Weekend linkblogging…
Flashy
- BLAARGH! Asks, Where’s Wally West?! – Panels on Pages
- The Shade by Scott Kolins (TRKA)
- Jay and The Daly Superheroes – That F’ing Monkey
- Trading Spaces by Dapper Dan – Jumping On The Flash – Bleeding Cool
- Action Figure Insider: Young Justice Kid Flash
- Flash #6 review at Comic Book and Movie Reviews
- Superman vs. the Flash…at Tag – Little League webcomic
- Life imitates art? Rebels relive glory years with Saturday reunion (video) – This band from the 1960s is getting together for a reunion gig. Lead singer Barry Allen is playing with them for the first time in over 20 years.
More comics
- Lois Lane writes a letter to DC Comics: Why Do You Keep Fridging Me? – Wired
- A look back at the origin of Image Comics: What happens when artists run the show – GeekOut/CNN
- Amusing: Moviefone calls people named John Carter in each state and asks them if they’re going to see John Carter.
- The problem with overshipping comics – Savage Critics (via Comics Worth Reading)
- DC talks February sales at Newsarama
- Multiverses and Marvels – Grumpy Old Fan talks on the changing nature of Earth-2 and the Captain Marvel family
- First six playable characters revealed for Young Justice: Legacy
- Comics are finally on time. Happy now? – The Beat
BLAARGH!
The Flash is *always* a little less douche.
Dapper Dan, when was Iris West a Flash?
Ah, the controversial Kid Flash box that has some people fearing that Wally and Artemis will be the ones to die this season (because they are not pictured.) 9.9 *sigh*
Yet another Flash/Superman race?
Wow. Lois Lane really was a top investigative reporter based on this: “f you add my deaths, Selina’s Earth-2 death, the Amazons, and the need to get rid of all the DC Universe married couples, including Barry Allen and Wally West (who aren’t even dating)…” Holy Cow! I wasn’t even aware Barry and Wally were married! ;P
Yes, I can see where $4 for a 19-page comic (full of story-interrupting commercial pages too) would kill a hobby all by itself. I wait for trades (preferably hardbounds) because its both cheaper, last longer, and I can get plenty of info before I purchase as to whether the entire story will appeal to me or not. For instance, I purchased Avengers for Pym, but will likely return unread Avengers Academy vol 2 simply because from what I’m reading now that is going somewhere I don’t want to go. In the meantime, there’s a new book coming out by Morrison that I really want to read that is from neither Marvel or DC: Dinosaurs VS Aliens. At a discounted price I can get that hb for less money than $4 per every 19 pages….and there won’t be a cliffhanger or tie-ins telling me I must buy the next set to finish the story (a mistake I made with Brightest Day.)
On the last question…no. On time was never a real problem for me. Getting to read what I want to read about….THAT has always been and still is problem.
I suspect Dapper Dan was referring to Iris West II from Kingdom Come, The Kingdom and Chain Lightning, or possibly the artificially-grown-up Iris West II from Fast Money.
So, lemme try to recap:
– I’m still missing Wally
– Getting rid of marriages and most women, DC is looking like Joe Quesada quite a lot
– Image did what Millar & co might miss
– Making Billy Batson gritty is the worst New 52 move so far…
I guess that covers it all?
:/