Some linkblogging for the week…
High Five! Comics looks at Flash #206: 24 Hours of Immortality and Nurse Barry.
The Idol-Head of Diabolu has located a 1967 board game featuring the Flash (via Crimson Lightning).
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More Francis Manapul Flash Art
Upcoming Flash artist Francis Manapul has posted some new Flash art on his blog. The piece was done for a comic festival next month, and he’s working on shifting from a Wally West look to a Barry Allen look.
Manapul has also put an earlier Flash piece up for auction to benefit flood victims in the Philippines. It’s one of the pieces posted on The Source last week, now inked by Livesay.
Speed Reading: Iconic Covers, Crisis Preview, Evil, Maps & More
Comics Should Be Good wraps up the month of iconic covers with the Top 5 Most Iconic Barry Allen Covers.
Ain’t It Cool News has a preview of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the next direct-to-home video DC animated film. It’s based on a number of Earth-2/Earth-3 stories in which the Justice League goes up against their evil counterparts from another world, the Crime Syndicate. There’s a few frames of the evil Johnny Quick in the preview, sporting an entirely new costume. (Thanks to Jesse for the link.)
Speaking of evil, the “Mark Waid Was Evil” teaser turns out to be for a new series, Incorruptible, intended as the flip side to Irredeemable. This series follows a super-villain who decides to become a hero in response to the Plutonian’s fall to the dark side.
Newsarama evaluates Wednesday Comics, giving the Flash strip a B+.
Avatar Press has started a collaborative map of comic shops around the world. You can help by adding the local store where you buy your comics.
Over at my other blog, I made an amusing discovery about Wizard World Los Angeles, the Long Beach Comic-Con, and two convention centers.
Quick Look: Francis Manapul Flash Sketches
The Source has posted some Flash sketches by Francis Manapul. They look great, and IMO should reassure fans who have been apprehensive about his selection as artist on the new series. Manapul plans to ink and watercolor the art himself, similar to the style he’s using for Adventure Comics.
The artist adds some new wrinkles to the Flash transition timeline:
These were done a while back near the end of my Legion run. I tried to make a go at the Flash and these were the sketches I did as a pitch to try and get the book. It was nixed as Geoff and I decided to do Adventure Comics (which I love and will miss very much). However the opportunity to get on the scarlett speedster arose and so here we are.
That would have been about a year ago, right? Flash: Rebirth would have been announced, but not solicited, with people speculating that it would start anywhere from January to March (it ended up launching in April). I suppose if Flash: Rebirth had been 6 issues starting in January and stayed on time, DC could have launched a Flash ongoing series in July — right around the time that they launched Adventure Comics. Hmm…
Creator Catch-Up: Johns on Smallville, Williams on Digital Art, Roberston & the ‘Ringo
The first of several linkblogging posts for the day.
Geoff Johns offers hints about his upcoming Smallville episode, Society, featuring the Justice Society. The exact lineup hasn’t been determined yet, but sadly it won’t include the Golden Age Flash or Green Lantern, Jay Garrick and Alan Scott. The season will, however, feature the live-action debut of the Wonder Twins.
CBR interviews Darick Robertson on his career, including his work back in the early 1990s on such books as Justice League Europe, Justice League Quarterly, and the Flash TV Special.
Former Flash artist Freddie Williams II talks about The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics
Heroes Online talks about the Mike Wieringo Scholarship.
Speed Reading: Dezago on Casper, Undead Allies, Marvel vs. DC, and More
Some Friday linkblogging:
Former Impulse writer Todd Dezago is working on a Casper the Friendly Ghost miniseries. Update: Newsarama has an interview.
Again with the Comics considers other times that DC’s heroes have had to face undead former allies.
Being Carter Hall posts a sketch of Hawkman and the Golden Age Flash by classic artist Sheldon Moldoff.
Silver Age Comics looks back at the Great Price Increase of 1961.
Grumpy Old Fan considers the essential difference between Marvel and DC and how it impacts continuity, long-form storytelling and relentless pursuit of imperfection.
Comic Book Heroes profiles the Flash.
Update: The Nerdy Bird has located a sexy Flash costume (and a scary Batman one). Update 2: The first woman in the SDCC Flash Sighting post appears to be wearing this costume.
Update: Custom Paper Toys’ paper JLA figures will be available at Arby’s (via Robot 6)