I missed last week’s link round-up, so this one’s going to be extra long. Fortunately, those of you in the US have an extra day to read them all!
Flash Art
- DC Flash Teaser: If you’re not moving, you’re not living.
- The Flash by Chris Samnee
- The Flash vs. Reverse Flash by Brian Hurtt
- You see, Len’s code against killing speedsters is really more like what you’d call guidelines than actual rules: “Hooray, we’re murderers!”
- Brett Booth (Teen Titans) redesigns Wally West Flash! – no, it’s not official. (via @SpeedsterSite)
- Speed Force, Impulse #1 by Tracie Mauk, for DC Fifty-Too!
- Justice Riders #1 by Dennis Culver for DC Fifty-TOO!
- La Cucaracha’s Flash Mob
- Comic Book Cover Homages in CSBG’s The Line, It Is Drawn series.
- CSBG Says goodbye to the old DCU
- Jim Lee’s design sketches for Superman, Flash and Aquaman at Wired
- Superman VS Google+ – The Joy of Tech
- Oh, Barry. Look what you did.
- Flash # 2 by Francis Manapul
More Flash
- In Which I Pestered People at DC – At Fan Expo, Lia Brown reports on her conversations with Dan Didio and Francis Manapul about the Rogues.
- Noblemania interviews Dick Ryal, Super Friends’ Captain Cold
- So You Want My Job: Comic Book Artist (The Art of Manliness interviews Francis Manapul)
- That F'ing Monkey: Flash Headphones
- Nerdage reviews the Trial of the Flash
- That F’ing Monkey’s Flash Reboot imagines a world in which, like Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, the Flash gets multiple comics.
- Comics Nexus reacts to the Barry/Iris breakup
The New 52
- John Ostrander on digital comics at Comicmix
- ComicsAlliance reviews DC’s new logos
- Origins: Only as Complicated as You Want Them To Be – Speed Force. It’s a two-year-old blog post, but it seems relevant.
- Pirates had Justice League #1 online before the official release
- Marv Wolfman on What’s Got To Die For a New DC World To Live – New York News – Runnin’ Scared. The writer talks about Crisis on Infinite Earths, continuity cleanups and character deaths.
- ICv2 – Interview with Didio and Lee – The Market Reasons, Prices, and the Relaunch
- 5 lingering questions about the new 52
- It’s all changed forever – again. Thoughts on the New 52 at Comics Worth Reading
- What makes a good first superhero issue? at Comics Worth Reading
- Collected Editions reminds us that This is not goodbye
- 25 Ways to Make a Superhero Marriage Interesting – Andy’s Sane Insanities
- EW Shelf Life compares Justice League of America #1 (1960) and Justice League #1 (2011)
Other
- 2011 Top 50 DC Characters #50-46. CSBG’s countdown begins.
That old Flash cover could not be more appropriate for how I feel.
Yesterday I got to go to the used book store (begged like a street person, really) and once the coast was clear zipped over to their large comic book/trades section.
The only book/issue with Flash in it was an old one of Barry.
Now the time before this (back in November?) there was an old Flash issue of Barry too along with Flash #1 Barry and some issues of Rebirth. I eagerly grabbed the old Barry along with some other Justice League books.
This time I didn’t take anything home. Totally no interest…and, yeah, that saddened me too…I’ve lost the interest I had in Barry..ANY Barry of any timeline. He might as well be Wonder Woman (who I’ve never glanced twice at.)
It’s worse.
I recently purchased over 20 issues of old DC issues and was enjoying the 1990 and 1998 Flash 80-page Giants…when I realized that I was skipping over the Barry sections of them. Read through the Max, Bart, Jessie ones just fine (even though I’m not all that keen on Jessie) but once my eyes hit Barry I flipped through the pages until another story started.
This is not me gloating or snarling or something like that. I’m as saddened by this realization as anyone: I now dislike Barry or at least don’t care; associate him with Wally’s death even though the upper part of my brain fully realizes that it’s not the character’s fault but DC Editorial’s and maybe Warner Bros.
Hopefully my subconscious gets over it soon and I’ll go back and read those story parts and maybe regret not getting that Barry issue.
Some great reads in there…and can’t this adorable IMPULSE #1 be true???
http://dcfifty-too.blogspot.com/2011/08/impulse-1-by-tracie-mauk.html
I LUV IT SO MUCH!!! 😀
Good gosh, so many intriguing links and I’m meant to be getting to sleep. I do like Brett Booth’s Wally, and the fact that he’s actively campaigning to use our guy.
And I must check out the reactions to the new logos. OK, they may well look better in context, but at first sight many look awfully cheap and insubstantial.