Between Long Beach Comic Con & some home improvement projects, I didn’t have time to do the weekend linkblogging. So, here it is!

Art

• Andy Kubert’s design for the Flashpoint Pied Piper at The Source.
• Green Lando by Joe Quinones (in response to Ming Doyle’s Flashbacca)
• Halloween at Shortpacked! includes some familiar costumes.
• Comic Book Super Bands!!! – The Line It Is Drawn #63 at Comics Should Be Good!

More stuff

• Thought-provoking discussion on the impact of canceling miniseries at Comics Worth Reading.
• Future doesn’t look bright for Wally West – Robot 6. Now there’s an understatement
• Will DC’s past catch up with it? – Grumpy Old Fan
• New Explanation for my Continuity Obsession – Collected Editions
• Flash Halloween Costumes at That F’ing Monkey

The usual weekend linkblogging…

Flash Links

• The Flash Museum Online is a new blog highlighting a Flash memorabilia collection
• Noah Van Sciver recaps Flash: Rebirth #4 – I don’t think I ever saw any of these past #3 back when they were being published through Wizard. (via TRKA)
• That F’ing Monkey: Squatz
• That F’ing Monkey: The Video Game – applying the lessons of Arkham City to the Flash.
• Flashbacca by Ming Doyle & Kevin Church — wait…What?
• Max Mercury by Brett Booth
• Classic Young Justice: Impulse, Superboy & the Ray commiserate about their comics getting canceled (CSBG)
• DCNu Kid Flash sketch gallery
• Kid Flash (new) by Todd Nauck

More stuff

• How DC Should Make Webcomics (by @SpeedsterSite)
• Superman vs. Mr. Mxytzptlk at Scrabble (and other superhero/board game combos) at CSBG
• Simpsons/Comic Book mash-ups again at CSBG
• Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex: Creators Explain How Comics Can Do Better – ComicsAlliance
• Superheroes Break For Lunch
• The State of Colleen Doran’s Industry From Print to Web: “It’s working, and I didn’t need a gag strip to make it pay.” (A Distant Soil)
• Top Ten Creative Team Shake-Ups – Comics Bulletin
• Spock’s plan to stop Darkseid – Let’s Be Friends Again takes on Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes
• SEMORDNILAP ERA TIHSLLUB! Let’s Be Friends Again uncovers Zatanna’s true nemesis. (I’ve been slowly working through the archive)
• Comics Worth Reading/DVDs Worth Watching reviews Batman: Year One
• I set up a spamtrap on this site to catch spambots. One of the more persistent ones has been sending me mail with the subject “DC Fan”…but it’s the wrong DC, and the wrong kind of fan.

Linkblogging for the weekend!

First, the Flashy stuff.

• Photos from Francis Manapul’s gallery show last week
• Newsarama Best Shots calls Flash #1 the best of the New 52.
• Flash redesigned by Aaron Diaz
• Brett Booth Draws Wally West again
• Digital ComicsAlliance: 3 of The Best Comics From The New 52
• Brian Buccellato on the response to Flash #1
• Stumbled across this Let’s Be Friends Again comic strip from around the beginning of Blackest Night: Big Rock Candy Mountain of Solitude
• Flashy Riding – a more recent Let’s Be Friends Again strip featuring Flash vs. the Atom…with SCIENCE!

More art and webcomics.

• Aaron Diaz (Dresden Codak) redesigns the Justice League and DC’s villains.
• Whenever I hear someone complain about “hipsters” I think of this comic strip: Your Homework is to go Rewatch Incredibles (Manly Guys Doing Manly Things)
• Cliff Chiang redesigns Hermes
• Steve Jobs tributes by artists & designers (Comics Alliance)
• Victorian Atom & Lady Blackhawk! Cyberpunk Static! Grim and Gritty Inferior Five! and other characters moved into new genres

And more!

• Always make a good first impression: The first appearance of each lead character in the New 52 (Comics Should Be Good!)
• DCU Continuity changes from Week 4 (Comics Alliance)
• Greg reviews every single new DC comic! at Comics Should Be Good!
• Does Twitter or Facebook Drive More Traffic to Your Blog? – Juff Bullas via @grattongirl
• Preview of THE SHADE #1. (If this takes place in the “main” DC universe, then his history with Jay Garrick has probably been erased. On the other hand, it would make a lot of sense to set it on Earth-2, where Robinson’s JSA book is supposed to take place, given the Shade’s ties to the Golden Age, both directly and through the Jack Knight Starman series.)

I’m still raising funds for food allergy research and education. Thanks once again to those who have donated. If you haven’t read that post, please look through it to see why I’m walking, and consider sponsoring me in the Walk for Food Allergy. Thank you!

Flash #1 Reviews around the net.

