San Diego Comic Con is in full swing, and Friday featured a DC television panel which confirmed that a major comics character will be appearing in season two of The Flash. Spoilers behind the jump.
In the middle of SDCC, DC has announced their October variant cover theme. Once again, to coincide with Halloween it’s a monster theme. As usual, the covers are spread around several news sites including ComicVine, which has The Flash #45 by Gustavo Duarte.
Trick or treat?
Newsarama has collected a full gallery of all 25 covers. These things never seem to stay exclusive for long.
I like the “It Came From Krypton!” 50s-style B-movie poster for Action Comics. How about you? Which ones are your favorites?
DC seems to be saving their comic book Flash news for Friday’s “New DC Universe – Justice For all” panel, and their TV news after Saturday night’s giant WB TV block featuring Arrow, Flash, Gotham, Legends of Tomorrow and Vixen.
But an exhibit on the convention floor has generated a lot of online discussion. Check out this tweet by @FlashTVNews:
White Emblem #TheFlash #WBSDCC Am I going to need a new T-shirt? pic.twitter.com/f8TXbs7Btt
— Flash TV News ⚡ (@FlashTVNews) July 9, 2015
It’s part of a display featuring costumes from Arrow and The Flash, including the Reverse-Flash Costume, Captain Cold’s jacket, Jay Garrick’s helmet and more.
The fact that the circle around the Flash emblem is white, rather than red, has a lot of people speculating that the costume is getting a redesign in Season Two. That’s certainly possible…but it’s also possible that they just put up the version of the Future Flash costume that we saw in the time travel section of the Season One finale.
remember Barry wore the white logo in season 1. never assume a thing, especially not with these EP's 😉 pic.twitter.com/fejswEwGhr
— Flash Fans Dot Org (@FlashCWFans) July 9, 2015
For what it’s worth, the merchandise and promotional material — including Legends of Tomorrow posters, and a booth wall featuring leads from Arrow, Flash, iZombie, Gotham, Supergirl, Lucifer and Legends of Tomorrow — all feature the red circle we saw throughout Season One.
https://twitter.com/seriescoops/status/619087421972594688/photo/1
What do you think? Would you like to see the TV show switch to a white symbol for season two, or do you like the distinct look for the character?
Update: At Saturday’s press conference Grant Gustin confirmed that the costume is changing: “That’s a thing, yeah, I shot in the suit on my first or second day of filming in the red emblem. But, yeah, I will be in that suit pretty soon.”
Hey Speed Readers,
As anyone reading this page should know, SDCC 2015 kicks off today, July 9, 2015 with Preview Night. Anyone who has ordered a 4-day pass plus preview and comic book professionals and reporters are allowed a sneak peak at everything a day ahead of the general public. Credit Toynewsi.com for the pics
Hey Speed Readers,
With San Diego Comic-Con finally upon us, we at Speed Force figured it would be a good idea to give you all a quick heads up about what to expect and to look for if you are fortunate enough to be heading to San Diego this weekend.
First off I have to say that it looks like Funko is definitely vying for the title of most convention exclusives ever! From a list of at least 50 Funko products available this year, we are coming away with 2 Flash-related exclusives.
Two more Silver-Age issues added to the digital backlist this week:
Flash #182 – Abra Kadabra makes the Flash afraid to use his super-speed.
Flash #183: “Flash learns about an assassination attempt prior to a scheduled speaking engagement at a police symposium in Central City; crooks capture Flash in ice.”