Your regularly scheduled weekend linkblogging…

First the Flash & Speedster stuff

• Manapul and Buccellato talk Captain Cold Redesign at CBR
• How Captain Cold got his powers, as speculated by /co/
• Flash onesies at That F’ing Monkey. I’m sure no one will be surprised that J has two of these.
• Silver Age Comics on The Flash’s Final Fling–Twice
• Flash Companion Preview: Lost Gold – Unpublished Flash Stories from the Golden Age (this week’s Wayback Wednesday)
• The Full Run: Mark Waid’s Flash (Part 2) – Comics Bulletin
• Touch of Grey’s Flash Collection
• Art Deco/Miminalist Flash & Zoom by Omnibit Designs
• A Flash bow tie – seems appropriae.
• Some blond guy cameos in The Thessaliad, a Sandman spinoff by Bill Willingham
• DCUO: Lightning Strikes trailer. I’ve lost track of whether we’ve already linked to this one from here or not.
• Character designs: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents: Lightning (the team’s resident speedster)
• Flash by Yildiray Cinar (via SpeedsterSite)
• They found Wally.
• There’s a ton of new stuff at The Rogues Kick Ass this week.

More comics-related stuff

• The Shade con sketch by Cully Hamner
• Art: 30 DC characters in a marching line by Ilias Kyriazis (via Robot 6)
• Top 10 Comic Book TV Shows at ComicBook.com. The Flash makes the list. Click through to see what else does.
• Top Ten Ways to Improve The Comic Book Retail Experience – Comics Bulletin
• With all the New 52 creative team changes, Grumpy Old Fan looks back at some notable changings of the guard at DC from the past 20 years.
• Ask Chris is Talking About Azrael, the 1990s and You at ComicsAlliance
• Comics Should Be Good celebrates 7 years! Congratulations!
• The Line It Is Drawn: Team-ups and Farewells at CSBG
• DC VP John Rood Discusses Nov. Sales Win & Future Plans at Newsarama
• Long Beach Comic Con is on Google+.

And beyond comics.

• Yes, I actually found one: Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart (Photo) – Check the sporting goods department and ask for Ash. See if they have any specials on boom sticks.
• Lunar Eclipse photos – I woke up early Saturday morning to watch the eclipse, then stayed out to watch the sunrise.

Weekend linkblogging…

• Predicting the next wave of the New 52 – Grumpy Old Fan at Robot 6
• Boilerplate for All Future Comics Articles (via @RedditComicBook)
• Celebrate Stan Lee’s 89th birthday with Shift My Gift and the Hero Initiative
• Something I found while unpacking.
• The Fearsome Powers of the Shade! Fortunately The Shade was a catchier name than The Air Purifier, and he got better powers in the Silver Age. (This was the Wayback Wednesday post for the week)
• I’m not sure who would want their underwear to say “the fastest man alive,” but hey, whatever floats your boat. ‘Heroes will rise’ in Diesel’s new DC Comics underwear – Robot 6
• Francis Manapul’s final Movember report (not a typo)
• The Terrific Whatzit returns as That F’ing Monkey reports on Salamander Smackdown from the DC-Super-Pets series.
• James Robinson is concerned about low orders on The Shade. The Beat and Grumpy Old Fan respond.
• Added: Eleflash on Threadless
• Updated: The Gutters on Gareb Shamus/Wizard World, redrawn after (apparently) Shamus threatened the original artist’s job, leading to the artist asking the site to take down his version of the strip. Relevant.

Some weekend linkblogging.

• Spoiler Sport: Flash #3 – Newsarama talks to Manapul & Buccellato.
• Black Flash Friday at That F’ing Monkey
• Can the Monorail outrun the Flash?
• Is this the end for our heroes? Shortpacked! author David Willis looks back on the Justice League Unlimited toy line and shows us such oddities as Scuba Flash, I-can-breathe-in-space Batman, and atmosphere-destroying-missile Superman.
• The DC Comics Store launches on Amazon.com
• The Line It Is Drawn: comic book characters/classic literature
• DC Fifty-TOO/Marvel Universe TOO to relaunch in 2012 as…RELAUNCHED!
• Now you can have that bacon latte you always wanted.

You get a giant-sized linkblogging post this weekend, since I was out of town last week.

Flash links

• New Flash Legacies podcast focuses on Wally West’s Flash series.
• That F’ing Monkey returns to Flashpoint and features the Eaglemoss Captain Boomerang statue
• Casting the Flash at the Twhipping Boys
• Superman trolls the Flash – Jay Garrick wants to know why he always has to to the dishes. (ComicsAlliance plugs Kerry Callen)
• The Full Run returns with Mark Waid’s Flash (Comics Bulletin).
• Translation: The Flash vs. Gurdjieff by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Comics Bulletin)
• Flash #3 art preview (Francis Manapul)
• Flash #6 cover process (Francis Manapul)
• Flash #5 sneak peek (Francis Manapul)
• The Rogues Kick Ass has been posting a lot of scans and art this past week.