• Comics Alliance – Flash #1 hits the ground running
• Multiversity Comics
• Inside Pulse – Dynamic Art + Likeable Character = Win
• Cosmic Treadmill
• Paste Magazine
• Complex
• Comic Book Resources
• Comic Vine
• Danger Mart
• Superhero Reviews
• Speed Force (of course!)
• Digital Spy
• IGN
• Comicbook.com
• MTV Geek
• Read/RANT
• Grumpy Old Fan/Robot 6
• IGN
• My Geeky Geeky Ways
• Comics Should Be Good reviews every single New 52 book
• Eye on Comics
• CBR New Reader Litmus Test (added)
• Mania (added)
• Newsarama Best Shots (added)

Co-writer Brian Buccellato is also asking people to leave links to their reviews on
his blog: So…what do you think?

Have you seen one I missed? Leave a comment here!

Weekend linkblogging. Actually, the “New 52 Flash Edition” is a bit of a misnomer, since I’m saving the review roundup for another post, but hey, it’s 1am and I don’t feel like coming up with a better title right now.

Flash links

• Too late, Barry, now DC’s stolen her. (TRKA)
• Shawn Levy: THE FLASH Interview – Ever wonder what happened to his Flash movie? (via @CZeke)
• Modern Myth Media Episode 29: FLASH FACT – podcast guest-starring Brian Buccellato
• Can Barry Allen make it to the comic shop in time to read Flash #1?
• Alternate Rationalizations of the Nature of the Flash’s Powers – All About the Flash
• That F’ing Monkey: Why You No Run? Good question: why do people make fun of out-of-shape guys wearing Flash shirts more than those wearing Batman shirts?
• Photos: Comic Bug signing (Buccellato, Lobdel, Rapmund)
• Brian Buccellato at The Comic Bug (my photo)
• Update: Photos: Francis Manapul Flash Release Party/Art Show at Toronto Cartoonist’s Workshop.

More comics links

• Vado Discusses SLG’s Digital Future – CBR
• The fate of the Back Issue Hunt (Westfield Comics)
• Recompressing Justice League #1 from 24 pages down to 16. (via @BleedingCool)
• CBLDF Takes Control of Comics Code Authority (Newsarama) – This is a weird turn of events.
• The Unwritten #29‘s metacommentary on the comics industry (Comics Worth Reading)
• DC Top 3 at CSBG

Still more links

• Photos: double rainbow over Los Angeles & orange clouds – I got home late on Friday after staying out to photograph the sunset views.
• Why I’m raising funds for food allergy research and education. A huge thank-you to those who have donated so far! For those who haven’t read that post, please look through it and consider sponsoring me in the Walk for Food Allergy.

Some linkblogging for the weekend….

Flash links

• Flash by William Messner-Loebs: Part 3 at The Full Run, covering roughly 1990-1992. Features commentary by the writer on Pied Piper’s coming out in Flash #53 and on the airplane story, “Nobody Dies” in Flash #54.
• Flash #1 by Adam Limbert at DC Fifty-Too! Indie comic artists continue drawing covers for their version of a DC relaunch.
• Flash #4 cover process by Francis Manapul
• Zatanna vs. the Enchantresses of Two Worlds! at Comics Should Be Good (“Flash of Two Worlds” homage)
• Noblemania tracks down the actors from the 1979 live-action “Legends of the Super-Heroes” TV specials, specifically Rob Haase (Flash), Bill Nuckols (Hawkman) and Garrett Craig (Captain Marvel). Introduction, Interview Part 1, Interview Part 2
• Rabbit Skeletons? (That F’ing Monkey)
• Captain Cold’s brilliant disguise (The Rogues Kick Ass)
• Pied Piper by Francis Manapul (The Rogues Kick Ass)
• Update: Modern Myth Media Podcast #29 interviews Brian Buccellato.
• Update: Shawn Levy on what happened to his Flash movie at Collider.

More Comics Links

• Across the digital divide – Author Seanan McGuire on how ebooks can’t reach the poor, but libraries can.
• SLG goes digital-to-trade (Comics Worth Reading). Sales of individual print issues have been dropping, and sales of digital comics, while low, have been rising.
• Comic artist Minck Oosterveer has died. To honor his memory, BOOM! Studios is making the digital versions of The Unknown free at ComiXology, Graphicly, iVerse, and mydigitalcomics. Both of the Mark Waid/Minck Oosterveer miniseries are available. If you haven’t read it already, I highly recommend taking advantage of the offer. It’s a very good supernatural mystery.
• 10 Great Things about Countdown to Final Crisis from Collected Editions. Bold statement, there!
• I was tempted to leave this funny Netflix comment up, but it was also spam. Good thing I’ve got @lol_spam for that: Netflix Drunk-Dialing
• The trouble with the new Catwoman & Starfire: ComicsAlliance on liberated sexuality vs. objectifying fantasy. Illustrated with scans from Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 and Catwoman #1, so don’t read this at work.
• Ongoings vs. miniseries: Is one better? (Robot 6)
• Marv Wolfman on the long road to Teen Titans: Games (CBR)
• Dennis O'Neil on the *original* DC reboot. ComicMix – DENNIS O’NEIL: The Original Reboot (ComicMix)
• Update: Shortpacked! on the new Starfire. Really, how did DC mess up the opportunity to target the 2,000,000 people who watched the Teen Titans cartoon in a revamp designed for bringing in new readers?