Category Archives: Out This Week

This Week’s Flash: Firestorm on TV, Digital King Shark, Top & Trickster in Back-Issues

Firestorm appears on tonight’s episode of the Flash TV series, “The Nuclear Man.” Preview here.

King Shark menaces Central City in the latest chapter of the digital comic book Flash Season Zero, released on Monday.

Two more Silver Age back-issues arrive in DC’s digital catalog on Wednesday: Flash #141 and Flash #142, featuring the Top in “The Mystery of the Flash’s Third Identity” (the first appearance of the Rogues’ tailor, Paul Gambi) and the Trickster in “The Perilous Pursuit of the Trickster.” (Hey, you didn’t think it was going to be Captain Cold in that title, right?)

Flash #141

This Week: Crazy for You, Felicity in Print, Classic Piper and Reverse Flash

The Flash TV episode “Crazy for You” airs tonight. Based on the synopsis, this is going to be a complicated episode, with Barry meeting Linda, the team going after Peek-a-Boo, Henry Allen getting into trouble in prison, and Cisco following up on Piper’s offer to track down Ronnie.

http://youtu.be/0z8qmm8Trio

Flash: Season Zero #5 is out on Wednesday. “Smoak Signals” is a one-off adventure guest-starring Arrow’s Felicity Smoak.

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Flash #137-139 (1963) join DC’s digital backlist on Wednesday, featuring stories by Gardner Fox, John Broome, Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella:

  • Vengeance of the Immortal Villain (Barry & Jay vs Vandal Savage)
  • Pied Piper’s Double Doom (guest-starring the Elongated Man)
  • Menace of the Reverse-Flash (first appearance of Professor Zoom)

Flash #139

Big week! Piper on TV, Flash #38, Season Zero, HC vol.5: History Lessons

If you want new Flash this week, you’re in luck!

Tonight’s TV episode, “The Sound and the Fury,” introduces the TV version of the Pied Piper. Watch a preview here.

Monday saw the release of a new Flash: Season Zero digital chapter, introducing King Shark. preview at Zap2it.

And then there’s Wednesday:

Flash #38 arrives, continuing the saga of Barry Allen trapped in the speed force while the future Flash takes over his life. preview at Man Cave Daily.

Flash vol.5: History Lessons is out in hardcover, featuring the last few issues written by Brian Buccellato with art by Patrick Zircher, Agustin Padilla and others, and a one-shot by Christos Gage and Neil Googe. Flash Annual 2 (first New 52 meeting of Flash Barry Allen and Green Lantern Hal Jordan), Flash #26 (Flash vs. the Aviatrix), and Flash #27-29 (Flash and Deadman vs. the ghost of the Keystone Killer).

Finally, DC is adding three more silver-age Flash issues to the digital backlist at ComiXology and elsewhere: Flash #134-136 (1963), featuring Captain Cold, the Elongated Man, Mirror Master, and the debut of Kid Flash’s costume.

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This Week: Flash TV Returns, Digital Classics

The Flash TV show returns tonight, and it’s double trouble for the Flash with Captain Cold and Heat Wave!

DC adds three more Silver Age issues from 1962 to their digital backlist (ComiXology and other platforms) on Wednesday: The Flash #131, 132 and #133. Stories include a team-up with Green Lantern and the infamous Abra Kadabra story, “Plight of the Puppet-Flash”

Flash #133

This Week’s Flash comics: Reverse TPB, Smoak Signals, Silver Age

The conclusion of “Smoak Signals,” a two-part story in Flash: Season Zero, was released digitally on Monday.

The softcover collection of “Flash Vol.4: Reverse,” featuring the debut of the New 52 version of the Reverse Flash, is available in stores Wednesday.

1960s-era Flash #128-130 join DC’s digital backlist Wednesday, featuring…

  • The Case of the Real-Gone Flash (first appearance of Abra Kadabra)
  • The Origin of the Flash’s Masked Identity
  • Double-Danger on Earth (Barry Allen and Jay Garrick vs. Captain Cold and the Trickster
  • Who Doomed the Flash? (first time more than two Rogues appeared in the same story, but most of them are cameos and they aren’t working together yet)
  • Kid Flash Meets the Elongated Man

This Week: Flash Season Zero #4

The print edition is out in stores today:

In the stunning conclusion of our first story arc, The Flash squares off against thousands of Central City citizens under the control of the dastardly Mr. Bliss! Can the S.T.A.R. Labs crew help Barry end Bliss’s reign of terror before it’s too late?

Written by: Katherine Walczak, Brooke Eikmeier, Andrew Kreisberg. Art by Eric Gapstur, Phil Hester.

Update: I forgot to mention that DC is continuing to release 3 new Silver Age Flash issues to the digital backlist each week. Flash #124, 126 and 127 (#125, “Conquerors of Time,” was already available) include such classics as the “Space-Boomerang Trap,” “Doom of the Mirror-Flash,” and “Reign of the Super-Gorilla.”