This weekend I updated a couple of entries on Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning including the profiles for Captain Boomerang and Captain Boomerang, Jr. I also updated the Variant Covers list for the current series, adding the covers for Flash #4 and the second printing of Flash #1 (Thanks, Hyperion09!).
We just received an email from Joey Forlini the winner of Speed Force and Arroba Silver’s Design and Win Your Own Flash Ring Contest that we cosponsored a few months back. He just received the final result of his custom Flash ring design and sent us some great pictures:
First, the original winning design:
Now the final product:
Wow. A great design turned into a fantastic piece of jewelry. We have not received word about when the ring will be available for ordering but we will definitely keep you all updated. In the meantime you can check out the Arroba Silver website HERE. Officially licensed by DC Comics to sell DC Comic-related jewelry, Arroba Silver has a wide variety of rings, earrings and even cufflinks inspired by the world’s greatest superheroes and most notorious supervillains (except for the Rogues who are horribly underrepresented and don’t like being called supervillains). They are still offering readers of Speed Force a 10% discount on any order. Go to Arrobasilver.com, pick your items, enter code: GA001 during checkout, and save 10%.
For all that entered, followed the contest, and check out this site, thank you again for all the support. You helped make this contest a huge success and we hope to get something like it going again sometime soon. (I know we keep saying that but I promise something awesome is coming up)
Oh and before I forget Joey also sent me an flashtastic picture of a smart car his local comic shop owner had customized to promote his store, The 4th Wall:
You can visit the store’s online website, HERE. Based in Canada, they aim to make comics as accessible as possible by bringing a friendly atmosphere for new and old readers to their store. Plus they price all of their books at U.S. prices. So if you are in Canada and looking to save a few bucks drop by. You might still be able to see that car too.
Pictured in the photo is our contest winner, Joey Forlini.
Thanks for reading.
I’m not at preview night, but I will be in San Diego over the next few days for Comic-Con International. Mostly I plan on having fun, but I do plan to cover some of the DC panels live.
Since my old Twitter-to-liveblogging solution doesn’t seem to be working anymore (I don’t know whether it’s changes in WordPress or changes in Twitter), I’ve gone looking for alternatives and settled on Cover It Live. Among other things, it not only handles live updating from my end, it will also automatically update your view, so you don’t have to sit there hitting reload. They officially support the iPhone, and it seems to work on Android as well, though I have no idea how well other mobile devices will handle it.
The panels I’m planning to cover live are:
I’ll try to catch at least one more of the other DC Nation/Editorial panels, but I don’t know whether I’ll try to cover them as they happen.
And there’s still the possibility that I won’t be able to get into the panel. Or I’ll get in, but the wifi (if there is any) and cell reception won’t work. We’ll see…
Those of you who visit this site on your phones will be happy to see that I’ve fixed the problem where large images were being resized horizontally to fit on the screen, but not vertically. It adjusts both the width and height together now, so large images shouldn’t look squished anymore!
Tested on the Android Browser and Opera Mini, and tested in principle on desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera, so it should work on Safari/iPhone as well. (Mobile Internet Explorer doesn’t support the feature I was using, so it shouldn’t have been affected to begin with.)
I’ve updated the Iris West Allen profile and added Flash #3 to the variant cover list. I’ll probably take another pass at Iris soon, first to give her a more current headshot, then to simplify the biography. Even after the changes I made today, it’s still very focused on her time traveling days.
Don’t like Twitter? Can’t stand Facebook? Or just want a new way to follow Speed Force updates? You’re in luck: you can now follow Speed Force on Google Buzz.
For now, I’ll be using it similar to the way I use Twitter and Facebook with the site. You’ll find:
On a related note, I’ve dropped the extra buttons for ComicsBlips and Stumbleupon for now. No one was using them as far as I can tell, and they just cluttered up the (already way too busy) page.