Linkblogging for the weekend.

Flash Links

• The webcomic Heroes! presents: Flash Facts #3
• Flash and the Doorway to the Unknown at CSBG’s Silver Age September
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #332 features a letter from a young Geoffrey Johns asking for more Professor Zoom in his Flash comics.
• Scott Beaty: Six stories that changed how I read (and write) comics at CSBG includes William Messner-Loebs’ take on Wally West’s origin, “The Unforgiving Minute.”
• Bleeding Cool’s article on DC’s extension of retailer terms adds that Eric Basalda will provide a variant cover for The Flash #4
• Noblemania has been collecting photos and interviews from the DC super-hero waterski show at Sea World from the 1970s and 1980s. Some Flash-related items include Captain Cold’s speed boat, non-regulation boots, and Flash failing to run on water
• Marketing Fail at That F’ing Monkey
• Brett Booth Redesigns Wally West For Fun (color edition)
• Flashes and Rogues, by Fred Hembeck
• Flash & Kid Flash running circles around Dr. Alchemy

The New 52

• The Continuity of the New 52 DC Comics: What Changed in Week 1 – ComicsAlliance
• Robot 6 has an interesting discussion on EW’s suggestion that DC and Marvel should adapt a TV-style season structure
• Comics Worth Reading reviews all the week two and week three launches.
• The long, long, long road to Batwoman #1 – DC Women Kicking Ass
• Is 22 Pages Our Only Option? – Levin/Albright
• How Many Justice Leagues Can Fit in the First Issue of a Justice League Comic? – Robot 6
• Superman joins Facebook at Comics Alliance. And then there’s his attempt to join Google+ at The Joy of Tech

And More!

• Keep an eye on Comics Should Be Good as they continue the Top 100 Marvel & DC Characters Countdown.
• Transformers moment: I have to admit that Chocwave cupcakes are inspired.

Some weekend linkblogging. First the Flash stuff.

• Brett Booth: A more finished Wally West/Flash 3
• Captain Boomerang at Dragon*Con (TRKA)
• That F’ing Monkey: Protection in a Flash
• The Flash meets Jerry Lewis
• The Gutters: The Wedding of Barry Allen and Iris West
• Flash #1 Release Party & Gallery Show in Toronto on Sep. 30
• The Full Run William Messner-Loebs’ Flash (Part 2) – including the writer’s own commentary! (Comics Bulletin)

Then the rest.

• Grumpy Old Fan : New 52, Prologue: This is the way the world begins (Robot 6)
• Hard To Be Friends With People Who Were Never Around (Comicbook.com)
• The Line It Is Drawn #56 – Super-Villain Team-Up! (CSBG)
• Want to help a comics fan who got ripped off by a jerk?
• Comic Book Fantasy Football: Drafting Team DC (Newsarama)
• The New 52 Art Tour
• DC Fifty-TOO! keeps going LIBERTY BELLE #2 by Joel Priddy

I missed last week’s link round-up, so this one’s going to be extra long. Fortunately, those of you in the US have an extra day to read them all!

Flash Art

• DC Flash Teaser: If you’re not moving, you’re not living.
• The Flash by Chris Samnee
• The Flash vs. Reverse Flash by Brian Hurtt
• You see, Len’s code against killing speedsters is really more like what you’d call guidelines than actual rules: “Hooray, we’re murderers!”
• Brett Booth (Teen Titans) redesigns Wally West Flash! – no, it’s not official. (via @SpeedsterSite)
• Speed Force, Impulse #1 by Tracie Mauk, for DC Fifty-Too!
• Justice Riders #1 by Dennis Culver for DC Fifty-TOO!
• La Cucaracha’s Flash Mob
• Comic Book Cover Homages in CSBG’s The Line, It Is Drawn series.
• CSBG Says goodbye to the old DCU
• Jim Lee’s design sketches for Superman, Flash and Aquaman at Wired
• Superman VS Google+ – The Joy of Tech
• Oh, Barry. Look what you did.
• Flash # 2 by Francis Manapul

More Flash

• In Which I Pestered People at DC – At Fan Expo, Lia Brown reports on her conversations with Dan Didio and Francis Manapul about the Rogues.
• Noblemania interviews Dick Ryal, Super Friends’ Captain Cold
• So You Want My Job: Comic Book Artist (The Art of Manliness interviews Francis Manapul)
• That F'ing Monkey: Flash Headphones
• Nerdage reviews the Trial of the Flash
• That F’ing Monkey’s Flash Reboot imagines a world in which, like Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, the Flash gets multiple comics.
• Comics Nexus reacts to the Barry/Iris breakup

The New 52

• John Ostrander on digital comics at Comicmix
• ComicsAlliance reviews DC’s new logos
• Origins: Only as Complicated as You Want Them To Be – Speed Force. It’s a two-year-old blog post, but it seems relevant.
• Pirates had Justice League #1 online before the official release
• Marv Wolfman on What’s Got To Die For a New DC World To Live – New York News – Runnin’ Scared. The writer talks about Crisis on Infinite Earths, continuity cleanups and character deaths.
• ICv2 – Interview with Didio and Lee – The Market Reasons, Prices, and the Relaunch
• 5 lingering questions about the new 52
• It’s all changed forever – again. Thoughts on the New 52 at Comics Worth Reading
• What makes a good first superhero issue? at Comics Worth Reading
• Collected Editions reminds us that This is not goodbye
• 25 Ways to Make a Superhero Marriage Interesting – Andy’s Sane Insanities
• EW Shelf Life compares Justice League of America #1 (1960) and Justice League #1 (2011)

Other

• 2011 Top 50 DC Characters #50-46. CSBG’s countdown begins.

