Uproxx has a preview of Reverse-Flash #1 (a.k.a. The Flash #23.2, arriving in stores next week. The book by Francis Manapul, Brian Buccellato, and guest artist Scott Hepburn delves into the origin of the new Reverse Flash, whose identity was revealed in the pages of The Flash #23 last month.
Hey Speed Readers,
Yesterday DC Collectibles gave us a “top secret” look at the main villains in their Forever Evil crossover coming up; The New 52 versions of the Crime Syndicate of America of Earth 3. More notably, Johnny Quick:
Some recent Flash-related articles…
Brian Buccellato talks about Villains Month, Rogues Rebellion, Forever Evil, Zero Year, and more at CBR. In addition to co-writing the main Flash series, he’s solo writing the Grodd and Rogues one-shots and the Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion miniseries.
EW reports that Arrow is casting Barry Allen and will begin shooting the Flash’s first episode on September 30.
Scott Lobdell talks about Kid Flash’s origin at Newsarama.
Mark Waid, who has been accused by some comics retailers of trying to put them out of business with his digital comics efforts (particularly Thrillbent), has bought a comic store to prove that he’s not anti-print.
Ron Marz talks about hanging onto ideas for the right time, describing how a concept for an unused Hourman revamp in the early 1990s eventually inspired the story structure of the Velocity miniseries.
Plus a few links from early August that made it to Twitter and Facebook but somehow never made it onto the blog:
In a reprint column, Peter David rounds up a discussion on comic book villainy.
Lots of people talk to Newsarama about the Flash’s lasting appeal (including me!)
Brian Buccellato’s Top 8 Flash Rogues.
Kid Flash appears in the twelfth Who’s Who Podcast episode.
As Villains Month begins, we see a newly returned Gorilla Grodd…and he is not only out of the Speed Force, but he’s learned a thing or two during his stay. Grodd is more dangerous than ever – and with no Flash to stop him what is he capable of doing? Central City is about to find out in The Flash #23.1 (aka Grodd #1).
LIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD
Speed Force held a contest to celebrate our fifth anniversary in June, and though it took a while to finish (sorry about that), things are finally back on track. We are pleased to announce the winners, and to share everyone’s stories!
The question posed to readers was simply why do you like the Flash?, and thirteen people responded with some wonderful entries. There were beautiful stories, photographs, and fan art which were a delight to see. We will reprint them all here for everyone to enjoy, broken up into several posts for ease of reading.
It’s villains month at DC Comics, and the first of three Flash villain one-shots arrives this week.
Also, Forever Evil #1 won’t have the Flash in it, but it will have the Earth-3 speedster Johnny Quick.
Flash #23.1: Grodd #1. Grodd returns in the Flash’s absence, changed by his time in the speed force. Nerdist has a preview of the issue by Brian Buccellato and Chris Batista.
In digital back-issues:
Impulse #77: An “Our Worlds at War” tie-in. Impulse and Young Justice take the war to Apokalips, but when one of Bart’s “speed duplicates” is killed, the psychic feedback takes him out of commission.
(Note that Bart only gained this power a few issues earlier. I seem to recall reading an interview with Todd Dezago saying that the new power was editorially mandated, and he and the artists didn’t want to clutter up the concept, so they gave Bart a reason to stop using it as soon as they could.)