Category Archives: Round-Ups

Rebirth Responses: Costumes and Identities

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Flash: Rebirth #5 has certainly gotten people talking! I’m still building a list of reviews, but here are some sites discussing major changes in costumes and identities. Beware spoilers!

High Five! Comics talks about that “new hero” who “step[s] into an old speedster’s boots” in Refrigerator Busting #2: You Know What the Speed Force Needs More Of?

Comics Alliance is thrilled that Impulse is back.

Blog@Newsarama discusses Flash Fashion.

Film Fodder considers the problem of superheroes sharing a name and looks at the broader implications of bringing back old characters instead of actually creating new ones.

Creator Catch-Up: Geoff Johns at Baltimore, Mark Waid is Incorruptible

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Geoff Johns is among the first guests announcd for next year’s Baltimore Comic-Con. The show will run August 28-29, 2010. (For fun: Say that out loud and pronounce 2010 as “twenty-ten!”)

Mark Waid talks to CBR about Incorruptible, his Irredeemable spinoff that looks at the question from the opposite side: What happens when a villain decides to become a hero?

Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-11-15

  • Even though I haven’t been bowled over by Flash: Rebirth so far, $13.59 for the hardcover is tempting.
  • Bought this week: Unwritten, Farscape: D’Argo’s Trial. I’m down to 7 regular books per month now, so 2-book weeks are common.
  • First thought on Dollhouse cancellation: after only 4 episodes? Then remembered this is Fox. That’s practically generous.
  • Are there any Blackest Night-related stories titled “Raise the Red Lantern?”
  • If you get email claiming to be a fix for Conficker from Microsoft, DON’T INSTALL IT. They do NOT send patches by email.
  • A week with no delays on Flash: Rebirth! #5 is still lined up for Wednesday, and #6 still says Dec. 23.

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Speed Reading

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Some linkblogging for the weekend…

Francis Manapul shares a black and white version of his variant cover for Blackest Night: The Flash #3.

Dan Didio talks to CBR about a number of things including Flash. He reiterates some of the reasons they let the book fall behind rather than put a new team on it to bring it out quickly, like they did with Final Crisis:

That ran with some delays, but at the end of the day we looked at the full package of how that will look as a book, and we wanted to maintain consistency all the way through. The events of that book weren’t essential to what happens with the Flash in “Blackest Night.”

Nothing new. In fact he said more or less the same thing a couple of days earlier to Newsarama. Interestingly, he describes the new Flash series book as spinning out of Blackest Night. Whether that’s simply in publishing terms, or in story terms as well, is not clear.

Collected Editions compares the Final Crisis and Blackest Night collections.

The Flash in New Frontier makes Comics Should Be Good’s 313th cool comic book moment.

Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-11-08

Highlights from the week’s Twitter activity:

Search Subjects

  • Someone searched for a *review* of Flash: Rebirth #5. Talk about overly optimistic.
  • Brand confusion: someone searched for Wizard World San Diego.
  • Character confusion: a search for “Flash Gordon Shazam”

Not Wizard World

  • And the name conversion is complete: Wizard just announced tickets for “Philadelphia Comic Con 2010 Wizard World Convention”
  • Actually, it sounds less like a name and more like an exercise in keyword stuffing.
  • I wonder what “Philadelphia Comic-Con” (with a dash) will have to say about that name. Especially considering it’s this weekend.

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Speed Reading: Collections, Modern Masters, and Silver-Age Science

Some linkblogging for the weekend:

Collected Editions has spotted info on the Wenesday Comics hardcover, Final Crisis paperback and more.

Silver Age Gold points out that the science in the Flash…doesn’t always make sense.

TwoMorrows is holding a $10 sale on Modern Masters books, focusing on artists from Mike Allred to Mike Wieringo (with other artists who aren’t named Mike!).