Flash links:

• The Absorbascon watches as Barry Allen defeats Genre Blindness by asking, just where do those costumed crooks get their outfits?
• First Comics News presents Darkmark’s index of The Flash (Earth-One)
• That F’ing Monkey wonders just what it is about the Flash and cars — and, of course, motorcycles.
• Designrfix collects Flash-inspired artwork.
• Robbers suck cash from safes with a vacuum. I know I’ve read this in a silver-age Flash comic or two!

Around the comics ’verse.

• Spinoff asks: Has Warners Waited Too Long to exploit DC’s movie potential?
• Lex Luthor learns what it means to mess with Grodd.
• The Beat analyzes DC Comics’ July sales.
• Gender-swapped Scott Pilgrim cast at Project Rooftop by Jemma Salume.
• Great interview with Mike Carey on The Unwritten at Newsarama.
• The Beat collects quotes on The WildStorm Legacy.
• Ty Templeton rates the Top Seven WildStorm Comics.

A little weekend linkblogging…

• The Absorbascon is back, and has two new Flash posts. First, it turns its all-seeing eye back to Silver-Age Iris Allen. Second, it looks back at how Barry Allen defeated genre blindness in comic books.
• The poster for Lady Mechanika caught my eye at Comic-Con this summer. Sort of a steampunk cyborg detective. Issue #0 ships this month.
• DC Comics LEGACIES: A Field Guide #3: FLASH FACTS.
• That F’ing Monkey discovers the problem with wings at the speed of sound.
• DC is really doing the Larfleeze Christmas Special that Geoff Johns has been talking about.
• 8 classic Disney princesses reimagined as superheroes.
• Damien’s Omens reviews Flash: Rebirth.
• Gender-swapped Scott Pilgrim cast by Jemma Salume at Project Rooftop (via Comics Worth Reading)
• Flash’s rival Keystone-City hero Argus makes CSBG’s list of top five Bloodlines characters.

Art & Costumes

• Fred Hembeck’s Rogue’s Gallery illustration is up at Heritage Auctions.
• 52 Supervillains (via Blastr, I think)
• Titans Tower has pictures from the Titans Together! photoshoot at Dragon-Con. (And don’t miss the sketches from Baltimore that he’s been posting).
• Once Upon a Geek’s Dragon*Con Photos are up!

News & Interviews

• Comic Attack reports on a probably-inflated big-ticket Flash auction.
• Pop Culture Zoo interviews Francis Manapul

Commentary

• 4thLetter’s David Brothers asks, Is it time to leave the past behind?. Kalinara responds at Pretty, Fizzy Paradise, explaining Why I Love Legacy Characters.
• Collected Editions has updated the DC TPB Timeline with Sandman, Doom Patrol, and Countdown to Final Crisis.
• Quick Time looks back at Zoom to Zoom and speculates on the inevitable Zoom Family.
• How much does it cost to make a comic? (via The Beat)
• Newsarama’s Jill Pantozzi considers: If the Teen Titans had to get summer jobs…
• Newsarama’s Friday Flashback: 1986 – The Biggest Year in Comics
• I can’t remember if I linked to these Flash-inspired shoes already.
• Now Read This! reviews Flash: The Wild Wests.