Monthly Archives: June 2014

Annotations: The Trial of the Flash, #340 – “Reach Out and Waste Someone!”

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Welcome to the latest installment in our annotations of the collected edition of The Trial of the Flash!  A while back, we analyzed related stories leading up to the release of Showcase Presents: The Trial of the Flash.  In addition, we interviewed author Cary Bates about the buildup and the Trial itself, plus showed you what wasn’t included in the collection.

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IN THIS ISSUE:  The Flash vs. The Acceleration of Gravity at High Altitudes!

Links to original artwork, scans and research are included throughout this post.  For definitive legal analysis of the story by Bob Ingersoll, go here.  Tom vs. Flash Podcast links here, including these issues.  As always, huge thanks to the DC Indexes. See you after the jump!

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Speed Reading: Flash for the Uninitiated, Central City Song, and More

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A few quick Flash and other-speedster links from this week.

Rumor: Flash/Green Lantern Movie in the Works

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Flash and Green Lantern

Take this with a huge grain of salt: Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke reports on a slew of DC movies expected to be announced at Comic-Con next month to follow up on Batman vs. Superman, including a Justice League movie, a Wonder Woman solo film, and a Flash/Green Lantern (not Ryan Reynolds) team-up in 2017. (via The Beat)

Keep in mind that Warner Bros. was expected to announce a Flash movie last year, which didn’t happen, though a few weeks later they announced the TV series. And of course even if a movie really is in the works, there’s no guarantee it will actually get made, as a Flash movie has spent a full decade in development hell since being announced back in 2004.

It’s still not clear whether DC’s Man of Steel spinoffs will be taking place in the same universe as Arrow and The Flash, but wouldn’t it be cool for a Flash/Green Lantern team-up film to hit during the mid-season hiatus of Flash season three?

(Image: Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold #1 cover by Barry Kitson.)

Digital Flashbacks Speeding Up: Piper Spotlight & Hawkman

For the last year or so, DC Comics had been releasing one issue of The Flash (1987-2009 series starring Wally West) from their back catalog every two weeks. Lately, they’ve sped up, adding another issue each week to ComiXology and other digital platforms.

Since the conclusion of Crossfire just a few weeks ago, they’ve added the following:

Flash #189: A bit of a breather, as everyone catches up on where they are post-Crossfire.
Flash #190: Rogue Profile spotlight on the Pied Piper.
Flash #191: Hawkman guest-stars and Brother Grimm returns.

Sunday Speedster Cinema: Quicksilver

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Two links related to that other super-speedster who recently made a live-action debut.

WIRED: Flash vs. Quicksilver. A physics professor looks at the feats we see performed in X-Men: Days of Future Past (and I’m sure we can all agree: that scene was awesome!) and the first trailer for the Flash TV show, and tries to calculate just how fast each of them is moving. In the comics, of course, the Flash is much faster, but in these particular adaptations…well, check it out.

The Quicksilver of Two Worlds: ComicsAlliance recounts the history of Pietro Maximoff and how “a D-list speedster” became the object of a Hollywood turf battle.

OK, make that three links: The webcomic Our Valued Customers on Quicksilver’s Carl’s Jr. commercial.