Some weekend linkblogging as we race toward Flashpoint.
Flash Art.
- Flash sketch by Mike Bowden, artist of DC RetroActive: The Flash – 90s
- Francis Manapul draws Kid Flash, XS and Captain Boomerang, Jr.. I agree: This needs to happen in Flashpoint!
- I remember readers talking about the “Flashcredibles” a few years back. I don’t think this Incredibles Flash is what they had in mind.
Flash and Flashpoint.
- That F’ing Monkey: Captain Cold, Television Star
- Comics Nexus spots a stealth Flashpoint tie-in starring XS in Adventure Comics #526. They also have several pages from the FCBD Flashpoint Preview.
- Speed Force contributor Devin “The Flash” Johnson has been posting his top 10 Flash collectibles at Fastest Fan Alive
- USA Today: “Flashpoint”: Not the DC heroes you know
- Grumpy Old Fan considers the possible long-term implications of Flashpoint, asking, Who’s got room for Professor Zoom?
Other comics stuff.
- The Beat: Does anyone care if there are comics at a comic-con?
- Young Justice vol.1 is available digitally through DC Comics/Comixology. (via @TheFlashReborn)
Hey, that Kid Flash, XS, Boomer image is my comission that I got a few years ago. Cool, it finally made it to this site.
I think the XS story in Adventure Comics is more of a foreshadowing of upcoming Legion of Super-Heroes stories than of Flashpoint. But even in that case it seemed to fail at saying anything new about the Legion story or advance XS’s story in any meaningful way. I was disappointed in it.
Wow, Mike Bowden’s take on Wally West as Flash has a strong resemblance to 90’s Impulse artist Humberto Ramos while looking very little like he was portrayed in Wally’s own book: no eye lenses and strange anatomy. I hope this isn’t what he will actually look like in the RetroActive special.
Hey Chris, don’t worry, that sketch was just a test piece. I’ve gone back to what Mike Wieringo did and you’ll see my take on Wally will be closer to his. The eye lenses are back and he’s a little bulkier. DC will release the covers soon enough and you’ll see what I mean!