Some linkblogging for the weekend.

Art

• The Line It Is Drawn #50 – Super Team Extravaganza! (CSBG)
• The true story of the tortoise and the hare by DeeYouGee from Worth1000’s Critter Superheroes 2 (Fastest Fan Alive)

Flash

• Drawing Crazy Patterns: Flash Stories Ending With Iris West Complaining About Barry Allen (CSBG). No wonder Barry and Iris split up in the New 52.
• The Deadbeats (That F’ing Monkey)

Other Comics Links

• An Interview with the Batgirl of the SDCC panels (DC Women Kicking Ass)

The weekly linkblogging round-up.

Fan Art

• Barry Allen/Flash by Casey Jennings (via Hurricaine on Tumblr)
• Bad Laundry Day by Goran Patlejch
• Flashpoint Wally & Piper and Wally’s car (TRKA)
• The Line It Is Drawn #50 – Super-Team Extravaganza at CSBG

Flash

• Sequential Awesome pens An Open Letter To DC Creative, RE: Wally West
• That F’ing Monkey: Professor Zoom
• TheFlashReborn spots a moving company called Flash
• Inside Pulse reviews the art of Flash vol.3

Flashpoint

• Inside Pulse: Figuring Out The Flashpoint
• Collected Editions tracks down the release dates and titles of the Flashpoint tie-in collections.

Some weekend linkblogging…

Flashy Links

• Viva the JSA by Thomas Perkins (via FFA).
• Custom Mighty Muggs Trickster by Muggshots (FFA)
• Victorian Flash & Rogues by Damn It Feels Good to Be a Fangirl: Mirror Master, Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, Golden Glider, Flash & Kid Flash. Also Rogues My Little Ponies (via TRKA)
• That F’ing Monkey looks back at the first appearance of Kid Flash in animation: the 1967 Filmation Flash cartoons.
• Update: Insude Pulse reviews the art of Flash vol.3

Other stuff

• What to do with your old comics at ComicsAlliance
• SDCCblog has compiled a long list of offsite events during Comic-Con
• The Line It Is Drawn #49: What If… Tony Stark never had any money? Or Jack Kirby created The Bat-Man? Or… (Comics Should Be Good)
• Economics, Comixology, and the New 52 at Websnark.

Weekend linkblogging.

Flash-related links:

• Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe: The Flash at Tor
• Our Valued Customers: I bet I could beat the Flash if…
• Flash Xing (FFA)
• Viva the JSA by Thomas Perkins
• Zoom commission by Ethan Van Sciver (TRKA)
• That F’ing Monkey: Flash Friday: Grodd

Other stuff

• Muppet Lantern Corps by mimi-na
• Robot 6 invited me to join them for their latest What Are You Reading? round table.
• Pearls Before Swine on the effectiveness of 😉
• Catch Liberty Belle in Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): Fourth of July Edition
• Flashpoint #4 Variant Cover featuring S!H!A!Z!A!M!
• Open Letter to DC Comics, Part 3: Marketing Fail, Or Why Not Go After Truly New Readers? – GeekDad at Wired
• Mindless Ones: Grant Morrison Supergods interview transcript
• Countdown to Comic-Con – I just hope there aren’t too many continuity glitches between this and the actual Comic-Con.
• Big Bang Comics coming back from Pulp 2.0 Press (The Beat)
• Lobdell Gets Angsty with “Teen Titans” – Comic Book Resources
• If I Had to Reboot the DC Universe – Blog@Newsarama
• What are the great unresolved plot threads? (CSBG)
• Flashpoint: Abin Sur, Emperor Aquaman, Reverse Flash sell out

Some weekend linkblogging…

Flash and Flashpoint

• Oliver Queen, armed by the Rogues at The Rogues Kick Ass
• That F’ing Monkey: Warner Brothers Stores
• Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe: The Flash (Tor.com)

Digital comics and the DC Relaunch

• Changing the Paradigm: Why Digital Comics Need to Move Beyond the Single Issue (ComicsAlliance) – I definitely agree that complete stories are the way to go with the back catalog. As far as new material goes, the idea of digital installments and print collections has a strong appeal.
• Warren Ellis » DC And Digital Comics Strategies
• The Weekly Crisis: Retailing With Ron – The DC Relaunch
• BUSTED! Fact-checking Ten MYTHS About the DCnU (Newsarama)
• DC Releases Some New “The New 52” Info & Answers to Retailers (Newsarama)
• 10 Long-Running Comics That Have Never Been Renumbered

Other Stuff

• 5 Comic Superheroes Who Made A Real-World Difference
• 10 Comic Book DEATHS That (Mostly) Still Matter (Newsarama)
• Gail Simone explains what would happen “If you took every comic book fan and laid them end to end around the equator…”
• The Flash kicks off this list of Comic Book Projects That Could Be Better Today (Comicbook.com)
• Batman vs Sherlock Holmes by ~outlawink
• Cover Mashups profiled in CSBG’s Month of Comic Book Sites