone searched for a *review* of Flash: Rebirth #5. Talk about overly optimistic. #
• Brand confusion: someone searched for Wizard World San Diego. #
• Character confusion: a search for “Flash Gordon Shazam” #

Not Wizard World

• And the name conversion is complete: Wizard just announced tickets for “Philadelphia Comic Con 2010 Wizard World Convention” #
• Actually, it sounds less like a name and more like an exercise in keyword stuffing. #
• I wonder what “Philadelphia Comic-Con” (with a dash) will have to say about that name. Especially considering it’s this weekend. #

Other

• I’m only picking up 2 comics this week. I’d hold off until next week, but one of them is The Unknown. #
• RT @liabrown1: Deeply confused but highly amused by trending topic #happybdaytop Fun trivia: DC calendar gives the Top’s bday as Jan 22. #
• Thoughts on Evil Dead / Army of Darkness. #
• Didn’t watch V on Tuesday, but as a comic geek I can’t help but think it should have premiered today instead. #
• Hey, look, the Girl Genius side story on @Othar has started up again! #
• A surprising number of people expect Flash: Rebirth to finish with no more delays. #
• Debunking the 2012 Doomsday hoax: @2012hoax #FollowFriday #
• Even spam can be funny: @lol_spam for #FollowFriday. #

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• Does anyone use webrings anymore? I’m thinking of closing one that’ll only have 2 sites after GeoCities shuts down. #
• GeoCities lingered for a day, but has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. #
• Perhapanauts story arcs: First Blood, Second Chances, Triangle…and next: Fourshadowing (ouch!) #
• Apparently I write about the Flash a lot. Who knew? #
• Lots of people searching for Wally West’s new costume today. We’ll see it in Rebirth #5 or #6, and in Blackest Night: Flash. #
• Past Flash/Impulse writers & artists: @MarkWaid @KarlKerschl @BrendenFletcher @Humberto_Ramos @FreddieArt @TomPeyer #FollowFriday #
• RT @SpeedsterSite: Kid Flash sketch by Teen Titans artist Yildiray Cinar #
• Listed some DVDs, computer parts & cell phone accessories on eBay. #

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• Ha! Next week’s shipping list includes “AMBUSH BUG YEAR NONE #7 (OF 6)” #
• And Ignition City concludes next week! #
• Random facts: Biggest category on Speed Force is Flash News. Smallest is Covers. Second-biggest: General. #
• Top 5 tags are Rebirth, Geoff Johns, Linkblogging, Barry Allen, and Wally West. Bottom of the list? ~200 tags used only once each. #
• Ugh. SciFiWire comment sections. It’s like someone took the worst of Slashdot, Newsarama & the DC Message Boards set them loose. # (Okay, maybe not Slashdot)
• Kid Flash vs Mirror Master story in DCU Halloween Special. (This means I have 3 Halloween specials to read: DC, Vertigo & Perhapanauts.) #
• RT @GeoffJohns0: Ethan did an amazing job on Wally West’s new uniform…Very clean, very familiar, yet unique! #
• BN:Flash variant? RT @GeoffJohns0: And for everyone dying to see @FrancisManapul‘s first official piece on THE FLASH…we’ll see it soon. #
• Didn’t notice when I skimmed the TOC yesterday: DCU Halloween Special also has a Flash/Superman race. #
• This should make a number of fans happy: Retweeting @GeoffJohns0: I cannot believe how fast Scott Kolins is. Like lightning. #
• Retweeting @KelsonV: And the award for Most Disturbing Use of an Alarm Clock in a Prime Time Show goes to… FlashForward! #
• RT @GeoffJohns0: “Society” episode of SMALLVILLE is actually an insane DCU infused two-part epic. Part 1 is “Society” & Part 2 is “Legends.” #
• Huh. Mirror Master doesn’t like Bloody Mary. Who knew? #
• Flash/Kid Flash creative team: @GeoffJohns0 @SterlingGates @FrancisManapul #FollowFriday #
• So we had Barry & Blackhawk in the Battle of the Bulge in Brave & the Bold… #

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