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Flash #2 Solicited

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DC has posted May’s Brightest Day solicitations, including The Flash #2:

The Flash #2

On sale MAY 12 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL
1:10 variant cover by RYAN SOOK

BRIGHTEST DAY shines its light on the continuing saga of Barry Allen – The Fastest Man Alive! The Flash continues his investigation into the “Dastardly Death of the Rogues” as the case takes a dramatic turn and Barry corners a suspect…and can’t believe who it is!

Judging by all the snow in May, either Captain Cold or Weather Wizard is probably involved. Or Central City has been transported to the southern hemisphere. 🙂

On one hand, I hope they stop with the variant covers soon. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing Ryan Sook’s take on the Flash.

Also, it looks like Jay Garrick is guest-starring in Justice League of America.

Update: Artist Francis Manapul has posted a scan of the original art for the cover. Continue reading →

More Figures: Zoom, Streak, Chronicles

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Matty Collector: The Streak (Justice Guild) action figure.Matty Collector is selling a set of Justice Guild figures, featuring the Justice Society stand-ins Green Guardsman (Green Lantern), The Streak (Flash), Black Siren (Black Canary) and Tom Turbine from the Justice League animated episode, “Legends” (via JSA Round Table).

Professor Zoom (The Reverse Flash) - JLA Classified Series 3 DC Direct Action Figure.Newsarama has pictures of DC Direct’s JLA Classified Series 3, featuring such classics as Professor Zoom (more or less; the design is sort of a hybrid between Eobard Thawne and Hunter Zolomon), Superman Red (not to be confused with Superman Blue), the Atom, and Hal Jordan (special extra-grumpy edition).

Techland has a first look at the DC Chronicles: The Flash statue. This series is “created to capture the original depictions of DC Comics’ most renowned heroes” according to the DC Direct website. So far they’ve announced Golden Age Superman, Golden Age Batman, Golden Age Wonder Woman, and Golden Age Aquaman. Naturally, the next statue is Silver Age Flash.

It’s a great statue of Barry Allen, but shouldn’t a line designed around the original versions of DC’s characters feature, well, the original version of the character?

Flash Chronicles Vol.2 Coming in September

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The Source has released a list of DC collected books for fall 2010, including the second volume of The Flash Chronicles.

THE FLASH CHRONICLES VOL. 2 TP
Writer: John Broome
Artists: Carmine Infantino, Joe Giella, Murphy Anderson and others
Collects: THE FLASH #107-112
$14.99 US, 160 pg

DC has three series of books reprinting the Silver Age Flash starting from the beginning:

  • Showcase Presents: The Flash – big, cheap black-and-white collections on newsprint, typically 500-600 pages for $20.
  • The Flash Archives – hardcover, high-quality reprints on good paper, typically around 200 pages for around $50 (though you can usually find them for $30-35 online).
  • The Flash Chronicles – typical trade paperback, around 160 pages for $15.

The Archives are up to 5 volumes and reprint issues through #141 (1963). Showcase Presents… is up to 3 volumes, reprinting through #161 (1966). This new volume will bring the Chronicles up to about halfway through The Flash Archives vol.2.

Flash Soundtrack Available Today

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La La Land Records will release a 2-CD soundtrack from the 1990 Flash TV series at 3PM EST (noon PST) today. The show’s music was composed by Shirley Walker (who, in addition to her extensive film career, also did music for the 1990s Batman and Superman animated series).

Until now, the only music available from the show was the title theme composed by Danny Elfman, on Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 2

The 2-disc set is a limited run of 3,000 and features music from the following episodes:

  • Pilot
  • Captain Cold
  • The Trickster
  • Watching the Detectives
  • Ghost in the Machine
  • Done with Mirrors
  • Fast Forward
  • Trial of the Trickster

You can read more, including a full track list, in this thread at Film Score Monthly.

Update: The album page is up with a full track list and free sample tracks (and the cover art, which I’ve copied here). Crimson Lightning talks about how the music enhanced the show.

(Thanks to Jeff Murphy for the info!)

More Speedster HeroClix: Inertia and Kid Zoom!

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Wow, this is just the week for DC speedsters over at WizKids, isn’t it? Today they unveiled two new figures from the Brave and the Bold expansion set: Kid Zoom and Inertia.

Yes, two different identities of Bart Allen’s dark twin, Thaddeus Thawne. And because Thad took on the Kid Zoom identity after training under Hunter Zolomon, the two figures actually have different powers. Head over to the article for more photos, plus the cards and dials.

(Thanks to Devin “The Flash” Johnson for the link!)

Blue Lantern Flash HeroClix

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HeroClix is working on a Blackest Night starter set featuring the heroes and villains deputized in Blackest Night #6, and has been releasing photos and descriptions over at the WizKids Games blog. Today’s entry isn’t up yet…but ICv2 has the Blue Lantern Barry Allen figure.

I think this is the clearest depiction I’ve seen of Barry Allen’s Blue Lantern costume. The BN:Flash #3 cover comes close, but parts of the design are still obscured by lightning.

Click over to ICv2 for the description, card and dial.