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!

TV Bits And Links

tumblr_nuiti7odg81uv4crqo1_1280 The season premiere is less than a month away, and details about the upcoming season of The Flash are now trickling out regularly. Here are some links with recent news about the show and its characters, and you can also see our first look at the costumes for Hawkgirl and Hawkman. She’ll be a regular character in the upcoming series Legends of Tomorrow (which began filming this week, with Captain Cold and Heat Wave), and both will appear first in The Flash. See more behind the jump, including potential spoilers.

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Oh, Barry. Look what you did. (This week’s Flashbacks)

Flash #201

Two more Flash issues from the 1970s are available digitally this week.

Flash #200: “A foreign spy named Dr. Lu brainwashes Flash into believing hes taking hairspray to his wife when what hes really doing is attempting to assassinate the president.”

Flash #201: “The Flash feels guilty when he believes he’s responsible for paralyzing a young basketball star’s legs.” Also a Jay Garrick story, “Finale for a Fiddler!”

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Extended Flash Trailer

The CW has just released an extended version of the teaser we saw a few days ago; this one’s about a minute and a half long and has footage not shown in the previous trailer. It gives us an introduction to Patty Spivot, and has more about a few villains we’ll be seeing in second season. It’s possibly spoilery, however, so be warned.

https://youtu.be/uVOR9D8FRbQ

What do you think? Are you looking forward to the villains and the October 6th premiere? That’s not so far away!

Barry’s Choice: Ethics of Time Travel in the Flash Season Finale

When I first watched “Fast Enough,” the Flash Season One finale, I was relieved that they weren’t jumping into Flashpoint, and that they weren’t wiping out an entire season’s worth of stories (not to mention elements of Arrow). There’s only so far you can take a reset button without removing tension or basically creating a new show.

But as the summer has gone on, the storytelling logic feels less important, and I’ve looked at the characters’ actions from an in-universe perspective (spoilers ahead):

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