Weekend linkblogging.
Flash stuff
- At Comics Bulletin, The Full Run has been working through the Wally West Flash series. Earlier this month they posted Mike Baron’s Flash. This week, they added William Messner-Loebs’s Flash (Part 1) — featuring commentary by Messner-Loebs himself!
- Last of the Famous International Fanboys has two Flash posts up: Why I think Barry Allen is Awesome and Wally West is brilliant but it’s time for Barry Allen.
- Off My Mind asks, What Happened to Wally West? at Comic Vine
- Lucas is a Geek posts his Plea for Wally & Stephanie in the DCnU.
- XKCD: Arrow. This would make perfect sense in Central City.
- It turns out there was a science fiction writer named Wallace West who wrote about time travel. Here’s one of his stories: The End of Time at Project Gutenberg.
- Comic Book Legends Revealed #328 includes some background on the Flash TV series from 1990. (Also: Aunt May & Uncle Ben before Spider-Man, and the death of Grant Morrison’s DCU avatar.)
- That F’ing Monkey doesn’t like The Big Bang Theory.
- MY Times’ Arts Beat comments on Showcase Presents: The Trial of the Flash.
- Fastest Fan Alive: Sterling Silver Flash Ring
- Francis Manapul posts the cover to Flash #3.
Art
- DC Fifty-TOO! begins: independent artists create their own vision of a the New 52. A few Flash-related highlights:
- Teen Titans #1 by Tim Seeley
- Dex-Starr by Katie Cook (OK, nothing Flash-related here, but hey, it’s Dex-Starr.)
- Liberty Belle #1 by Joel Priddy
- The Line It Is Drawn #53: I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now – Old Man JLA, Runababies, Teen Venom and more (Comics Should Be Good)
More Comics
- Don’t forget to vote in CSBG’s Top 100 Marvel/DC characters poll
- Dear DC: Our Unsolicited Advice for THE NEW 52 and Part 2. (Newsarama)
Am getting really tired of the ‘explanation’ that there can’t be Wally and Barry both because ‘Wally has run his course/his story has been told’ blather. For one thing, that ‘argument’ is contradicted by the retconning of…oh lets just keep it to one example here: Barry Allen. Despite having more issues (now because they’ve made it so since Rebirth) next month Barry will suddenly be younger, free to browse the ‘significant other’ market, and fresher than a day-old daisy. Yet somehow this same cosmic rejuvenation cream couldn’t be applied to Wally because….they didn’t want to bother.
Barry lost his parents and that made him ‘interesting’.
I know! Let’s BRING BACK Wally’s parents! That would be loads interesting! We haven’t seen either in ages!
No can do because…well, Wally’s story has been told, don’t ya know?
This week’s Flash Friday isn’t my strongest post. I needed to vent after getting cornered into a conversation about the television show and being told how I should love it since they talk about all the things I like.
I agree with you, Ken O, on The Big Bang Theory. Saw the clips that you mentioned while looking up Flash on YouTube and thought the running to the GC and speed knocking on the door was hilarious. Came >< close to buying the DVD when the price made me reconsider….why was I risking cash based on five minutes? Good thing because I then made an effort to actually stay up and watch two episodes. GAG! Nothing but sexual innuendo humor. The show actually is a detriment to comic fans if this is how we are represented to the 'public'.