Art & Costumes
- Fred Hembeck’s Rogue’s Gallery illustration is up at Heritage Auctions.
- 52 Supervillains (via Blastr, I think)
- Titans Tower has pictures from the Titans Together! photoshoot at Dragon-Con. (And don’t miss the sketches from Baltimore that he’s been posting).
- Once Upon a Geek’s Dragon*Con Photos are up!
News & Interviews
- Comic Attack reports on a probably-inflated big-ticket Flash auction.
- Pop Culture Zoo interviews Francis Manapul
Commentary
- 4thLetter’s David Brothers asks, Is it time to leave the past behind?. Kalinara responds at Pretty, Fizzy Paradise, explaining Why I Love Legacy Characters.
- Collected Editions has updated the DC TPB Timeline with Sandman, Doom Patrol, and Countdown to Final Crisis.
- Quick Time looks back at Zoom to Zoom and speculates on the inevitable Zoom Family.
- How much does it cost to make a comic? (via The Beat)
- Newsarama’s Jill Pantozzi considers: If the Teen Titans had to get summer jobs…
- Newsarama’s Friday Flashback: 1986 – The Biggest Year in Comics
- I can’t remember if I linked to these Flash-inspired shoes already.
- Now Read This! reviews Flash: The Wild Wests.
I think you did link to those shoes, but it was nice taking a second link anyway (if only because it inspired me for a bit of fanfic writing.) Was disappointed in the actual product though…no Flash symbol at all? Now, I suppose that they didn’t get permission from DC as that would have meant paying big bucks to the publishing company, but surely Nike could have fudged a generic lightning bolt on it somewhere. Something subtle. As it is, to me it’s pretty much just another red and gold shoe.
Nice to see a reviewer giving Wild Wests a thumbs up. I did enjoy that book. It was no Terminal Velocity, mind, but enjoyable enough and a sign that if they had just been allowed to keep going…. *sigh* Water under the bridge…or time under the Barry Speed Force. damn.
Btw, some forum poster I ran across while on a Google search hinted that the 2013 Flash movie will feature not only Barry, but also Wally. Find this hard to believe. Strike that…find it impossible to believe just yet. Unless it’s a way-in-the-background shot of a young pre-Kid Flash Wally for up to three seconds on film. You know…something akin to how much page time the printed Wally has been getting.
Oh, and that Homer as Flash thing is terrifying.