More comics

• The Geoff Johns Literalism Method (Comics Alliance)
• More Family Bun Toons, YAY! Now with more BATMAN! – Ty Templeton’s ART LAND!!
• DC has canceled several announced collections. Are trade solicits really announcements, or just gauging interest? Collected Editions
• 10 Issues of Ongoing Comics that Prove Single Issues Can Be Great (IO9)
• Comikaze: DC Comics- The New 52 Q&A (Newsarama)
• The grammar of the word balloon at Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
• What to do if your favorite comic is canceled (The Fifth Color/Robot 6)
• Emerald City Comicon launches Tales from the con weekly webcomic (via Comics Worth Reading)
• Are costume changes a bad thing? (Comic Book Revolution)
• The problem with costume changes – Halloween tales from Bun Toons
• Added: Once Upon a Geek is back
• Added: Rob Kelly (The Aquaman Shrine) and Dan O’Connor’s new webcomic Ace Kilroy, featuring 1930s Indiana Jones adventure and classic movie monsters, is seeking help through Kickstarter to get it through the critical first few months.

More stuff

• Francis Manapul is growing a mustache for Movember (not a typo) to raise money to fight prostate cancer. Help sponsor him today!
• US readers: Congress is still debating a bill that would open the door to censoring the internet. Speed Force participated in American Censorship Day this past Wednesday to highlight the cause. Read about the Stop Online Piracy Act (which won’t do anything of the sort) and Protect-IP Act, then write!
• Lots of people want to write a novel. National Novel Writing Month helps them do it. I’ve participated in the event twice, and actually finished a 50,000 page word novel one year (though it’s a long way from being polished enough to share with anyone.) Help keep the program going by donating today!
• The Spam Primer (run by the author of This Is True) is worth a look. It’s a quick run-down of how spammers operate, how spam-fighting works, and what you can do to keep junk out of your mailbox.

Also, remember that Speed Force is now on Google Plus.

Between Long Beach Comic Con & some home improvement projects, I didn’t have time to do the weekend linkblogging. So, here it is!

Art

• Andy Kubert’s design for the Flashpoint Pied Piper at The Source.
• Green Lando by Joe Quinones (in response to Ming Doyle’s Flashbacca)
• Halloween at Shortpacked! includes some familiar costumes.
• Comic Book Super Bands!!! – The Line It Is Drawn #63 at Comics Should Be Good!

More stuff

• Thought-provoking discussion on the impact of canceling miniseries at Comics Worth Reading.
• Future doesn’t look bright for Wally West – Robot 6. Now there’s an understatement
• Will DC’s past catch up with it? – Grumpy Old Fan
• New Explanation for my Continuity Obsession – Collected Editions
• Flash Halloween Costumes at That F’ing Monkey

The usual weekend linkblogging…

Flash Links

• The Flash Museum Online is a new blog highlighting a Flash memorabilia collection
• Noah Van Sciver recaps Flash: Rebirth #4 – I don’t think I ever saw any of these past #3 back when they were being published through Wizard. (via TRKA)
• That F’ing Monkey: Squatz
• That F’ing Monkey: The Video Game – applying the lessons of Arkham City to the Flash.
• Flashbacca by Ming Doyle & Kevin Church — wait…What?
• Max Mercury by Brett Booth
• Classic Young Justice: Impulse, Superboy & the Ray commiserate about their comics getting canceled (CSBG)
• DCNu Kid Flash sketch gallery
• Kid Flash (new) by Todd Nauck

More stuff

• How DC Should Make Webcomics (by @SpeedsterSite)
• Superman vs. Mr. Mxytzptlk at Scrabble (and other superhero/board game combos) at CSBG
• Simpsons/Comic Book mash-ups again at CSBG
• Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex: Creators Explain How Comics Can Do Better – ComicsAlliance
• Superheroes Break For Lunch
• The State of Colleen Doran’s Industry From Print to Web: “It’s working, and I didn’t need a gag strip to make it pay.” (A Distant Soil)
• Top Ten Creative Team Shake-Ups – Comics Bulletin
• Spock’s plan to stop Darkseid – Let’s Be Friends Again takes on Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes
• SEMORDNILAP ERA TIHSLLUB! Let’s Be Friends Again uncovers Zatanna’s true nemesis. (I’ve been slowly working through the archive)
• Comics Worth Reading/DVDs Worth Watching reviews Batman: Year One
• I set up a spamtrap on this site to catch spambots. One of the more persistent ones has been sending me mail with the subject “DC Fan”…but it’s the wrong DC, and the wrong kind of fan.