Wow! This was a big Comic-Con for Flash news, with the TV series getting ready to go into its second season and a host of new comics projects on the way.
Here’s a link to all the announcements in one place:
TV and Movies
- Season 2 Sizzle Reel – mostly recaps season one, but teases the new villain and a major new guest star for next year.
- Flash at the DCTV Event – Casting for Jay Garrick and Patty Spivot, hints at the new major villain, and lots of news about where the show is going. (Jay Garrick was confirmed the previous day.)
- Legends of Tomorrow video: Hero Evolution featuring Arrow, Flash, and the comic book origins of the various TV characters.
- Vixen First Look features Flash & Arrow
- New Flash Costume on display on the convention floor.
- Concept Art of Ezra Miller as the Flash was reportedly shown at the Batman v. Superman panel.
Collectibles
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Preview Night Reveals: DC Collectibles Flash & Arrow figures and Mezco New 52 Flash
- Flash exclusives including an unmasked POP! figure, a retro Flash TV show figure, a superhero cage match mug pen holder, and a Flash symbol letter opener. A few may be available online after the con, but chances are you’ll have to scour eBay to find them now.
Comics
- Grant Morrison to write Multiversity Too: The Flash OGN set in an unspecified reality, to be released 2016.
- JMS to write Earth One: The Flash OGN featuring a new take on Barry Allen, to be released 2016.
- Geoff Johns to write Justice League: Gods and Men specials tying into Darkseid War, including a Flash special in which he becomes the Black Racer.
- Ongoing Flash series hints – not really much we didn’t already know.
Flash #45 monster variant cover by Gustavo Duarte for October. (Not SDCC-related, but announced in the middle of it.)
Truly exciting time to be a Flash fan! The next years have everything to be even more exciting.
With all the talk of convergence opening up lost characters and how the new 52 Wally West was constructed to fit with the TV show, it’s kind of disappointing that DC attempted to generate no excitement for the character whatsoever. This was the biggest comic event of the year and what did they have to say? Just that he’ll show up in season 2, and not much beyond that. They have eliminated all the obstacles to creating stories about him short of editorial obstruction.