Flash March Madness – Sweet Sixteen Enters Day 2!

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As Flash March Madness hits the Sweet Sixteen Round, we have some surprising results, both in margin of victory and in the Rogues who won!  Here are the results from Monday’s voting:

Captain Cold d. Trickster (Axel Walker)
Golden Glider d. Zoom (Hunter Zolomon) in a close surprise win
Reverse Flash (Eobard Thawne) d. Weather Wizard in another close race
Mirror Master (Evan McCulloch) d. Capt. Boomerang (Owen Mercer) in yet another close vote

Today’s votes will complete the Sweet Sixteen round:

Pied Piper v. The Top
Gorilla Grodd v. Mirror Master (Sam Scudder)
Inertia v. The Thorn
Dr. Alchemy v. Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness)

Tomorrow starts the Elite Eight Round – watch for it!

As always, membership at The Fastest Forum Alive is free – but you can also vote by logging in with your Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and Windows Live account.  The votes are becoming closer by the day, and YOUR votes determine Rogue supremacy!  Be sure to vote today in Flash March Madness!

 

Barry Sounds A Little Like…Someone Else (Review of Justice League #18)

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justice league 18Justice League #18 begins a story arc centering on Cyborg, with interesting parallels to some pre-Flashpoint tales.  But, rather than Batman having files on all the heroes in the DCU, it is now Cyborg who has been tracking and filing info on every hero operating in the New52.  While this is most useful in sending invitations to potential League members, there is always some danger in keeping those kinds of files…and that obviously will lead us into the next few issues of JL.  The moments of most interest to Flash fans, however, concern Wal…I mean Barry’s interactions with the other League members and with the potential members invited to the Watchtower.

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Flash #19 Fold-Out Cover Revealed

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Flash #19 Fold-Out Cover by Francis Manapul

DC Comics has unveiled the Flash #19 fold-out cover at Newsarama. To no great surprise, it turns out to feature the new Reverse-Flash, who recently debuted in Flash #17.

Actually, I do find it a bit odd that the Reverse-Flash is holding a bloody bicycle helmet.

DC’s April covers all feature a fold-out with a surprise twist on the right side of the image (at one point they were referred to as “WTF Certified,” but that terminology has been dropped), though how many are really surprises is hard to say. The Flash is featured on the “surprise” side of Dial H #11 cover, and Kid Flash on the Vibe #3 cover. The Flash also appears on the teaser sides of Justice League Dark #19 & DC Universe Presents #19, though the full covers to those comics haven’t been released yet.

Flash #19 also has a MAD-themed variant cover.

THE FLASH #19
Written by BRIAN BUCCELLATO
Art by MARCIO TAKARA
Fold-out cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL
1:25 MAD Variant cover by The Usual Gang of Idiots
On sale APRIL 24 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

What is the latest and greatest threat to The Flash and all those closest to him?

Flash #18 Preview is Out

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Flash #18 CoverMTV Geek has a preview of Flash #18.

  • The Trickster is accused of murder! Can The Flash help solve his case?
  • Plus, a surprising twist ending that will rock the world of…DIAL H?

Written by: Brian Buccellato
Art by: Marcio Takara
Cover by: Francis Manapul
Variant Cover by: Francis Manapul

This is the first of two issues on which Francis Manapul is taking a break from everything except the covers. He’ll be back as co-writer and artist for Flash #20, when they pick up the Reverse-Flash story.

MTV Geek lists it as a $3.99 book, but the cover clearly states $2.99, and we know the Flash isn’t adding pages. I call typo at MTV.

I think we have a good idea what the Dial H connection is now.

Using ComiXology’s web-based viewer on my desktop for the first time in quite a while (I use my Nexus 7 usually when reading digital comics) really brings home the importance of pixel density. The *size* of the page is great on my monitor. It ends up being about the same size as a print issue, actually. But it’s harder to read because the text is so pixelated. Sadly, there are a lot of other things I need to pay for before I can justify buying a retina display.

The Flash #18 arrives in stores next Wednesday, March 27.

This Week: Digital Smallville & Flash of Two Cities

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The next digital chapter of Smallville Season 11: “Haunted” guest-starring Impulse arrives on ComiXology on Friday.

Today, two more issues of the 1987-2009 Flash series starring Wally West are available digitally.

Flash #122-123: Keystone City decides that it can no longer handle the cost of property damage from the Flash’s battles, and want him to leave town. The seaside town of Santa Marta, California, however, would love to have their own super-hero. And who better than the Flash to be a super-commuter?

Flash #123: Flash of Two Cities

The cover and title are, of course, an homage to the classic “Flash of Two Worlds” in the first Flash #123.

One thing that surprised me here is that, up until now, DC and ComiXology have been re-releasing the series in sequence. After an initial release of a dozen or two issues by theme, they started with #1 and have been working their way forward, filling in and around those issues that have already been released. Last time, they jumped straight from #115 to #120, skipping the last three issues of “Race Against Time” and the “Final Night” tie-in issue. I wondered if they might be jumping back to fill in the gap this week, but that isn’t the case, at least not yet.

I asked ComiXology about it, and they said that DC simply hadn’t sent them those issues yet. I haven’t heard back from DC.

Vibe vs. Kid Flash for April WT(K)F

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Vibe #3

CBR has revealed the Vibe #3 fold-out cover…and it features Vibe vs. Kid Flash!

“What is the one super power that is more than a match for Vibe and how can it tear the universe apart?” Now we know…though considering that Vibe was apparently picked for the JLA to counterbalance the Flash’s powers, it should have been clear already.

Vibe #3 is written by Sterling Gates (Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost) with a cover by Brett Booth.