Monthly Archives: September 2010

Carmine Infantino Interview Book from TwoMorrows (With Preview)

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In just a few weeks, TwoMorrows Publishing (the company that brought you The Flash Companion) is releasing Carmine Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur, a profile and extensive interview with the legendary artist by Jim Amash and Eric Nolen-Weathington.

The book arrives September 22 in two editions: a 224-page softcover and a 240-page hardcover with an additional 16-page color section not found in the paperback edition.

Even better: They’re offering a free 25-page preview [5.4MB PDF] online, pulled from an extensive interview on launching the Silver Age Flash and the artist’s approach to design, all heavily illustrated.

Carmine Infantino is the artistic and publishing visionary whose mark on the comic book industry pushed conventional boundaries. As a penciler and cover artist, he was a major force in defining the Silver Age of comics, co-creating the modern Flash and resuscitating the Batman franchise in the 1960s. As art director and publisher, he steered DC Comics through the late 1960s and 1970s, one of the most creative and fertile periods in their long history.

Join historian and inker Jim Amash (Alter Ego magazine, Archie Comics) and Eric Nolen-Weathington (Modern Masters book series) as they document the life and career of Carmine Infantino, in the most candid and thorough interview this controversial living legend has ever given, lavishly illustrated with the incredible images that made him a star. Carmine Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur shines a light on the artist’s life, career, and contemporaries, and uncovers details about the comics industry never made public until now.

Carmine Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur will be available on September 22.

Francis Manapul Talks Flash & Beast Legends

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Comic Vine interviews Francis Manapul about his work on The Flash and his role on the TV series Beast Legends.

Key Flash items:

  • The two Rogue Profile issues with art by Scott Kolins were planned to help get the book back on schedule, as well as to add depth to the villains. (No big surprise, here.)
  • The second story arc will be even “crazier” than the first. On a scale of 1–10, “we’re gonna aim for 15!”
  • Flashpoint will run concurrently with the third story arc in The Flash.
  • He can’t say anything about Wally West, but we “may have an answer in a few months.”

The rest of the article focuses on Beast Legends, which is all about tracing the origins of mythological creatures and using modern science to figure out what they would be like if they were real.

He touches briefly on the delays that have plagued The Flash from #4 onward. While working on the show, he’d come back to the hotel from a shoot, sleep, then wake up at 1am to draw through the night and send scans on to DC. “We were able to minimize any major delays to the book, ironically enough it was SDCC that wreaked havoc to the schedule.”

Head over to Comic Vine to read the whole interview!

Beast Legends premieres in the US on SyFy this Thursday, and has been running in Canada on History Television.

Guggenheim: Flash Movie Treatment Finished

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Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers interviews Marc Guggenheim about the Green Lantern and Flash movies. Readers of this blog will no doubt appreciate his first quote:

“We’ve turned in the treatment for Flash.”

Next up: the script. “It’s very much one step at a time for The Flash.”

Since Guggenheim, Greg Berlanti and Michael Green are also working on the story for Green Lantern 2, Rogers asked him about possible Flash sequels. They’re not planning one at this stage, but they are open to it.

Guggenheim will be covering two other speedsters while The Flash is in development. He takes over Justice Society of America with issue #44 (scheduled for October), where he’ll write the original Flash, Jay Garrick. He’s also a consulting producer on Berlanti’s TV show No Ordinary Family, which features a speedster played by Julie Benz (Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and premieres on September 28.

Weekend Updates: Zoom & Captain Boomerang

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I’ve updated two entries over at my Flash reference site, Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning.

First, I’ve posted an updated image of Captain Boomerang. After updating his biography last month, I realized I needed to add an image of his new costume. While I was at it, I also added images of him as a Black Lantern and White Lantern.

Something I’ve been thinking about off and on has been how best to present the Blackest Night Lantern Corps costumes. I finally decided the best choice was to just post them in each character’s profile, though I may do a round-up at some point.

Then I decided that if I was posting Digger’s Black and White Lantern looks, I’d take care of the Reverse-Flash as well. That was when I realized that I hadn’t updated his entry since before Flash: Rebirth. Oops!

So I filled in some more detail on what I had already, then wrote up the key elements that have changed: His resurrection in Blackest Night, his transformation in Flash: Rebirth, and his time-travel campaign against Barry Allen.

Both articles are up to date with the Brightest Day status quo…though I’m sure there will be some new wrinkles coming up in their Rogue Profile issues this fall.

Gone Fishin’

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That’s some impressive depth of field Wonder Woman is setting up in that shot. No wonder she needs a tripod! (Actually, that would be a seriously old camera for 1947, wouldn’t it?)

Instead of crime-fighting action, Comic Cavalcade‘s covers in the 1940s featured Wonder Woman, the Flash and Green Lantern hanging out together and having fun. Or occasionally doing something more serious, like collecting papers for a wartime recycling drive.

(Comic Cavalcade #21 cover from the Grand Comics Database.)