Geoff Johns promises that Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds #4 will be out “soon” (DC’s schedule currently shows May 13), and has posted a few panels of Kid Flash (Bart Allen) and XS (Jenni Ognats).
The original on his site is in TIFF format (and a lot bigger), so it may not show up in your web browser.
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A couple of new interviews popped up over the weekend with Flash: Rebirth‘s writer and artist.
First IO9 interviews Geoff Johns. The answer that I found most intriguing from this interview was this:
Is the tone similar to Green Lantern: Rebirth? Because Green Lantern has a tone of, I don’t want to say “space opera,” but it’s been very grandiose and the stakes have never been small.
Green Lantern is to Space as the Flash is to Time.
The backdrop is, big and epic. But it’s a little bit more character-focused, though, the difference being, I gotta get into Barry Allen’s history more because he’s more of an unknown to people.
Let’s look at that again: “Green Lantern is to Space as the Flash is to Time.”
Next is the Blog@Newsarama Q&A with Ethan Van Sciver.
EVS: The reader can draw his own conclusions, but again, I don’t think it’s cynicism on Barry’s part, but a sense that something is very wrong. We’re not seeing the Barry we’re used to here, and there’s a reason for that.
I’m reminded of the fact that Bilson and DeMeo said the same thing about Bart at the beginning of Flash: The Fastest Man Alive. Of course, no one listened to them.
SpeedsterSite points to this video montage from Emerald City Comicon, which includes clips from the DC Nation Panel in which Ian Sattler announces several tie-in miniseries to this year’s big event, Blackest Night. Pop Culture Zoo describes the panel in detail.
Blackest Night is an 8-issue miniseries, plus stories running through Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps, plus at least six three-issue miniseries.
August sees the launch of the launch (leaked a few days ago) of the following 3-issue minis:
Apparently at the panel, Sattler confirmed three more 3-issue miniseries starting in November:
Well, there’s no shortage of dead speedsters to become Black Lanterns, or dead Rogues for that matter — plus the events of Flash: Rebirth seem to be adding to the supply.
This might relate to this bit from Ethan Van Sciver’s interview at Speedster Site:
SS: Also, if Rebirth ships on time, we’ll be done by September. Will we have a Flash ongoing title directly following by the end of the year, or will we have to suffer like we did at the end of Flash #247?
EVS: And you’re incorrect about September, but I can’t announce why yet! Don’t worry, it’s a good thing.
Update: CBR has posted their own write-up of the panel.
Here’s a fun fan trailer for a Justice League movie made up of clips from various super-hero movies and TV series, plus sci-fi and disaster films.
There’s some nice editing to create match-ups between characters who haven’t actually appeared on film together.
YouTube says it was posted in September 2007, but this is the first I’ve seen of it. (via A Distant Soil)
The Word Balloon podcast interviews Ethan Van Sciver about Flash: Rebirth and Blackest Night. The post has a few excerpts in which he talks about Barry Allen’s origin pre-figuring the Marvel-style accident-based origin (of course Jay’s fits the same pattern), about returning to draw Bart Allen years after his run on Impulse, about the Flash Museum and Central & Keystone Cities’ obsession with the Rogues, and about the challenge of drawing a monthly comic.
I’m really going to have to listen to this when I get home (or maybe at lunch if I can find a USB cable).
