With Flash: Rebirth launching in April 2009, there won’t be an issue of The Flash in March, so Flash fans will have to rely on team books and collections for our speedster fix. Continue reading
Flash Comics for March 2009
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Speed Reading: Wally, Santa, Legacy and Icons
Okay, some catching up!
Comic Nexus’ Who’s Who in the DCU discusses the “Wally West conundrum”.
4thLetter! mulls the link between Santa Claus and the speed force.
Dan Didio discusses legacy vs. iconic characters (among lots of other stuff) in his latest 20 Questions column
Blog@Newsarama reviews Geoff Johns’ career to date.
DC’s solicitations for March come out later today. There won’t be any new Flash books (though The Flash Archives Vol.5 comes out that month), so it’ll be mainly team books that feature fast guys in red.
Edit: Also, today’s installment of What Were They Thinking shows one of those “classic” Flash/Green Lantern pairings — or rather, super-hero fights — complete with a giant-head Flash!
Quick Thoughts: Twitter Through 2008-12-14
- Re-read Fray. Caught up on Buffy & Fables. Finally read comic adaptation of last year’s Beowulf.
- Argh! Search term: “flash gordon and superman’s race” Flash Gordon DOES NOT RUN FAST! *grumble*
- I wonder how many people, looking for Flash villains, can’t find them because they’re looking for the Rouges instead of the Rogues.
- Some Flash 246 Reviews: Comic Reviews, Major Spoilers, Comix 411, Comics Bulletin, Speed Force, and ComiXtreme.
- Dropping Newsarama & CBR from Twitter in favor of RSS feeds. I see the headlines eventually anyway, and they just clutter up the timeline.
- Added countdown timer for end of Flash and start of Flash:Rebirth. Unfortunatley it wants a specific day, so I picked April 30.
- Final Crisis #5: The pieces have come together.
- Latest Dan Didio 20 Questions talks about legacy vs. iconic versions of characters – and the 5th!? gen of heroes.
- Mark Waid explains the Batman suit in the Flash ring (and answers lots of other questions).
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Flash: Rebirth Sneak Peek
Flash: Rebirth artist Ethan Van Sciver’s latest Your Time is Now Mine column features, as promised last week, a sneak peek at the miniseries’ artwork.
Hmm, looks like Barry Allen visiting the Flash Museum in his secret identity.
Click through for a larger image and lots of random commentary.
Flash: Rebirth #1 of 6 ships in April 2009.
Geoff Johns Leaves JSA
Geoff Johns has announced that he will be leaving Justice Society of America — a title that he has co-written even through a relaunch for nearly a decade — after the upcoming Justice Society of America #26.
At the center of his announcement is this:
The JSA to me represents everything good about life, work and superheroes. In life, generations past, present and future all provide different viewpoints. There can be something magical when it’s past from grandfather to father to son or from mother to daughter or son to grandfather. There’s nothing more important than family – and family means a lot more than just blood relatives. That’s what my very first book, STARS & S.T.R.I.P.E., was about and that’s what JSA, and life, is about.
So why am I leaving?
I have more stories to tell, and the characters are endless, but that’s also true for the DC Universe. I’m ready to move on to some other challenges like returning to THE FLASH and SUPERMAN: SECRET ORIGIN. And I am also obsessed with making sure that GREEN LANTERN, BLACKEST NIGHT and everything around it is the absolute best it can possibly be.…and that’s only part of 2009. There are some new projects on the horizon.
It’s a shock to see him leave the book after so long, but as he says, the DC Universe is huge, and I can absolutely understand wanting to explore more facets of it.
Of course, this being a Flash blog, I’ll have to point out the phrasing, “returning to The Flash.” That may just be a reference to Flash: Rebirth, but it certainly sounds like he plans to stick around afterward.
And I thought there wouldn’t be any big Flash news to cover this week…
Update: Newsarama has an interview in which Geoff Johns clarifies what he’ll be working on next year:
With my runs on Action Comics and Justice Society of America coming to a close I’ll be focusing on Green Lantern, The Flash: Rebirth, Superman: Secret Origin and Blackest Night. Technically that gives me one monthly book and three mini-series, but by the time 2009 is over I’ll be back on three monthly books. So that’s what it’ll look like a year from now.
Flash Direct-to-DVD Animated Film In The Works
Newsarama’s article about the NYCC Premiere of Wonder Woman includes this surprising information:
Other animated films slated to be in development are Batman, Superman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and the Justice League.
It’s undoubtedly a long way off, but we’re likely to see a Flash installment in the home video–market animated series that includes Superman: Doomsday, Justice League: New Frontier, Batman: Gotham Knight and next spring’s Wonder Woman long before we see a live-action theatrical movie.
(Or, Newsarama could be getting the animated series mixed up with the perpetually–in–development hell Flash movie.)
Thanks to reader Theodore rrrr for spotting this!