Sony has released a set of screenshots from DC Universe Online featuring Gorilla Grodd battling the Flash and other heroes.
Flash vs. Grodd in DC Universe Online
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Andy Kubert Talks Flashpoint
Well, sort of.
Next year’s Flash-centered event is still shrouded in secrecy, so when CBR interviewed Andy Kubert at FanExpo, the artist couldn’t say much about Geoff Johns’ story — or even which characters are involved! He did talk about the Flash’s appeal, and his approach to portraying super-speed, but
Francis Manapul Talks Flash & Beast Legends
Comic Vine interviews Francis Manapul about his work on The Flash and his role on the TV series Beast Legends.
Key Flash items:
- The two Rogue Profile issues with art by Scott Kolins were planned to help get the book back on schedule, as well as to add depth to the villains. (No big surprise, here.)
- The second story arc will be even “crazier” than the first. On a scale of 1–10, “we’re gonna aim for 15!”
- Flashpoint will run concurrently with the third story arc in The Flash.
- He can’t say anything about Wally West, but we “may have an answer in a few months.”
The rest of the article focuses on Beast Legends, which is all about tracing the origins of mythological creatures and using modern science to figure out what they would be like if they were real.
He touches briefly on the delays that have plagued The Flash from #4 onward. While working on the show, he’d come back to the hotel from a shoot, sleep, then wake up at 1am to draw through the night and send scans on to DC. “We were able to minimize any major delays to the book, ironically enough it was SDCC that wreaked havoc to the schedule.”
Head over to Comic Vine to read the whole interview!
Beast Legends premieres in the US on SyFy this Thursday, and has been running in Canada on History Television.
Guggenheim: Flash Movie Treatment Finished
Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers interviews Marc Guggenheim about the Green Lantern and Flash movies. Readers of this blog will no doubt appreciate his first quote:
“We’ve turned in the treatment for Flash.”
Next up: the script. “It’s very much one step at a time for The Flash.”
Since Guggenheim, Greg Berlanti and Michael Green are also working on the story for Green Lantern 2, Rogers asked him about possible Flash sequels. They’re not planning one at this stage, but they are open to it.
Guggenheim will be covering two other speedsters while The Flash is in development. He takes over Justice Society of America with issue #44 (scheduled for October), where he’ll write the original Flash, Jay Garrick. He’s also a consulting producer on Berlanti’s TV show No Ordinary Family, which features a speedster played by Julie Benz (Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and premieres on September 28.
DC 75th Anniversary Soundtrack
DC has announced a soundtrack compilation featuring music from movie and TV adaptations of their characters. The collection goes all the way back to the 1941 Superman cartoons by Max Fleischer Studios and runs up through Green Lantern: First Flight. A lot of it is previously unavailable material, like music from the 1967 Filmation cartoons, Super Friends and Justice League Unlimited, and the live-action Swamp Thing and Shazam! TV shows. There are also familiar tracks like John Williams’ Superman theme, Danny Elfman’s Batman, and the themes from the 1960s Batman and 1970s Wonder Woman TV series.
CBR has a detailed article, and The Source has the track list. Neither article has a release date more detailed than “later this year,” but Amazon lists September 28.
I was surprised not to see anything from the 1990 Flash TV series (though they do have the Flash intro from the Filmation cartoons), but they may have decided it didn’t represent the Flash appropriately. Danny Elfman’s theme for the show does sound a lot like his Batman theme.
If you do want to pick up music from the Flash TV series, you can still get La La Land Records’ limited edition 2-CD soundtrack, featuring Elfman’s theme and Shirley Walker’s score from eight episodes.
Doin’ the Speedster Shuffle (Schedule Changes)
DC’s website has some more scheduling changes for upcoming Flash issues:
- The Flash #5 is now September 22 (previously September 15).
- The Flash #6 is now October 27 (previously September 29).
- The Flash #7 is now November 10 (previously October 13).
- The Flash #8 is still November 24.
Meanwhile, over at Top Cow, Velocity #2 is still in its most recent spot on September 15.
Update September 2:
- The Flash #7 is now November 17.
- The Flash #8 is now December 8.
- Velocity #2 is now September 22. That means Velocity and The Flash are synced up again.