Flash fan Dragonsrule123 sent me photos of 25 custom-painted LEGO figures based on the Flash, the Rogues’ Gallery, and other super-speedsters.
There’s an incredible attention to detail: The stubble on Heat Wave, the side pads on Mirror Master’s mask, etc.
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Jason AKA Papa Zero has taken the familiar Ethan Van Sciver promo piece for Flash: Rebirth, altered the colors, and produced this mirror image of the Flash vs. Professor Zoom.
A couple of fan redesigns of Bart Allen’s costumes: Kid Flash by PO! and The Flash (Bart Allen) by Ming Doyle. (I found the first through a Google alert, and the second on the DC Boards.)
Comiccon.com interviews the creators of Will Triumph Fights Alone. The power ring on the cover, with its yellow band, circular setting, and lightning insignia looks oddly familiar.
Comics Should Be Good’s Top 100 battles adds more Flash material, including Flash vs. Zoom (Blitz) (thanks, Craig MD) and #47, Flash vs. Professor Zoom (Return of Barry Allen)
Hero Complex has 10 favorite Wonder Woman battles including Wonder Woman vs. Zoom.
Update: I missed this one in my rush to post this before heading out to a family gathering that, as it turned out, was starting several hours before we expected. Newsarama has an interview with Greg LaRocque about his new project, The Dreaming. LaRocque worked on The Flash during the late 1980s and early 1990s with both William Messner-Loebs and Mark Waid.
Update 2: It’s All Just Comics has original art for one of the Superman/Flash races. Sadly, it’s a little out of my price range. OK, it’s a LOT out of my price range.
A few time-sensitive bits of news:
Comics Should Be Good will be chatting with former Flash writer Mark Waid next week, and will be asking him questions submitted by fans. Waid, currently the Editor-in-Chief of BOOM! Studios, wrote The Flash through most of the 1990s. Submit your questions by email to bcronin – at – comicbookresources – dot – com by December 9.
Voting is now open for the Flash fan art contest at Comic Bloc. The poll will be open for the next week, closing on December 9.
Finally, Crimson Lightning has launched a new poll for December: Who’s your favorite Rogue? (You can vote from any page on the blog.) He’s also posted the results from the last poll, Who’s your favorite Flash? Voting will be open throughout the month of December.
Comic Bloc is holding a Flash fan art contest.
Top Cow has a page for their upcoming Velocity series. They’ve also solicited the second issue, which has (IMHO) much better covers. More action girl, less swimsuit model.
Comics Make No Sense looks into how Quicksilver can fly.
The Comic Treadmill discusses Adventure Comics #373-375, including the first appearance of the Tornado Twins Don and Dawn Allen.
The Exponent (Purdue University’s student newspaper) contemplates that age old question, Who would win in a fight, Flash or Green Lantern?
Not directly speedster-related, but the Occasional Superheroine ponders the shift in emphasis from stories to events in comic books since the early 1980s.