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Flashpoint Digital Discount

It must be a week for sales. ComiXology is holding a 3-day Flashpoint sale this weekend, offering each issue of Flashpoint, its related miniseries and one-shots, and the Booster Gold tie-in issues for just 99 cents. That’s the whole thing for around $30, the cost of two trade paperbacks.

For the most part, I’ve already read what I wanted of Flashpoint. (Well, technically, I’ve read more than what I wanted, for the sake of completeness. I really could have done without Legion of Doom) But I think I may pick up Batman: Knight of Vengeance. From what I hear, a lot of fans agree that it’s the best of the lot.

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The Law of Traffic Congestion, according to “The Flash!” (Planetizen)
On the Hunt: Finding Back Issues, Then and Now (this week’s Wayback Wednesday here at Speed Force)
Our Valued Customers: While his friend was about to buy a Flash shirt…
Our Valued Customers: As his dad picked him up and carried him out of the store…
This Flash vs. Superman race is so fast, it’s over between two panels. (Single Synapse Theory on JLA #59)
DC December Sales Analysis at The Beat
K is for Kid Flash by Mista M (via FFA)
White Lantern Flash will never defeat the ultimate source of the colour spectrum. (The Rogues Kick Ass)
Actually, there’s a ton of new stuff at Lia’s The Rogues Kick Ass and at Devin’s Fastest Fan Alive this week.

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Some weekend linkblogging…

The Adventures of Flash and Treebeard at Titanzer. Now, Flash, don’t be hasty.
The DC Universe Calendar listed Wally West’s birthday as January 16. Update As Lia points out below, today is the Top’s birthday, and Grodd’s birthday was on the 13th.
HEROES!: FLASHFACTS! #4
The Flash Noir – 1940s airman-style Flash costume by ChrisBrand (via Geek Tyrant)
Who is Speed Gordon? (CSBG/Comic Legends Revealed)
Fusion of physics, comics gives speaker great power, responsibility (appropriately enough, at Cary Bates’ alma mater)
Celtic Supergirl, Puritan Green Lantern, Cavegirl Squirrel Girl and more (CSBG/The Line, It Is Drawn)
Update: That F’ing Monkey has started up Flash Friday again, featuring a 70s Flash station wagon and Impulse in Takes from the Brain Jar (Humberto Ramos convention sketch.) Update: Fixed the broken HTML

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Weekend linkblogging. First the Flashy stuff…

How I would plot a Flash movie trilogy arc thing (Mightygodking)
All Flash has to do is act naturally (Robot6 / Grumpy Old Fan)
Two more Wally West redesigns by Brett Booth from a rejected series proposal. Update: his blog post about the pitch and the designs.

More comics stuff…

Why DC’s New 52 cancellations might be a bit early at CSBG
This article is on selecting a WorldCon bid, but the section on how people rank bids seems to apply to how people choose conventions.
I don’t know what’s weirder: that Hostess is filing for bankruptcy
More animated classic covers by Kerry Callen (via Robot6
Geoff Johns on re-thinking comics for tablets (Variety)
New DC Comics flash drives from Mimobot…and yes still no Flash flash drive.
Inside Pulse’s Skitch asks: Was DC Comics Wrong to Relaunch?
Be Careful What You Wish For – ComicBook.com on bringing comic books back from the dead.

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Now that the site’s up and I have a little time to collect these, here’s your regularly-scheduled weekend linkblogging!

Flash-specific

Tyranny of the Ochlocracy: Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato’s ‘Flash’ (Comics Alliance)
Name That Flash Artist! (CSBG)
The M0vie Blog reviews Geoff Johns’ Run on The Flash – The Dastardly Death of the Rogues & The Road to Flashpoint

Fred Hembeck redoes the Flash/Robin deathtrap cover (TRKA)

A look behind the scenes at Flash #4 – art by Francis Manapul

More DC

The Greatest Super-Villian Weapon Ever? Hal Jordan vs. an angry-looking bird (Kerry Callen)
Agent of S.T.Y.L.E. – Simplifying the DC NEW 52 (Newsarama)
Starman Week at That F’ing Monkey
Cliff Chiang’s classic-anime-style Justice League of Japan designs are spotlighted at at Project Rooftop. (Previously covered here.)
Collected Editions reviews Chase, the long-awaited (and complete) collection of one of my favorite comics from the late 1990s

More Comics

DC Fifty-TOO! has relaunched as…RELAUNCHED!
A real martial artist who is also a contortionist tackles the most common female superhero pose, and posts a follow-up. (via The Beat)
Convention photos from the 1980s at The Mary Sue
Who Killed the Newsstand Market? (The Beat). Be sure to read the comments or more info.
The 50 Best Covers of 2011 (Robot 6)
Comic Book Fans, Where’s the Intelligent Discussion? (League of Comic Geeks)

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Weekend linkblogging!

Flashy links

Super Adventures in Gaming: The Flash (GB).
Eyz reviews the same game, and adds fan art.
Flash shot glasses spotted by @TheFlashReborn (twitter.com) & (twitter.com)
How a Flash vs. Batman fight would end – Conventionless Convention Sketch by Gene Gonzales

Captain Cold vs. the Mole Man by Mark Engblom, from the Profiles in Villainy series at Comic Coverage

Custom Mini-mates Rogues by Boyd at TRKA
There’s a ton of new Rogues stuff at The Rogues Kick Ass, including a series of comic panels converted to look like the style of that old 1990 video game.

More comics

Doctor Doom vs. Santa Claus by Ty Templeton
Recommended webcomic: Real Life by Greg Dean. A mix of observational humor, geek humor, and the occasional scifi adventure
Lady Sabre & The Pirates of the Ineffable Aether by Rucka & Burchett – Steampunk/Western/Pirates adventure
How Soon is Too Soon to Judge a Serialized Story? – This week’s Wayback Wednesday feature here at Speed Force
If Hollywood controlled the web
Justice League of the Internet – major websites as super-heroes (Caldwell Tanner at CollegeHumor)

More stuff.

The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments Sections Of Year-End Lists. If you’ve ever read the comments on best-of lists, you’ve seen these. (via @Ragnell)