Monthly Archives: March 2013

Flash March Madness – Sweet 16 Round Begins!

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Flash March Madness is ready for another round, beginning Monday March 25th!  The match ups for Monday are:

Captain Cold vs. Trickster (Axel Walker)
Golden Glider vs. Zoom (Hunter Zolomon)
Reverse Flash (Eobard Thawne) vs. Weather Wizard
Mirror Master (Evan McCulloch) vs. Captain Boomerang (Owen Mercer)

The Sweet 16 Round continues on Tuesday, then we go to the Elite 8 on Wednesday and Thursday with the championship the following week.  YOUR votes determine who wins Rogue supremacy!

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Flash #18 Preview is Out

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Flash #18 CoverMTV Geek has a preview of Flash #18.

  • The Trickster is accused of murder! Can The Flash help solve his case?
  • Plus, a surprising twist ending that will rock the world of…DIAL H?

Written by: Brian Buccellato
Art by: Marcio Takara
Cover by: Francis Manapul
Variant Cover by: Francis Manapul

This is the first of two issues on which Francis Manapul is taking a break from everything except the covers. He’ll be back as co-writer and artist for Flash #20, when they pick up the Reverse-Flash story.

MTV Geek lists it as a $3.99 book, but the cover clearly states $2.99, and we know the Flash isn’t adding pages. I call typo at MTV.

I think we have a good idea what the Dial H connection is now.

Using ComiXology’s web-based viewer on my desktop for the first time in quite a while (I use my Nexus 7 usually when reading digital comics) really brings home the importance of pixel density. The *size* of the page is great on my monitor. It ends up being about the same size as a print issue, actually. But it’s harder to read because the text is so pixelated. Sadly, there are a lot of other things I need to pay for before I can justify buying a retina display.

The Flash #18 arrives in stores next Wednesday, March 27.

Flash March Madness Day 4 Results!

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The first week of Flash March Madness has drawn to a close with some interesting (and even surprising) winners. The results are:

Inertia d. Trickster James Jesse by two votes
Mirror Master Sam Scudder d. Kilg%re by a large margin
Dr. Alchemy (Albert Desmond) d. Savitar by a surprisingly large margin
The Top d. The Turtle in a landslide

…and that completes Round One!

Next Monday we will pick back up with Round Two of Flash March Madness.  Watch this space for the match-ups!

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Flash March Madness Day 3 Results!

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Day 3 of Flash March Madness is over! The results are:

Pied Piper easily d. Turbine with 80% of the vote
Digger Harkness d. Magenta in another landslide
Gorilla Grodd d. Cobalt Blue with 70% of the vote
The Thorn d. Mr. Element in the closest contest of the day, by just two votes

Day 4 will end Week 1 of Flash March Madness – don’t worry, this contest will continue through April 4th.

Today’s matches are:

Trickster (James Jesse) v. Inertia
Mirror Master (Sam Scudder) v. Kilg%re
Dr. Alchemy v. Savitar
The Top v. The Turtle

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This Week: Digital Smallville & Flash of Two Cities

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The next digital chapter of Smallville Season 11: “Haunted” guest-starring Impulse arrives on ComiXology on Friday.

Today, two more issues of the 1987-2009 Flash series starring Wally West are available digitally.

Flash #122-123: Keystone City decides that it can no longer handle the cost of property damage from the Flash’s battles, and want him to leave town. The seaside town of Santa Marta, California, however, would love to have their own super-hero. And who better than the Flash to be a super-commuter?

Flash #123: Flash of Two Cities

The cover and title are, of course, an homage to the classic “Flash of Two Worlds” in the first Flash #123.

One thing that surprised me here is that, up until now, DC and ComiXology have been re-releasing the series in sequence. After an initial release of a dozen or two issues by theme, they started with #1 and have been working their way forward, filling in and around those issues that have already been released. Last time, they jumped straight from #115 to #120, skipping the last three issues of “Race Against Time” and the “Final Night” tie-in issue. I wondered if they might be jumping back to fill in the gap this week, but that isn’t the case, at least not yet.

I asked ComiXology about it, and they said that DC simply hadn’t sent them those issues yet. I haven’t heard back from DC.

Vibe vs. Kid Flash for April WT(K)F

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Vibe #3

CBR has revealed the Vibe #3 fold-out cover…and it features Vibe vs. Kid Flash!

“What is the one super power that is more than a match for Vibe and how can it tear the universe apart?” Now we know…though considering that Vibe was apparently picked for the JLA to counterbalance the Flash’s powers, it should have been clear already.

Vibe #3 is written by Sterling Gates (Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost) with a cover by Brett Booth.