Flash Becomes the Black Racer in Justice League: Darkseid War

Newsarama has the scoop: the six Darkseid War tie-ins originally titled Justice League: Gods and Men are being renamed as Justice League: Darkseid War, which not only makes more sense, but is harder to confuse with Justice League: Gods and Monsters.

They also posted this piece by Jason Fabok from the upcoming Justice League #44, revealing just what the Flash will look like when he becomes a New God – specifically the Black Racer, avatar of death.

Justice League 44: Flash as the Black Racer

Justice League: Darkseid War – The Flash ships in October, written by Rob Williams with art by Jesus Merino and a cover by Francis Manapul.

Update: The book is now scheduled for November 5.

Flash Season Zero TP & Iris Flashbacks

The softcover edition of The Flash: Season Zero is out this week. It collects the complete series, originally released in 24 digital chapters and then in 12 print issues. Actually set during season one, it covers two long stories:

Flash vs. a metahuman circus
King Shark vs. the Suicide Squad

…and several shorter stories, including a look back at how Captain Cold and Heat Wave first met, a nightmare out of Caitlin Snow’s past, a guest spot by Felicity Smoak, and a story in which Caitlin and Cisco deal with fallout from one of her old mentors.

This week’s digital flashbacks from the early 1970s include:

Flash #202 – Iris’ reporting gets her into trouble with a cult.

Flash #203 – Iris returns to her home era in the distant future. Wait, you didn’t think she was from the present, did you?

Flash #203

Official Stills And A New Teaser Video

It’s exactly three weeks until the October 6th season premiere of The Flash, and new details and promos are coming almost every day.

Flashfans.org has a gallery of official still images from the premiere episode. It gives us a somewhat spoilery look at what we’ll see and the characters we will be seeing…including a familiar face.

And the CW has released a behind-the-scenes promo clip, which also has some spoilers and shows how a few special effects are done.

https://youtu.be/b3u1CRK-q24

What are you most looking forward to this season? Let us know in the comments!

Running Through Long Beach Comic Con 2015

Running with the Flashes

I ran out to Long Beach Comic Con over the weekend. It’s really grown. The floor was twice as big as last year, I could swear they doubled the tracks of programming, and there was a great crowd even on Sunday. It’s a great con for comics and art especially — this is the one I’ve mentioned where Artist’s Alley isn’t just off in a corner somewhere, it’s the centerpiece of the main floor.

Norm Rapmund was there, selling a new print from the current Flash art team featuring all the New 52 Flashes, including one I don’t think we’ve seen yet. I don’t know where I’m going to put it, but I couldn’t pass it up. (Though I did pass up the metallic edition. It was very shiny, both literally and in the Firefly sense, but it was also 3x the price.)

Update: It turns out the day I didn’t go, there was a Rogues cosplay meetup!

Full photo album on Flickr, featuring meteorites, Deadpool doing some light reading, Spider-Everyone, a tricked-out Star Wars car, Harley in Wonderland, and some Pizzazz. Update: Full write-up over at K2R.

Norm Rapmund

Flash #47: Prof. Zoom’s Endgame in December

Flash #47

DC Comics’ December 2015 solicitations are rolling out, including…

THE FLASH #47
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI and VAN JENSEN
Art and cover by BRETT BOOTH and NORM RAPMUND
Variant covers by TERRY DODSON
On sale DECEMBER 30 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

Professor Zoom’s endgame goes into effect as we learn the dark truth behind Nora Allen’s murder!