Weekend linkblogging.

Flash stuff

• At Comics Bulletin, The Full Run has been working through the Wally West Flash series. Earlier this month they posted Mike Baron’s Flash. This week, they added William Messner-Loebs’s Flash (Part 1) — featuring commentary by Messner-Loebs himself!
• Last of the Famous International Fanboys has two Flash posts up: Why I think Barry Allen is Awesome and Wally West is brilliant but it’s time for Barry Allen.
• Off My Mind asks, What Happened to Wally West? at Comic Vine
• Lucas is a Geek posts his Plea for Wally & Stephanie in the DCnU.
• XKCD: Arrow. This would make perfect sense in Central City.
• It turns out there was a science fiction writer named Wallace West who wrote about time travel. Here’s one of his stories: The End of Time at Project Gutenberg.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #328 includes some background on the Flash TV series from 1990. (Also: Aunt May & Uncle Ben before Spider-Man, and the death of Grant Morrison’s DCU avatar.)
• That F’ing Monkey doesn’t like The Big Bang Theory.
• MY Times’ Arts Beat comments on Showcase Presents: The Trial of the Flash.
• Fastest Fan Alive: Sterling Silver Flash Ring
• Francis Manapul posts the cover to Flash #3.

Art

• DC Fifty-TOO! begins: independent artists create their own vision of a the New 52. A few Flash-related highlights:
  • Teen Titans #1 by Tim Seeley
  • Dex-Starr by Katie Cook (OK, nothing Flash-related here, but hey, it’s Dex-Starr.)
  • Liberty Belle #1 by Joel Priddy
• The Line It Is Drawn #53: I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now – Old Man JLA, Runababies, Teen Venom and more (Comics Should Be Good)

More Comics

• Don’t forget to vote in CSBG’s Top 100 Marvel/DC characters poll
• Dear DC: Our Unsolicited Advice for THE NEW 52 and Part 2. (Newsarama)

Flashy links

• Noblemania interviews Jack Angel, voice of the Super Friends Flash, Hawkman & Samurai.
• That F’ing Monkey: Masks
• CBR reviews DC Retroactive: The Flash – The '80s
• The Pied Piper Comes Out of the Closet – CSBG’s “Almost Hidden” series of good comics that haven’t been reprinted.
• Little known Flash fact: Jay once encountered Braniac 0.1

Other stuff:

• Comic Book Format Wars at CSBG
• Next for the DC Comics new universe? We have some ideas! Comicbook.com
• Comics You Should Own: Noble Causes (CSBG) – If you only know Jay Faerber from his, um, less-than-popular Titans run, you’re missing out on his creator-owned stuff. It’s worlds better.

Weekend linkblogging.

First, the Flash stuff:

• Ask Chris #67: The Flash of Two Eras – Op/Ed on why Barry Allen’s return diminishes both Barry and Wally (Comics Alliance)
• CSBG looks back at Buried Alien, Fastest Man Alive! from Quasar (Believe it or not, he came back later)
• Who advises Batman? Wally West, that’s who (It’s Wallie)
• Letter-writing campaign to get Sterling Gates on a Kid Flash ongoing.
• The Flash #1 page 19 by Francis Manapul
• Almost Hidden: “Nobody Dies,” Flash #54 at CSBG – one of the best Flash done-in-ones from the Wally West era (the one in which he jumps out of an airplane to save a flight attendant).
• I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Now Barry Allen’s Actions in Identity Crisis Make Sense (CSBG)
• Flash by Yildiray Cinar
• Where to start with The Flash?
• WB has a “solid script” for The Flash. [dead link]
• CBR reviews DC Retroactive: The Flash 1980s

VOTE!

• Vote for the Top 100 DC and Marvel Characters (CSBG)
• Vote For Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles (NPR)

Other Comics Stuff

• Inside Pulse aks, Who will remember the pre-Flashpoint Universe?
• Speed Force, Comic-Con: Perception vs. Reality (Part 2)
• Justice League and Justice Society Pin-up by George Perez – onceuponageek: Speed Force, Justice League and Justice Society Pin-up by George Perez
• Another Muppet Blackest Night at CSBG
• The Green Lantern Movie: How *Not* to Plot a Story – Jami Gold analyzes it from a writing standpoint.
• Friday at San Diego Comic-Con
• Rumor: of a DC Fifty-TOO!: The New DCU as imagined by 52 independent cartoonists, running August 15-31.
• The Top 100 most prolific DC writers features a number of Flash writers, with Robert Kanigher, Gardner Fox, Geoff Johns, Cary Bates and Mark Waid all in the top 20. (via The Beat
• THE REPLACEMENTS: 10 of the Best Substitute Superheroes – Newsarama
• THE LATE LIST 2: More Comics No Shows (CBR) – some of these late comics are really late!
• Photo: Looking “Up”
• Dinosaur Comics calculates the Real-Life Batman Generation Rate
• Comic Book Format Wars at CSBG