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Speed Reading

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A whole bunch of linkblogging for the week!

Reviews and Commentary

The Comic Treadmill is doing summer reruns with a look back at Flash v.2 #206-219 from 2005.

Blog@Newsarama looks at a panel from Blackest Night #1 and concludes that Barry died sometime between 1991 and 1996 if “the internet” is new to him today…and then there’s his using the term “geek” to refer to himself and Clark Kent, and Grant Morrison’s comment that “When geeks get power, you get Hitler.” Um…yeah.

Comix 411 reviews Green Lantern #44, guest starring the Flash.

Video Store Blues shows a couple of pages from the 2000 Superman and Bugs Bunny miniseries, featuring the Flash vs. the Road Runner.

The Weekly Crisis wishes DC and Marvel would engage in more world-building dealing with the impact of superheroes on Earth, like the Flash Museum and Superhero Memorial Day.

News and Interviews

CBR interviews Karl Kerschl and editor Marc Chiarello on Wednesday Comics

CBR has their own write-up of the DC Universe panel.

The Source has pictures from Geoff Johns and Dan Didio on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

The Source announces JSA All-Stars, a spinoff of Justice Society of America, and Newsarama interviews Matt Sturges.

Art

Comics Should Be Good has a John Byrne commission showing Doctor Doom defeating various DC heroes including Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash.

CBR has The Nerdy Bird’s Flight to San Diego, including pictures of her as a Red Lantern with her custom-made plush Dex-Starr, Red Lantern Kitty of Rage!

The webcomic Kidd and Geezer presents Kiddo Cosplays at SDCC [link gone] with a trio of super-heroes who all have something in common…

Sunday at Comic-Con (in Tweets)

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  • Retweeting @GreatWhiteSnark: RT @slashfilm: A real life light cycle in Flynn’s Arcade.
  • RT @SpeedsterSite: OH NO! The Flash: Rebirth #4 pushed back again! Set to release August 26th.
  • Retweeting @SpeedsterSite: RT: @CBR CCI: Geoff Johns on “All Flash”
  • Slept in today. Just got to the floor and I’d swear it’s more crowded than Saturday. Weird.
  • Oh, good, Mark Waid has a line today.
  • OMG Nichelle Nichols!
  • Scored a copy of the Flash:Rebirth #3 Variant! Wish I’d remembered to look BEFORE yesterday’s Geoff Johns signing, though
  • Overheard on return to convention center: “Air conditioning! Woo hoo!”
  • Creepy couple costume: Comedian & battered Silk Spectre from Watchmen. Just saw them pose for a photo w/him hitting her. Messed up.
  • Home from SDCC! Will post today’s pics (w/ decent bandwidth finally!) & unpack a bit, then sleep.

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Saturday at Comic-Con (in Tweets)

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  • All right! Friday’s photos actually uploaded overnight!
  • Just walked up to Mark Waid for autograph at Boom booth, no line. How times change.
  • Had no idea Leonard Nimoy & Brent Spiner were going to be here.
  • Took a trip thru Artists alley, then rushed 3/4 of the exhbit hall to DC booth. Forgot how far it was.
  • Saw Harley Quinn skipping merrily along. With a gun, of course.
  • Got a great Madame Xanadu sketch by Amy Hadley & Richard Friend! #Vertigo
  • Batgirl, Harley Quinn & Power Girl @ DC booth
  • Dark Reign Panel: “How do you want Norman Osborn taken down?” Kid dressed as Vision: “Honestly? Howard the Duck.” *applause* “Or Deadpool.”
  • Today is trade-off day. Couldn’t choose btw Quick Draw & Sheldon Moldoff, skipped both to do Madame Xanadu

  • Black Lantern Captain America!
  • Liveblogging DC Universe Panel
  • Thought my legs were shaking. Understandable for 3rd day of con. Turned out to be the floor.
  • Could really use Google Maps for con floor. Search by booth name, get directions. At least the pull-out map shows major booths.
  • Whoa. Saw a Princess Leia who was fully clothed.
  • Fought thru G4 crowd to get Coraline exclusive figure at next booth over.
  • All right!!! RT @Robot6 Gail Simone’s Welcome to Tranquility will return at Wildstorm
  • Ran into a 3rd Jay Garrick a few minutes back. Most years I don’t see any Flashes at all!
  • Newsarama covers DCU panel
  • Whew! Made it through Geoff Johns signing. Going to try for PAD and Bryan Lee O’Malley, then call it a day.
  • 4 signings, 1 panel, caught 4 artists/writers at booths/artists’ alley. Feet ready to fall off. Done for the day
  • Those searchlights should have the Bat Signal

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Friday at Comic-Con (in Tweets)

