Weekend linkblogging.

Flash Links

• DC Comics Reboot Review: The Flash (Three If By Space)
• Steampunk Captain Cold, Grodd & Flash (Speed Force Wayback Wednesday)
• Wally West and Linda Park in Super-Critique’s series on cute comic couples
• That F’ing Monkey interviews John Sazaklis, writer of DC Super-Pets books including Salamander Smackdown (featuring the Flash’s pet turtle, the Terrific Whatzit)
• Art process: Flash #6 (Francis Manapul)
• The Flash 6 reviewed at Retcon Punch
• Speedjumping back into The Flash (Comics Vanguard)
• Review: The Flash #6 at CBR
• Flash #6 Review at IGN
• Make it So: Green Lantern & Flash – Together Again For the First Time! (Panels on Pages)
• Jay Garrick by Yildiray Cinar

And don’t forget tons of stuff at Fastest Fan Alive and The Rogues Kick Ass.

More Comics Links

• Review: Justice League Doom Blu-Ray at DVDs Worth Watching (Comics Worth Reading)
• 5 reasons to worry about comics that aren’t piracy (The Comics Reporter)
• No, It’s Not Equal – CSBG on the difference between male and female objectification in comics.
• State of the Comics Industry by Comics Beat
• How many pages of a digital comic get read at one sitting? (Comics Beat)
• Fan Art: Comics Characters and Music Album Covers (CSBG’s The Line It Is Drawn)
• Mark Waid & Truly Digital Comics experiments at Media Commons
• Is there really a public domain anymore? Comics Worth Reading considers the implications of ERB’s suit against Dynamite over comics based on the public-domain John Carter of Mars novels. (NSFW images from the Dynamite covers)
• Selling a comic collection by 365 Days of Comics. Some options to consider when you reach the point where you have too many comics. I’m doing the same thing (not my whole collection, though!) for a lot of the same reasons. And I suspect I’m selling them to the same store, since it was The Comic Bug that linked to the article.

• Five Goofiest Moments in Flash #127-131 (Comics Should Be Good!)
• OK, Im a week late on this, but Bun Toons takes on Before Watchmen (Ty Templeton’s ART LAND)
• The DC Trade Paperback Timeline from Collected Editions is now available as an ebook
• Character spotlight: The Shade (The Outhousers)
• The 10 Strangest Short-Lived Supervillain Makeovers (IO9)
• Neal Adams & Carmine Infantino Announced as Florida Supercon 2012 Guests of Honor
• Comic Mix reviews Justice League: Doom
• The Line It Is Drawn: After Watchmen (CSBG)
• Science Fiction Needs More Scientist Heroes as opposed to scientist villains (IO9).

• That F’ing Monkey looks back at a piece of Super Friends merchandise in I Slept With the Rogues
• @BitterWallyWest posted a mini-story on Twitter the other day. Fans of the MIA character should check it out.
• News on Brian Buccelato’s creator-owned series, Foster: Foster #2 is on its way later this month, following the same limited, self-distributed run as the first issue. A direct market edition of #1 is on its way as well, and he talks to IGN about the series.
• The creator of Ghost Rider, Gary Friedrich, not only lost a suit to reclaim ownership of the character, but has been ordered to pay Marvel $17,000 for money he’s made using the character over the years (think convention sketches). Steve Niles has set up a donation page to help him. Update: Mark Evanier weighs in on the situation.
• This week’s Wayback Wednesday is a classic Young Justice moment featuring Impulse, Superboy and the Ray. Remember when you comic was canceled?
• Added: 5 goofiest moments in Flash #127-131 at CSBG

• What would you accept to have Wally West back? That F’ing Monkey asks the question.
• That F’ing Monkey finds Flash merchandise on Zazzle
• The Flash 4 Stone Coaster Set by PopCycled on Etsy
• Top 5 Superhero Rogues’ Galleries at Mindhut. Read on to see where they placed the Flash’s enemies.
• Anniversary covers that will never be, in the latest installment of CSBG’s The Line It Is Drawn. You might want to check out their Young Justice #200 cover.
• Five Things the New 52 Did Wrong (and which books are doing it right) at Comicbook.com
• How do you want DC to collect Before Watchmen? Collected Editions considers the possibilities.
• December DC Sales Analysis at The Beat
• Plans to build an NFL stadium in Los Angeles include tearing down half the convention center to make room for the stadium, then building a new wing to make up for it. Keep that in mind in July, when the annual “Let’s move Comic-Con out of San Diego!” conversation starts up again. If this plan gets approved, it’ll take LA out of the running for a few years, but will make it a better option once it’s finished.
• Speaking of LA, you’ve got to love this headline: “Jack Sparrow” pepper-sprayed in Hollywood action figure brawl (LATimes.com)

• 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.