Monthly Archives: June 2011

Speed Reading: DC Reboot Week Two

Some weekend linkblogging with articles on the DC Relaunch.

Scott Kolins Talks Flashpoint: Citizen Cold

At Heroes*Con, Ken O of That F’ing Monkey interviewed Scott Kolins, the writer/artist of Flashpoint; Citizen Cold. Kolins talked how he ended up tweaking the various characters and their looks, including a funny story about the Weather Wizard:

I got to do something that Geoff Johns laughed about; I gave Weather Wizard that goatee. It’s a reference to when we had originally changed his costume in the Flash books years ago and made his pattern green with yellow stripes on it. At that time when I did sketches for him to show DC what we wanted to do I had given him facial hair; at that point it was a handle bar mustache. Geoff was like, “This looks great…lose the handlebar mustache.” So this time when he saw the goatee he was like, “All right, fine. You finally get to put it on him.”

He also mentions that he has his next project already lined up. It’s not one of the 52 relaunched books for Septemeber, so presumably we’ll see something from Kolins’ pen launching in the months to come.

There’s a lot more. Read the whole interview at That F’ing Monkey.

Thoughts on the New DCU – Part 6: The Edge

Our series reacting to DC’s September relaunch is almost complete. So far we’ve covered the Justice League, Green Lantern, Batman, Dark and Teen books. This time around we’re looking at the “edge” series.

Stormwatch · Blackhawks · Sgt. Rock and the Men of War · All-Star Western · Deathstroke · Grifter · OMAC · Suicide Squad · Blue Beetle

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Quick Hits: Flashpoint Sales

Like the first issue, Flashpoint #2 has sold out at the distributor. A second printing is coming in July. (The second printing of Flashpoint #1 arrives this coming Wednesday.

Diamond has released their sales rankings for May. Flashpoint #1 was the #2 comic for the month by unites sold (behind Marvel’s Fear Itself), while The Flash #12 pulled in a respectable 15th place. Number estimates will no doubt be up soon.

Thoughts on the New DCU – Part 5: The Next Generation of Justice

We continue our series reacting to DC’s September relaunch. Previously we’ve covered the Justice League, Green Lantern, Batman and Dark titles. Now we look at the Teen Titans, Legion and other young heroes.

Legion of Super-Heroes · Legion Lost · Teen Titans · Static Shock · Hawk & Dove

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