Flashy links:

• That F’ing Monkey: Flash Figure Thoughts.
• Now Read This! reviews The Flash: The Human Race
• JesterGoblin reviews DC Universe Action League: Flash & Captain Boomerang
• Flash Facts about The Flash: The Dastardly Death of the Rogues at The Source
• Flashpoint and Francis Manapul hit mainstream news via the Associated Press: At DC, The Flash speeds forward to big event
• IGN reviews Flash #9
• Comic Book Revolution reviews Flash #9

General comics links:

• The Fwoosh talks with Derick Deller and Brandon Sopinsky on Young Justice Action Figures
• Wired reviews Daytripper. I read the miniseries last year, and definitely recommend it. Daytripper TPB at Amazon
• Comics Worth Reading: The Wrong Direction: Browser-Specific Comic Sales
• Comics Alliance untangles Marvel’s digital comics options
• 10 Comic Book Characters to Watch in 2011 – Brain Candy Comics
• Newsarama breaks down the Titans’ checkered history with romance.
• Todd Klein Chooses Comics’ Greatest Logos.
• Steve Niles’ Creator-Owned Spotlight #1: Mike Mignola
• I always wondered how to answer that job interview question. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Flash and Speedsters

• Todd Klein: And Then I Read: THE FLASH 5.
• Written World: Defending Quicksilver
• Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe (yes, there’s a Flashpoint connection) from That F’ing Monkey.
• The m0vie blog looks back at Geoff Johns’ First Run on The Flash: Rogues, Crossfire & Blitz
• You can now read The Kingdom: Kid Flash as a digital comic.
• Giant-Size Geek: Flash covers by Brian Bolland.

Fan Art

• Dennis Culver puts neglected super-heroes to work as members of Batman, Inc. at ComicsAlliance. Naturally, my favorite is Wally West, the Batman of Keystone City.
• The Line It Is Drawn #26 homages classic comic covers with new characters, ocusing on a romance theme in honor of Valentine’s Day. Move over Archie/Betty/Veronica: Here’s Clark/Diana/Lois!

More Comics

• A history of DC Comics & superhero MMOs at GamePro.
• WonderAli’s Top 5: Superheroes I Would Totally Marry at iFanboy.
• Weisman & Vietti On The Age of Young Justice at Comic Book Resources.
• That F’ing Monkey weighs in on The Great Comic Debate.
• Law and the Multiverse categorizes Non-Human Intelligences like Gorilla Grodd and the Thinker.
• One Way or Another, These Things Come to Pass. It’s a Flashpoint teaser and Time Masters: Vanishing Point spoiler all in one!
• Grumpy Old Fan on The earnestness of being important: Flashpoint, Time Masters and More (Robot 6)
• The Nerdy Bird reviews DC Super-Pets.

Interesting links spotted over the past week.

Art, webcomics and humor:

• Calamities of Nature: Bad Investments looks back at the comics speculator boom and bust of the 1990s.
• Comic Critics: Please Turn the Dark Back On takes on the hazards of the Spider-Man Musical.
• The Alarmingly Specific Comic Book Ratings You Won’t Be Seeing at ComicsAlliance
• Gutters: DC Drops the Comics Code Seal (NSFW Language)
• Comic strip mashups by Ryan Dunlavey
• Batman Vs. The Internet by Caldwell Tanner and Kevin Corrigan on CollegeHumor
• Huge round-up of fan art at Comics Alliance.

Reviews:

• Review: DC Super-Pets Books 1-6 at Trade Reading Order. (The Fastest Pet on Earth is about Wonder Woman’s kangaroo? OK, I can see the cheetah connection, but talk about a missed opportunity! On the plus side, they have Dex-Starr…)
• Flash Mego Retro Review by That F’ing Monkey
• Review: Born to Run at Trade Reading Order

Other:

• Original 1959 ad for The Flash at Comics Should Be Good.
• The Beat on the end of Wizard Magazine and Toyfare
• DC Comics Characters in Need of Showrunners at Television Without Pity – Imagine Aaron Sorkin writing The Flash! (via @SpeedsterSite)
• The Life, Death and Life of Superheroes at the New York Times. (And for extra-coolness: they linked to my bio of Barry Allen!)
• Newsarama’s Eulogy to Wizard Magazine.
• Building a Better Digital Comics Marketplace – IGN
• John Ostrander: Exclusive Interview with Firestorm Fan
• Defending Quicksilver at Written World.

Flashy links:

• Webcomic The Gutters on Flashpoint
• That F’ing Monkey has some Flashpoint Speculation on the extended Flash family.

Other links:

• In Defense of Dots: The lost art of comic books – Four Color Process
• Superman In Four Panels by Ty Templeton
• An Interesting Effect of the Pervasiveness of Shared Continuity observed at Comics Should Be Good
• The Beat interviews the authors of Law and the Multiverse
• CBR on turning failed movie scripts into comics
• No, Betelgeuse is not likely to explode in 2012 (or even ~600 years before 2012). It could go any time in the next 100,000 years, and when it does, it’s too far away to hurt us here on Earth.

Flashy links:

• Images: Flash in DC Universe Online
• Giant Sized Flash Friday: Tiny Toy Review from That F’ing Monkey

General comics links:

• For and Against DC Comics Presents ~ Collected Editions
• Marc Guggenheim on his Justice Society plans including Mayor Jay Garrick.
• See Something? Cite Something. (How to share content on the Internet)
• 5 Rules for Adapting a Comic Book to Film – Mania.com
• Origins of the sidekick at USA Today.
• Double Dipping: Rebuying Our Entertainment | Fandomania (to say nothing of VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray)
• ComiXology digital comics on Android, reviewed by Comics Worth Reading
• Is DC Comics a two-man operation? – Robot 6
• Convention Tips from Zach Weiner (SMBC) on meeting artists & writers.
• Etsy Made Me Do It at Newsarama
• Young Justice producers’ Q&A