Tag Archives: CSBG Cool Comics

Speed Reading

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Interesting links found over the past week or so…

First, the Flashy stuff:

Flash #73, “The Perfect Gift,” is day 351 in CSBG’s Year of Cool Comics.
Flashpoint speculation at Bleeding Cool.
Chain Lightning in 30 Seconds
Santa Flash of the JLU c/o That F’ing Monkey.
Multiversity Comics reviews The Flash #8
Added: CBR reviews The Flash #8
Added: MTV Geek reviews The Flash #8

And the not-so-Flashy:

Great Holiday comics that never happened at ComicsAlliance
Newsarama’s Best of Best Shots 2010 (And What to Watch in 2011)
Street of the Green Lantern has been StumbledUpon.
“Let her go, Man-Jaw, or I’ll be forced to kick myself in the head!”
Newsarama’s 11 for ’11: Things to Watch in the New Year – SERIES/GNs
Trade Perspectives: The Invisible But Flexible Zenith of Collecting at Collected Editions
The Muslim Batman of France is analysed in this Shortpacked! guest strip by Randy Milholland (of Something Positive)
The ship in Sky Pirates of Valendor is called the “Rogue’s Revenge.”
Dan Didio and Jim Lee Look Ahead to 2011 at Newsarama.

Speed Reading: Boomerang, Barry & Iris, Bart, Sonic & More

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Some linkblogging for the weekend.

Flash

Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep talks about how he’d write The Flash. Three words: Barry and Iris. (via Michael Kaiser)
Quick Time contemplates the Boomerangs: What went wrong with Captain Boomerang, Jr.? And just what is White Lantern Captain Boomerang’s mission?
That F’ing Monkey explains: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flash.
Firestorm Fan digs out an old Super-Powers adventure: Darkseid… of the Moon

Other speedsters

Impulse Flashback: Bart Allen’s first day of school at Comics Should Be Good’s Year of Cool Comics
First Comics News’ Sonic The Hedgehog Month is almost over
Top Cow will be selling the SDCC and Supercon Velocity #1 variants through retail in November

Other comics

Young Justice cartoon: Comic Book Movie interviews producers Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti.
Comics Alliance analyzes the Brightest Day/White Lantern Teaser. Also worth a look: The most divisive character types in comics.
Grumpy Old Fan looks at the real history of the DC Universe: its characters.
Girls Gone Geek (G3) considers DC’s Legacy of Legacies (via @FlashJohnson)
Girls Read Comics Too tackles the question of DC vs. Marvel, asking: Why is it even a debate?(via @SpeedsterSite)
Chewie and Han T-shirt (in the style of Calvin and Hobbes)
Geekscape asks: have we had our fill of super-heroes?

Speed Reading: Art, Quick Time, DCUO, Fast Mail and More

Art

I finally placed what that Funko Flash plush toy reminds me of: paintings by Degrazia.

Michael Cho is bringing some great paintings of the Flash and Mister Miracle to Fan Expo. (via @FrancisManapul)

In Brightest Day, In Blackest…Coffee? The Nerdy Bird has found an awesome T-shirt on Etsy.

Giant Size Geek (formerly Photon Torpedoes) found a “trippy” Martin Ansin painting of the Flash. Actually, there’s another Giant Size Geek find that’s going to get its own post…

Commentary and News

Quick Time is a new blog focusing on Jesse Quick and Hourman. Recent posts include costumes, low points (Jesse in Titans, anyone?), and thoughts on the Justice Society roster.

That F’ing Monkey looks at Flash postage stamps in the Fastest Mail Alive.

The Source has a new video ad for DC Universe Online, “I am the Next Legend.”

The Flash makes IGN’s top DC series list at #8.

CSBG has completed their series on the Top 75 Most Memorable Moments in DC Comics History.

Speed Reading: Merit Badges, Plush Flash, Sonic Month and More

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Some Flashy linkblogging for the weekend…

Fanboy Scouts has launched a series of Merit Badges for Geeks including a Speedster badge, awarded for “the display of any of the following speed-related attributes: Super Speed, Speed Control, Kinetic Energy Manipulation, Infinite Mass Punch, Time Travel or Hyper-Vibration.”

Check out Mark Grambau’s super-hero/super-villain posters.

The Hooded Utilitarian continues reading the Silver Age Flash, this time moving on to the few solo issues.

Sideshow Collectibles has the Flash “As you’ve never seen him before” — as a plush toy! (OK, I have seen Flash plush toys before, but not quite like this one.)

The 1992 Elongated Man miniseries makes CSBG’s Year of Cool Comics.

In other speedster news, First Comics News is making August Sonic the Hedgehog Month.

Speed Reading: Flash History – Blitz, Showcase, Hell to Pay and JLApe

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Some recent sightings of Flash history around the web.

4thletter!’s 4×4 Elements series looks at what made “Blitz” work.

Two more Flash moments appear in Comics Should Be Good’s list of 75 Memorable Moments in DC History: Barry Allen’s sacrifice in Crisis on Infinite Earths and the first Superman/Flash race.

Bleeding Cool noticed a similarity between the universe-changing conclusion of Spider-Man’s “One More Day” and a story point in Flash’s “Hell to Pay,” and asked, “Where was the outrage when Wally West did the same thing?” Hmm, on one hand you have someone who makes a deal with the devil to retcon away 15 20 years of stories and create a new status quo that has lasted three years so far. On the other hand, you have someone who makes a deal with the devil for the sake of a story, and he finds a way to beat the Devil at his own game the next issue. Yeah, they’re totally the same.

Random Happenstance’s series on 1999’s JLApe event continues with a summary of the Flash installment, featuring Max Monkey and Chimpulse.

The Hooded Utilitarian, after reading Flash: Rebirth, decides to go back and read some Silver-Age Flash starting with Showcase #4.

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.

Speed Force

Tracking the Flash – the Fastest Man Alive