Linkblogging catch-up continues!

Art and comic strips

• Flash cake
• Rogues in art for a canceled Justice League game (via @Speedstersite)
• Comic Book Hollywood Casting
• You should really check out this XKCD comic in a couple of different web browsers to experience the full effect. Some of them change when you resize the window, too.
• Schrödinger’s comic by Comic Critics

Comics industry

• Origins of the Speech Balloon – Lew Stringer via The Beat
• End of the Thought Balloon – Joe Hill (Robot6)
• Mark Waid on print vs. digital (Robot6), and the cold math about print comics (MarkWaid.com)
• Reading Comics and the Stickiness Factor (Westfield Comics, via Comics Worth Reading)
• When comic shops don’t carry non-superhero books that their customers want. (Every Day is Like Wednesday, via Comics Worth Reading)
• Paul Duffield tries to put numbers to gender imbalance in the comics industry.
• March comics sales ranks. Looks like AvX finally pushed Flash out of the top 10

Other Stuff

• For the Doctor Who fans: The Hipster Companion by The Nerdy Bird
• Do dead links matter? (me at Hyperborea)
• DC/Marvel Characters Tournament Winner at CSBG
• Need Coffee writes about Animated Anthem Day, the crossover we participated in on Tuesday.
• Digital comic: Division 18: The Union of Novelty Costumed Performers
• The Juggernaut almost flattens Harry Potter and other comic book Easter eggs at CSBG

Still catching up on linkblogging.

Flash-focused:

• Comic Book Movie fan casts the New 52 Flash
• Flash Mob at Superheroes Memebase
• TFAW interviews Manapul & Buccellato on the Flash
• Update: Francis Manapul spotlight at Emerald City Comicon

More DC Comics links:

• James Robinson reveals more on Earth-2, plus the cover for issue #3 starring Alan Scott. Apparently people on Earth-2 scream a lot. He continues to talk about world building and the Earth-2 trinity
• Dan Didio’s favorite comics listed at CBR. More commentary at the Beat.
• Our Valued Customers comments on the new DC Comics logo 
• DC’s Jason James talks about the New DC Comics Website
• Talking about the DC Trade Paperback Timeline ebook (Collected Editions)
• Comicmix asks: Which is the REAL DC Earth?
• Earth-53 and the Disconnect between Comics and TV (The ComiQuad)
• Update: DC’s New 52 Action Figures have changed a bit

I’ve gotten a bit behind in these linkblogging round-ups, so I’m breaking the backlog up into categories. Here’s the first chunk of Flash-focused links from the last few weeks.

• The Silver-age Scarlet Speedster at Blastoff
• Francis Manapul art process for Flash #7 opening scene: tmblr.co/Z2siIxIbkMco
• 1940s DC Comics house ad for All-Flash, plugging the first appearance of Star Sapphire. bit.ly/yACXep
• Lego Batman 2 gets super-friends including Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash & others. That F’ing Monkey asks: Where’s the Flash LEGO?
• Angry Birds Space’s new look for blue birds seems oddly familiar (That F’ing Monkey)
• Flash wallets (That F’ing Monkey)

Flash and Others…

• 6 Psychotic Punishments Doled Out by Famous Superheroes (Cracked.com) – I was expecting to see Wally’s freezing of Inertia in here, but they went with the similar trap-Zoom-in-a-time-fissure ending from “Blitz.”
• 6 superheroes who got their powers from being lousy scientists (Not Cracked, as you might have expected, but Blastr, via @LongBeach_CC)
• Six Degrees of Comics: the Terrific Whatzit to Uatu the Watcher (CSBG)
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy shows that were ahead of their time (IO9)
• DC Comics’ film opportunities beyond Superman and Batman (Panels on Pages)

And finally, a reminder from @SpeedsterSite:

Hey retailers, you should know this by now but apparently, you don't. Never underestimate the power of an IMPULSE buy. #comics

— Brandan (@SpeedsterSite) March 28, 2012

Weekend linkblogging…

Flashy

• BLAARGH! Asks, Where’s Wally West?! – Panels on Pages
• The Shade by Scott Kolins (TRKA)
• Jay and The Daly Superheroes – That F’ing Monkey
• Trading Spaces by Dapper Dan – Jumping On The Flash – Bleeding Cool
• Action Figure Insider: Young Justice Kid Flash
• Flash #6 review at Comic Book and Movie Reviews
• Superman vs. the Flash…at Tag – Little League webcomic
• Life imitates art? Rebels relive glory years with Saturday reunion (video) – This band from the 1960s is getting together for a reunion gig. Lead singer Barry Allen is playing with them for the first time in over 20 years.

More comics

• Lois Lane writes a letter to DC Comics: Why Do You Keep Fridging Me? – Wired
• A look back at the origin of Image Comics: What happens when artists run the show – GeekOut/CNN
• Amusing: Moviefone calls people named John Carter in each state and asks them if they’re going to see John Carter.
• The problem with overshipping comics – Savage Critics (via Comics Worth Reading)
• DC talks February sales at Newsarama
• Multiverses and Marvels – Grumpy Old Fan talks on the changing nature of Earth-2 and the Captain Marvel family
• First six playable characters revealed for Young Justice: Legacy
• Comics are finally on time. Happy now? – The Beat