Speed Force has set up on Instagram as @SpeedForceOrg. We’ll be posting *ahem* Flash photography by members of the blog team, starting with Ed’s photos from HeroesCon, and very soon we’ll be running…well, that would spoil the surprise. Keep an eye out!
Here are some quick pics from the last day of HeroesCon 2013 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Not as many Flash t-shirts today, but there was a lot going on. NOTE: Whoever saw the female Jay Garrick cosplayer on Saturday…please send along a pic if you have one, as that would be a great pic to include here. I don’t have as many pics today as I did on Friday, as I went to a couple of panels today – one with Matt Fraction and the other a Bat-panel. Still, this was a fun con and a great time. btw – our Barry Allen cosplayer from Friday did see the kind remarks on the site…thanks for sending those along. Here are the pics!
I’ve been able to get to HeroesCon for Day One…and will return for Day Three on Sunday. Here are some of the Flash fans…and some bonus pics as well. There is one pic of Marcio Takara, who filled in for a couple of issue of The Flash. Later, I got him to sign a variant cover of one of his Flash issues. And yes, that is yours truly posing with the great Neal Adams!
I enjoyed taking pics not only of the cosplayers…but anyone wearing a Flash t-shirt. btw…the Barry Allen cosplayer was amazing! Here are the pics:
DC Comics will be releasing three Flash villain comics in September: Grodd, Reverse Flash, and The Rogues. Which sounds most appealing to you?
Update: The results are in!
Reverse Flash is the clear winner with 46% of the vote. The Rogues is a close second, with 42%. Grodd, however, received only four votes of the 158 votes cast! More people than that (16, at 10%) want to just skip Villains Month entirely!
How about you? Which book are you most looking forward to, and why?
The 2013 Joe Shuster Award nominations for Canadian comics creators are out, and two Flash artists are on the list!
Francis Manapul has been nominated for the Cartoonist / Auteur category, for creators who write and illustrate their own work. This is his fourth year in a row being nominated for the awards, having been nominated for Artist once and Cover Artist twice. In 2011, he won the Cover Comic Book Artist category. Moving into the author category puts him in competition against such heavy hitters as Darwyn Cooke and Jeff Lemire.
Marcus To (Flash #10, 15) has been nominated for the Artist / Dessinateur category, for creators who illustrate others’ stories. This is his first time being nominated.
Congratulations to both on their nominations!
The Flash doesn’t star in any new comics this week, but ComiXology has added two new backissues to their digital library:
Flash #148: “Chain Lightning” Part 4 – More and more future speedsters join the fight as today’s Flashes travel through the next thousand years to battle Cobalt Blue. But one Flash remains: does Wally West dare risk contacting Barry Allen?
Impulse #72: Forces unknown kidnap Carol, and Max Mercury battles an enemy from a former lifetime. Major changes are afoot in this lead-in to “Dark Tomorrow.”