Digital Flashbacks Speeding Up: Piper Spotlight & Hawkman

For the last year or so, DC Comics had been releasing one issue of The Flash (1987-2009 series starring Wally West) from their back catalog every two weeks. Lately, they’ve sped up, adding another issue each week to ComiXology and other digital platforms.

Since the conclusion of Crossfire just a few weeks ago, they’ve added the following:

Flash #189: A bit of a breather, as everyone catches up on where they are post-Crossfire.
Flash #190: Rogue Profile spotlight on the Pied Piper.
Flash #191: Hawkman guest-stars and Brother Grimm returns.

Sunday Speedster Cinema: Quicksilver

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Two links related to that other super-speedster who recently made a live-action debut.

WIRED: Flash vs. Quicksilver. A physics professor looks at the feats we see performed in X-Men: Days of Future Past (and I’m sure we can all agree: that scene was awesome!) and the first trailer for the Flash TV show, and tries to calculate just how fast each of them is moving. In the comics, of course, the Flash is much faster, but in these particular adaptations…well, check it out.

The Quicksilver of Two Worlds: ComicsAlliance recounts the history of Pietro Maximoff and how “a D-list speedster” became the object of a Hollywood turf battle.

OK, make that three links: The webcomic Our Valued Customers on Quicksilver’s Carl’s Jr. commercial.

Speed Reading

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  • Don’t fear the silly – Robot 6 suggests that comics should embrace some of the inherent silliness. After all, without 75 years’ worth of stories to give them weight, the idea of a man who dresses up as a giant bat and calls himself “Bat Man” is pretty silly.
  • Ask Chris considers the mass media influence on comics canon. You know, elements like Harley Quinn and Rene Montoya, or the Daily Planet, or Kryptonite.
  • It’s weird how often these Peter David articles from more than a decade ago turn out to still be relevant. For example, this one about redefining comics for adults, or changes to movie/TV versions of characters.

Annotations: The Trial of The Flash, #s 337, 338 & 339 – The “Lost” Issues

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Welcome to the latest installment in our annotations of the collected edition of The Trial of the Flash!  A while back, we analyzed related stories leading up to the release of Showcase Presents: The Trial of the Flash.  In addition, we interviewed author Cary Bates about the buildup and the Trial itself, plus showed you what wasn’t included in the collection (important to this post).

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IN THESE ISSUES:  “The Monitor Doesn’t Editorialize!”

Links to original artwork, scans and research are included throughout this post.  For definitive legal analysis of the story by Bob Ingersoll, go here.  Tom vs. Flash Podcast links here, including these issues.  As always, huge thanks to the DC Indexes. See you after the jump!

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The Race to Save Jay Garrick! Review of Earth 2 #24

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earth 2 24In case you’ve been wondering what happened to Jay Garrick, look no further than EARTH 2 #24 – Jay is in the not-so-tender hands of the Beguiler!  Can his fellow Wonders find him in time?  And, just what happened in Gotham?  There’s a lot going on here, in another action-packed issue of EARTH 2!

LIGHT SPOILERS ONLY

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