Some weekend linkblogging.

First the Flashy stuff…

• Mark Waid reveals the Secret First Appearance of the Flash at Blastoff Comics
• Moment of the Day – Flash vs. Black Racer at The Weekly Crisis
• Flash drive pun fail at Failbook
• 5 inch Flash at That F’ing Monkey
• Adobe has announced that they’re shutting down mobile Flash for Android 4.1. Some of the articles in the tech press have taken a punny approach, like VentureBeat and Techcitement. I actually would have gone with the second issue of “Emergency Stop,” but I think Techcitement’s choice of “You’ll never run again” is better, because of the double meaning of “run” when it comes to software.

Some art…

• What if Pixar made a Justice League movie? at Kotaku
• If comic characters had been created by VERY different artists – CSBG
• You’re reading Little League, the fan webcomic about the Justice League as elementary school children, right?
• Interview with Dustin Koetsch, artist of DC Minimalist Posters, at Firestorm Fan
• Tons of new Flash & Rogues scans & fan art at The Rogues Kick Ass

Catching up on some linkblogging for the last few weeks…

Flash Collectibles

• Blackest Night Flash Halloween Costume at The Fastst Fan Alive. Three letters: W. T. F.
• Mini-Mates Flash (TFFA)
• Flash in Action League at That F’ing Monkey
• Flash and the Big Bang Theory – That F’ing Monkey
• The Flash x Mimoco Mimobot Flash Drive Pictures at The Fastest Fan Alive
• Eaglemoss Mirror Master – That F’ing Monkey

Flash Art

• The travels of Funko Flash (by Frankie Gatdula)
• Ouch! Speed Farce by ~JoeEngland on deviantART
• The Secret Origin of the Flash…Revealed! by Francis Manapul. I’d always wondered what chemicals were on that shelf.

Flash Commentary

• Superman v. Flash – not the way you think, though — Barry Allen’s Comics and more
• The Flash makes Newsarama’s list of the Best DC NEW 52 Series So Far
• DC’s approach to Wally West and how he can (or can’t) fit into the New 52 (A Wild Crisis Appears!)
• Beyond the Panels: Why I love The Flash
• Culture of Craig: Flashback, Looking back on years as a Flash fan
• Where’s Wally?: A Fangirl’s Search for The Missing Flash – Noise Shark Media
• Flash’s Rogues vs.Captain America’s Rogues Gallery
• Comic book job evaluations: Barry Allen, forensic scientist

• Who influenced DC Comics more: Wolfman/Perez or Moore? – Grumpy Old Fan (Robot 6)
• DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: April 2012 — The Beat. “Given high-ticket writer Geoff Johns’ absence, this is probably one of the surprise hits among the bunch”
• Long-term impact of the New 52 on DC sales – comiks debris
• Kotaku: The Lego Batman 2 Video Game Might Know What Kids Want Out of Comics Better Than Comics Do
• When Words Collide: D&D and the Myth of the Rational Reader
• This WSJ article on Leaping Tall Buildings takes some cheap shots at current mainstream comics creators, but has some good points too.
• Before Watchmen arrives; trade-waiters are bored – Collected Editions
• Update: Ty Templeton steps into the ring with Before Bun Toons