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Around the Con

  • Apparently the secret to uploading photos in this hotel is to wait until 6am when there’s no competition.
  • The fastest man alive…stuck in traffic.
  • Saw Michael Jackson.
  • Lots of *ahem* Flash photography today
  • Morning shaping up well. Got lassoed into DC costume photoshoot, got 3D photo w/wife (also in costume) & made it into Coraline room
  • Haven’t been to a con in costume since 2003, and then it was Riff from Sluggy Freelance. Not terribly recognizable.
  • But showing up as the Jay Garrick Flash? That stands out!
  • *sigh* someone just said “excuse me, Flash Gordon.”
  • In last hour or so have posed with Captain Hammer, Catwoman, Liberty Belle and Stargirl. Now in line for DC Nation.
  • Hah! Just ran into a JSA group w/ another Jay Garrick!
  • Insta-mob just formed around Olivia Munn (?) As she headed to the panelist entrance.
  • Another insta-mob as Robert Rodriguez left panel.
  • Just saw a Geonosis Padme with a little girl dressed as Princess Leia from A New Hope

Panels: Coraline, Flash Forward, DC Nation

  • Coraline making-of w/Selik, Gaiman, animators & cast.Selik wants to do stop-motion Sandman, Neil wishes him luck w/WB
  • Forgot there was actually a Flash connection w/ Flash Forward: Marc Guggenheim & David S Goyer.
  • They just showed the 1st 2 acts of the Flashforward pilot and it’s AWESOME!
  • Dominic Monaghan confirmed for Flashforward. And he’s here.
  • Liveblogging DC Nation

Evening

  • Cleaned up after day in costume, back at hotel restaurant. Planning to return for “Worst Cartoons Ever”
  • Awesome! RT @Robot6 SDCC ’09 | Scott Pilgrim video game is on the way.
  • Missed shuttle by 10 sec, chased, locked out. Ran, walked, jogged 1+ miles & took a pedicab. Chain broke. Made it w/5min to spare
  • Worst Cartoons Ever: mix of poorly-done, or trippy crack, or seriously offensive WTF-were-they-thinking cartoons from the 50s&60s

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Thursday at Comic-Con (in Tweets)

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  • Harvey Dent would love Cafe 222 on 2nd.
  • Anyone need a new front door?
  • In line for Bryan Lee O’Malley. #SDCC not horrendously crowded…yet.
  • Scary costume #843: bearded guy in diaper, leather vest & fur hat. Hazards of SDCC
  • Took me a few seconds to realize it, but an old man just walked by dressed as Carl from Up.
  • Aha, loud cheers a few minutes back were for Gwar
  • Not sure I’ll make it to the Geoff Johns spotlight. This line’s awfully long for this size room.
  • Oh well, at least I got to the @radiomaru spotlight. That was worth it.
  • Lunchtime sights: Ariele meets Ursula. Wonder Woman tries to cross Sails & gets stopped every 10ft for photo requests
  • *whew* made it into the room for Geoff Johns spotlight.
  • Liveblog: Geoff Johns Spotlight
  • Spent an hour or two hanging out with friends at The Field.
  • In line for Mad Science. Had no idea it would be so crowded at this hour.
  • 3 more days of walking like this I should be able to run one of those pedicabs
  • Saw a zombie reading Fahrenheit 451.
  • Overheard at SDCC: “Sigourney Weaver and my mind explode.”
  • Made it into Mad Science! 3 for 3 for Thursday!
  • Write-up: Mad Science
  • I do not understand the Free Hugs phenomenon.
  • WTF? Overheard at SDCC: “Did that one guy just say the culture of China hasn’t changed in *snicker* 50 years?!? *giggle*”
  • Sitting in a back hallway. Setting sun streaming through windows.
  • An unusually large concentration of Star Trek costumes and t-shirts coming out of this Star Trek panel at SDCC. Seems logical.
  • Uploading next batch of photos.

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Preview Night at Comic-Con (in Tweets)

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  • RT @Robot6: SDCC ’09 | Mark Waid takes a turn as radio DJ on KCRW
  • In San Diego, checked into hotel. Free wifi = yay!
  • Hotel room has great view of…the roof. Whee.
  • Serious fans! RT @Robot6: SDCC ’09 | Behold the power of Twilight: More than 100 Twilight fans already are lined up.

At the Con

  • Badge pick-up took 5 minutes from arival at con. And hey, I have ANOTHER copy of Blackest Night #0!
  • Wed night: the only time you’ll see the Mrs Fields carts without a line.
  • Simple costume: walking bulletin board.
  • Huge line at Graphitti T-shirt booth for Green Lantern figures.
  • First person in Twilight line has a dome tent.
  • Not many costumes at preview night, but a few. Sitting on shuttle behind Wonder Girl & (I think) Ravager.
  • Uploading first batch of photos to Flickr account over slow hotel wifi

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