Monthly Archives: June 2011

WWWW: Contest Winner, Week Seven!

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s installation of our “Where Was Wally West?” contest here at Speed Force!

We posted a panel from a classic Flash comic, featuring Wally West in an alternate reality, the past or a “possible future”. Correct answers were put into a raffle, and a winner was drawn at random. To refresh your memory, here is the latest subject:

Tell it like it is, Box of Speed…

Congrats to Robert! This week’s subject was Flash #136, (February 1998): “Radio Days,” writer – Grant Morrison, artist – Paul Ryan. Flash is forced to race his childhood imaginary friend across the universe, to the death. Robert wins his choice of Flash posters!

See you next time, when we’ll ask “Where Was Wally West?”!

Reviews: Flashpoint, Knight of Vengeance and Abin Sur

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The first round of Flashpoint miniseries’ arrived last Wednesday. DC has seemingly selected creative teams based on potential and allowed them to play in the sandbox of this alternate reality however they would like. To be sure, both of the issues reviewed here do little more than exist in the universe that has just now been created for Flashpoint, at least in their respective openings. They also succeed on many levels, achievements made possible by the unexplored new world. If DC is using the minis as a way to ease fans into a reboot, they could have done a whole lot worse.

In Batman: Knight of Vengeance, the Gotham City of Flashpoint is put into harsh focus. In Abin Sur: The Green Lantern, events in Green Lantern lore both recent and distant are re-cast, and redesigned with an eye towards the upcoming film.

For further comments and some spoilers, see you after the jump…

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Speed Reading: Other Stuff

And this wraps up the weekend’s linkblogging!

Rise Of The Cons: SoCal’s Three Cons – I’m definitely heading to Long Beach this year, but I’m not sure about Wizard’s Los Angeles con or Comikaze Expo.
Grumpy Old Fan’s Alternative 30 Essential Graphic Novels at Robot 6
CSBG’s Thor test case: Converting movie super-hero viewers to comic readers.
Giant-Size Geek reviews Carmine Infantino: Penciller, Publisher, Provocateur, TwoMorrows’ massive book focusing on the classic Flash artist
Quote(s) of the day at Robot6: The audience doesn’t know what it wants. Picking up from a remark in a recent Mark Waid interview, they explore the nature of what “the audience” says it wants, and why trying to chase that isn’t always the best way to deliver a good story…or even what the audience actually wants.
The Oatmeal vs. Content Farmers
Offsite events at Comic-Con International (San Diego)
Speed Force and Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning make Comics Should Be Good’s Month of Comic Book Sites. Thanks, guys!

Geoff Johns on the Future of Wally West, 2009

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Just a quick *ahem* flashback to 2009, when readers were concerned about the fate of Wally West in the face of Flash: Rebirth.

I’m still waiting…

Speed Reading: Art Round-Up

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Almost caught up with the linkblogging! Here’s some professional and fan art featuring the Flash and related characters.

Francis Manapul’s uncolored cover for Flash #1
Impulse by Humberto Ramos (via FFA)
Flash Heroes and Flash Villains by Mbecks14 (via TRKA)
Golden Glider by Allen Belk (via TRKA)
Heat Wave by Howard Porter (TRKA)
The War of Light, Silver-Age style. Who would have thought of tying the a villain who uses an emotional spectrum, to a multi-colored lantern corps powered by…an emotional spectrum? (Remember, Geoff Johns killed off the Rainbow Raider because he couldn’t think of anything to do with him.)
Young Justice featuring Kid Flash by Andolov (FFA)
Flash Lineup at Illegal Aliens.
JLA: Knights of the Round Table by ~TheComicFan on deviantART