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Linkage: Velocity and MK vs. DC

Various news bits today:

Newsarama interviews Joe Casey on his upcoming Velocity series starring the speedster from Cyberforce

Justice League: The New Frontier has been nominated for an Emmy award (via Blog@Newsarama)

Mike Schramm of Joystiq got to play a demo of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe at E3 last weekend. (via Blog@Newsarama)

For their part, [senior designer Brian] Lebaron did say that Midway is trying to push the line as much as possible, both with DC and with the ESRB (the game is set to be rated T): he showed us a Scorpion fatality against the Flash where Bart Allen (at least we saw him as Bart Allen — when we asked Lebaron which Flash he was, Midway said they weren’t choosing a certain one) fell to the ground, his costume and skin charred and burned.

“Blood Will Run” Back In Print

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Blood Will RunReaders trying to track down Geoff Johns’ run on The Flash frequently run into a problem: most of the trades are out of print, and the high demand drives up the prices on the secondhand market. Fortunately, it looks like DC is doing something about it. Earlier this year, DC re-issued Flash: Blood Will Run, collecting Johns’ first storyline as regular writer (his previous story, Wonderland — finally collected in paperback last fall — was essentially a try-out). The new edition added something else that had been hard to find: the one-shot graphic novel, Flash: Iron Heights. Now, according to this week’s DC Comics Direct Channel (a newsletter sent out to retailers), that new edition is getting a second printing.

Also in the newsletter: the upcoming hardcover of The Wild Wests, featuring the first arc of the Wally West relaunch and Mark Waid’s brief return to the book, is being delayed a week until August 6.

Flash Movie Standing Still

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/Film got a little more info out of The Dark Knight producer Charles Rovan:

“We had hoped to be able to get a new draft going before the writers’ strike and we weren’t able to,” Rovan admitted. “And since the writers’ strike, we just haven’t been able to find the right creative compatibility between what we’re looking for and a writer and you know, we’re a little bit dragging our feet, we’re just waiting to see what’s going to happen with this actor’s strike, you know.”

(via FusedFilm)

On the plus side, there’s that Warner Bros/DC film summit that’s been making the rounds of comics blogs lately. Perhaps once the labor issues are resolved, we’ll see some more movement?

And yes, “looking at how best to exploit the DC Comics characters and properties” is an appropriate description, if a bit blunt. Warner Bros. is a movie studio. Neil Gaiman sums up the typical Hollywood take on source material in his short story, “The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories” (in Smoke and Mirrors):

She managed a pitying look, of the kind that only people who know that books are, at best, properties on which films can be loosely based, can bestow on the rest of us.

Rogues’ Revenge Preview

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Newsarama has posted a 5-page preview of Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge #1, due in stores on Wednesday.

One of the best things about Geoff Johns’ run on The Flash was his handle on the Rogues. During his time on the book, he did five “Rogue Profile” issues, each with one of the villains as the viewpoint character. He’d get inside their heads, show how they thought, why they ran around with high-tech mirrors, or freeze guns, etc. When he left the book, I’d kind of hoped he’d drop in once a year or so to do another Rogue issue between the regular writers’ story arcs. Obviously, it didn’t happen

The preview pages show that Johns’ characterization is still spot-on, and the art by Scott Kolins shows a team of villains who have been through hell. (Actually, they have been through hell, but that was a while back, between Underworld Unleashed and “Hell to Pay.”)

(Thanks to Craig M.D. for pointing this one out.)