Speed Reading

4 Replies

Some weekend linkblogging as we race toward Flashpoint.

Flash Art.

Flash sketch by Mike Bowden, artist of DC RetroActive: The Flash – 90s
Francis Manapul draws Kid Flash, XS and Captain Boomerang, Jr.. I agree: This needs to happen in Flashpoint!
I remember readers talking about the “Flashcredibles” a few years back. I don’t think this Incredibles Flash is what they had in mind.

Flash and Flashpoint.

That F’ing Monkey: Captain Cold, Television Star
Comics Nexus spots a stealth Flashpoint tie-in starring XS in Adventure Comics #526. They also have several pages from the FCBD Flashpoint Preview.
Speed Force contributor Devin “The Flash” Johnson has been posting his top 10 Flash collectibles at Fastest Fan Alive
USA Today: “Flashpoint”: Not the DC heroes you know
Grumpy Old Fan considers the possible long-term implications of Flashpoint, asking, Who’s got room for Professor Zoom?

Other comics stuff.

The Beat: Does anyone care if there are comics at a comic-con?
Young Justice vol.1 is available digitally through DC Comics/Comixology. (via @TheFlashReborn)

Speed Reading: Flash #11 Reviews

Two Flashes in IGN’s Top 100 Heroes

5 Replies

IGN has put together a list of their Top 100 Comic Book Heroes, and two Flashes make the cut! It’s a very well-rounded list, featuring not just the major Marvel and DC super-heroes, but non-superheroes like Dream of the Endless and Spider Jerusalem, and indie characters like Hellboy, Scott Pilgrim, and even Groo the Wanderer.

The two Flashes on the list are Barry Allen at #49 and Wally West at #8.

Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost #3 Cover

3 Replies

Timed with Newsarama’s interview with Sterling Gates, DC has released Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato’s final cover for Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost.

This one continues the falling theme, which you can see with the covers for #1 and #2. Continue reading →

Recent Acquisitions 7: Hot Pursuit? Image Intensive

11 Replies

What if instead of a motorcycle, Hot Pursuit used oh I don’t know, roller blades? Yes, Cosmic Roller Blades. That seems to be the concept behind the very, very hard to find Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Rocket Zoom Flash that I recently procured. Take a look:

Continue reading →

Sterling Gates talks Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost

5 Replies

Newsarama interviews Sterling Gates on his Flashpoint tie-in miniseries, Kid Flash Lost. As he describes it:

In Kid Flash Lost, Bart also remembers the regular universe. The only difference is that Barry is in the present day of Flashpoint, while Bart is in the future…. So he wakes up in a very, very different future from the one in which he grew up, the one he knew when he was a very small kid…. Bart realizes he needs to get back in time, or else the timestream will sort of correct itself, meaning he will pull a Marty McFly and fade out.

(Key points clipped together from several different paragraphs.)

We’re going to see a lot of things that aren’t covered in the main Flashpoint book, as Bart explores the future and finds out what happened to the Flash family.

What happened to Jay Garrick? What happened to Wally West? And where’s Max Mercury? Bart’s going to dig in and dig through some historical stuff over the course of the three issues, and we’re going to see where a lot of our speedsters are. It’s a Flash story as well as a Kid Flash story.

There’s a lot more in there about the tone, how Hot Pursuit fits in, and Bart Allen’s idea of “Kid Flash Facts.” Read the whole interview!