Fastest Pet On Earth

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DC is teaming up with Capstone to produce a series of children’s books, DC Super-Pets. Super-heroes have pets just like we do…but what if their pets also fought crime? (Krypto would be the classic example of this concept.)

Writers at Capstone imprint Picture Window Books will provide the stories, and Tiny Titans artist Art Baltazar will provide the art. The 24-book series launches in January 2011 and will run through 2012.

Among the first few books in the series is The Fastest Pet on Earth.

I certainly wouldn’t expect these to worry about continuity, but Bart Allen used to have a pet dog named Dox during his days as Impulse…

Minor Mobile Fix

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Those of you who visit this site on your phones will be happy to see that I’ve fixed the problem where large images were being resized horizontally to fit on the screen, but not vertically. It adjusts both the width and height together now, so large images shouldn’t look squished anymore!

Tested on the Android Browser and Opera Mini, and tested in principle on desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera, so it should work on Safari/iPhone as well. (Mobile Internet Explorer doesn’t support the feature I was using, so it shouldn’t have been affected to begin with.)

Flash Collections for Spring 2011: Rogues HC & Rebirth TPB

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The Source has posted more detail on Spring 2011 collections.

We already knew that the hardcover edition of The Flash: The Dastardly Deaths of the Rogues was coming out next February, but there’s been a slight change. Earlier reports showed it featuring The Flash #1-7 and The Flash Secret Files 2010, but now DC is saying that it collects The Flash #1-6 and The Flash Secret Files 2010. This makes more sense, because it lines up exactly with the first story arc instead of extending one issue beyond it. On the other hand…

The Flash: Rebirth paperback is scheduled for April, and someone forgot that the miniseries was six issues long and not five! I guess we shouldn’t rely too much on the numbers here.

Other books

Additionally, the Justice League International trade paperbacks start collecting Justice League Europe with volume 5. Flash Wally West was a founding member of that branch of the League, based at first in Paris and later in London. This volume features two JLI annuals and the first six issues of JLE. The next two issues are actually part of a JLA/JLE crossover, “The Teasdale Imperative,” which picks up where the previous volume left off collecting Justice League America. I’d guess that volume 6 will feature that crossover and some mix of the two series.

Justice League of America: The Rise and Fall collects the “Fall of Green Arrow” and “Rise of Arsenal” storylines spinning out of JLA: Cry for Justice. Barry Allen appears in the Green Arrow story.

There’s a new Showcase volume of Justice League of America.

I think Kid Flash Bart Allen is in Teen Titans: The Hunt for Raven.

Flash Barry Allen appears in at least the opening chapters of Brightest Day Vol.1.

Justice League of America: Dark Things covers the JLA/JSA crossover that just started, featuring Flash Jay Garrick and Jesse Quick.

Speed Reading: Two Worlds and More

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Some Monday morning linkblogging…

Flash…

Comics Should Be Good’s Year of Cool Comics spotlights “Flash of Two Worlds” — or more precisely, the Grant Morrison/Mike Parobeck retelling of the story from Secret Origins #50. The story was recently reprinted in Flash: The Human Race.

…and Beyond!

In light of Death’s upcoming appearance in Action Comics, Comics Alliance rounds up the long history of Sandman and the DC Universe.

Update: Let me add two more here: Collected Editions has worked out the Blackest Night reading order for the trades/hardcovers, and Once Upon a Geek has also taken a stab at Death in the DCU.

Gotham Central in Keystone City

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I just noticed that last month’s hardcover release of Gotham Central: On the Freak Beat includes the “Keystone Kops” storyline. When a fellow police officer is exposed to a mad scientist’s death trap and starts mutating, Gotham detectives Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen travel to Keystone City to consult the imprisoned Dr. Alchemy.

The hardcover line is following a different breakdown than the original trade paperbacks did. The story was previously collected in the paperback Gotham Central: The Quick and the Dead.