This Week: Flash Meets Kid Flash and Justice League Dark

Flash #21 Cover Today features the release of the following new comics featuring the Flash and/or Kid Flash:

The Flash #21
While on his path to finding the Speed Force Killer, Barry must contend with The Teen Titans! Plus, The Flash meets Kid Flash for the first time!
Written by: Francis Manapul, Brian Buccellato; Art and cover by: Francis Manapul.
A preview is available.

Justice League Dark #21
Want to know how each team member is going to die? Dr. Destiny has all the gruesome answers. Guest-starring The Flash and Swamp Thing!
Written by: Jeff Lemire, Ray Fawkes; Art by: Mikel Janin; Cover by: Mikel Janin
Note: This is the conclusion of a three-part story guest-starring the Flash and Swamp Thing.

Teen Titans #21
Something is very wrong with Red Robin…and he’s about to prove it! Can the rest of the Titans stop this tragedy? Or is it already too late?
Written by: Scott Lobdell; Art by: Eddy Barrows; Eber Ferreira; Cover by: Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira.

DC has stalled in releasing digital back issues of the flash and Impulse. It’s been a few weeks since the last update, which is unfortunate since both series left off in the middle of a story – Flash in “Chain Lightning,” and Impulse in the beginning of “Dark Tomorrow.” I think they’ve stepped up the Superman releases to tie in with “Man of Steel.”

Flash #21 Preview is Up

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DC Comics has released a preview of Flash #21 through Uproxx. Part 2 of “Reversed” features the first meeting of Flash (Barry Allen) and Kid Flash (Bart Allen) in the New 52 continuity. The Flash knows someone’s been killing people touched by the Speed Force, but doesn’t know who…so he starts with the only other speedster he knows about.

Unfortunately, the splash pages are shrunken down to a fairly narrow column, so it’s virtually impossible to read any of the narration boxes, but you can get a good sense of the art.

The Flash #21 by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato comes out next week.

Speed Force Fifth!: Year One(ish) In Collectibles!

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Hey Speed Readers,

As part of our Fifth Anniversary celebration, today we will be flashing back to 2009 to take a look at the state of the Flash action figure universe five (ish) years ago. Honestly 2008 only had one semi-decent Flash release so we will be skipping ahead slightly to a year or so before I came on board. DC Direct/DC Collectibles released five different versions (how apt) of The Flash back in 2009 beginning with Wally West from the Justice League of America series. Wally was released alongside Hal Jordan, Wonder Woman, and Geo-Force in January as part of the third series of releases and was the last original sculpt that we would see of Wally West released by DC Direct:

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Reminders: Photo Challenge & Write-In Contest

Speed Force Fifth!: The Flash, Years Five

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As Speed Force marks its fifth birthday, we decided to take a look back at where each of the Fastest Men Alive were in the fifth year of their original titles. Happy Fifth Anniversary, Speed Force!

Join us after the jump, as we journey back to 1944, 1963 and 1992 in search of Flash history, original artwork and more!

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A Future Flash Appears in Justice League 3000

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Through Comic Book Resources, DC Comics has revealed plans for Justice League 3000 by Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire. The ongoing series, launching in fall, will feature (at least) future versions of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and Green Lantern

So far, all they’ve really released is the creative team and Howard Porter’s designs, including this one for the Flash.

While the team is best known for the humorous “Bwahaha” Justice League International, they’ve written their share of serious stories as well. (You don’t get more serious than Giffen’s “Five Years Later” Legion.)

No doubt this is what’s behind both the end of the current Legion of Super-Heroes and the Justice Legion rumors: Presumably the LSH has been shifted to another timeframe, since I imagine the two concepts wouldn’t coexist very well.

Also, it’s worth noting: The Flash of JL3000 has red hair and green eyes. I’m not going to read too much into that. Other Wally West fans may be more optimistic, but I’ve been burned too many times to get my hopes up.

Updates: Giffen & DeMatteis talk to Newsarama, Giffen talks to CBR about the series.