Weekend linkblogging.
First, the Flash stuff:
- Ask Chris #67: The Flash of Two Eras – Op/Ed on why Barry Allen’s return diminishes both Barry and Wally (Comics Alliance)
- CSBG looks back at Buried Alien, Fastest Man Alive! from Quasar (Believe it or not, he came back later)
- Who advises Batman? Wally West, that’s who (It’s Wallie)
- Letter-writing campaign to get Sterling Gates on a Kid Flash ongoing.
- The Flash #1 page 19 by Francis Manapul
- Almost Hidden: “Nobody Dies,” Flash #54 at CSBG – one of the best Flash done-in-ones from the Wally West era (the one in which he jumps out of an airplane to save a flight attendant).
- I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Now Barry Allen’s Actions in Identity Crisis Make Sense (CSBG)
- Flash by Yildiray Cinar
- Where to start with The Flash?
- WB has a “solid script” for The Flash. [dead link]
- CBR reviews DC Retroactive: The Flash 1980s
VOTE!
- Vote for the Top 100 DC and Marvel Characters (CSBG)
- Vote For Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles (NPR)
Other Comics Stuff
- Inside Pulse aks, Who will remember the pre-Flashpoint Universe?
- Speed Force, Comic-Con: Perception vs. Reality (Part 2)
- Justice League and Justice Society Pin-up by George Perez – onceuponageek: Speed Force, Justice League and Justice Society Pin-up by George Perez
- Another Muppet Blackest Night at CSBG
- The Green Lantern Movie: How *Not* to Plot a Story – Jami Gold analyzes it from a writing standpoint.
- Friday at San Diego Comic-Con
- Rumor: of a DC Fifty-TOO!: The New DCU as imagined by 52 independent cartoonists, running August 15-31.
- The Top 100 most prolific DC writers features a number of Flash writers, with Robert Kanigher, Gardner Fox, Geoff Johns, Cary Bates and Mark Waid all in the top 20. (via The Beat
- THE REPLACEMENTS: 10 of the Best Substitute Superheroes – Newsarama
- THE LATE LIST 2: More Comics No Shows (CBR) – some of these late comics are really late!
- Photo: Looking “Up”
- Dinosaur Comics calculates the Real-Life Batman Generation Rate
- Comic Book Format Wars at CSBG