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Sterling Gates Talks Kid Flash Lost at CBR

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Just a quick note for those who haven’t seen it: CBR interviews Sterling Gates about Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost. In addition to the current book, he talks about his connection to Bart Allen, how that grew out of a connection to Wally West, and the fact that he’s pitched a Kid Flash series to DC three times since 2007.

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Some weekend linkblogging…

Flashy Links

That F’ing Monkey: Flash Glasses

DC Relaunch

The 10 biggest surprises of the Revamped DCnU (Newsarama)
Newsarama: Write or Wrong #68DCnU = DOCTOR WHO?
Inside Pulse: Top 5 Pitfalls With Flash, Green Lantern, Batman & Superman
DCnU M.I.A. – Top Heroes MissingFrom DC’s Revamp – Newsarama
Characters We Want in the New DCU – IGN
CBR Readers Rank the 52 DC Comics Relaunch Titles. Bleeding Cool has alternate interpretations of the results.
Grumpy Old Fan looks at September and the New DCU

Other Comics

Why Marvel and DC Should Be Making Superhero Webcomics – ComicsAlliance
DC Universe, Year 1000: Ulises Farinas Imagines a World of Medieval DC Superheroes – ComicsAlliance
CSBG: The Line It Is Drawn #45: Comic Book Characters/Muppet Mash-Ups!
Silver-Age Final Crisis by Kerry Callen

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And some more weekend linkblogging! The final installment of our DC Relaunch reactions will be up this afternoon.

Captain Cold Cosplay (via TRKA)
Rainbow Raider Responds by Adam Withers (TRKA)
Piper and Trickster by Dave Grote, Jr. (TRKA)
Flash Motorcycle Jacket (FFA)

Speed Reading: DC Reboot Week Two

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Some weekend linkblogging with articles on the DC Relaunch.

Bully’s DC Reboot (humor)
The Land of Canceled Heroes (Bully again)
Time and Time Again The Complete History of DC’s Retcons and Reboots
The Line It Is Drawn #44: OUR DC Number Ones! Damian as Batman! Flash as a race car driver! Goth Supergirl! Darkseid with an Afro! (CSBG)
Reboot wishlist (Comics Alliance)
The DC Relaunch Deadpool (no, not that Deadpool) at Bleeding Cool
Batgirl/Oracle
- OP/ED: Oracle Is Stronger Than Batgirl Will Ever Be (Jill Pantozzi)
- Batgirl Triumphant: The Price of Restoring DC Comics’ Disabled Heroine (Comics Alliance)
- Gail, Jill and Babs: A Conversation about Batgirl & Oracle
- Oracle Create-a-thon
- The Only Answer (The Gutters) – a surprisingly touching installment from a webcomic that usually personifies snark..
Trade-Waiting at the End of the Universe by Collected Editions
When Words Collide: The First 15 – A Look at the New DCU – Comic Book Resources
An interesting idea about Superman and Wonder Woman at Written World
Agent of S.T.Y.L.E.: The Fashion of the DCnU! Part 1
The New DC Universe: The M.I.A. List at Geekscape and Those 52 DC #1s, and who’s missing at Bleeding Cool
Comics Nexus’ picks for the new DCU
Kids These Days – Brett Booth talks about the redesigned Teen Titans costumes
DCnU or DC no? (Robot6)
New Firestorm: What do we know? at Firestorm Fan
#1 Could Be the Loneliest Number (Tilting at Windmills) – What the reboot means to retailers (via The Beat)
A Creator-Owned Call to Arms (Steve Niles) – what the DC relaunch could mean for artists and writers. (via The Beat)
Comics Worth Reading’s New DC Pull List

Speed Reading: Other Stuff

And this wraps up the weekend’s linkblogging!

Rise Of The Cons: SoCal’s Three Cons – I’m definitely heading to Long Beach this year, but I’m not sure about Wizard’s Los Angeles con or Comikaze Expo.
Grumpy Old Fan’s Alternative 30 Essential Graphic Novels at Robot 6
CSBG’s Thor test case: Converting movie super-hero viewers to comic readers.
Giant-Size Geek reviews Carmine Infantino: Penciller, Publisher, Provocateur, TwoMorrows’ massive book focusing on the classic Flash artist
Quote(s) of the day at Robot6: The audience doesn’t know what it wants. Picking up from a remark in a recent Mark Waid interview, they explore the nature of what “the audience” says it wants, and why trying to chase that isn’t always the best way to deliver a good story…or even what the audience actually wants.
The Oatmeal vs. Content Farmers
Offsite events at Comic-Con International (San Diego)
Speed Force and Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning make Comics Should Be Good’s Month of Comic Book Sites. Thanks, guys!

Speed Reading: Art Round-Up

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Almost caught up with the linkblogging! Here’s some professional and fan art featuring the Flash and related characters.

Francis Manapul’s uncolored cover for Flash #1
Impulse by Humberto Ramos (via FFA)
Flash Heroes and Flash Villains by Mbecks14 (via TRKA)
Golden Glider by Allen Belk (via TRKA)
Heat Wave by Howard Porter (TRKA)
The War of Light, Silver-Age style. Who would have thought of tying the a villain who uses an emotional spectrum, to a multi-colored lantern corps powered by…an emotional spectrum? (Remember, Geoff Johns killed off the Rainbow Raider because he couldn’t think of anything to do with him.)
Young Justice featuring Kid Flash by Andolov (FFA)
Flash Lineup at Illegal Aliens.
JLA: Knights of the Round Table by ~TheComicFan on deviantART