• Rumor: Flash pilot screening at Comic-Con International. If it happens, and it’s on one of the days I’m there, I’ll at least try to see it and report back. Also, Geoff Johns hints at a possible Captain Cold appearance.
• Modern Mythologies: Obsession and the Zoom Lineage – A great analysis of Eobard Thawne and Hunter Zolomon.
• The Flash Podcast 023 – DC Cinematic Universe (Part III)
• Back in a Flash Episode 4: Interview with Brett Booth
• Flash-Back Podcast discusses Flash #31

A few quick Flash and other-speedster links from this week.

• Flash for the Uninitiated – great article by Benito Cereno (Tales from the Bully Pulpit) for anyone new to the Flash who wants to get started.
• Flash #31 at Comic Book and Movie Reviews
• “Central City” is a new song from Mike Schmidt’s Flash rock opera
• The Flash Podcast Episode 22: Wally West Pt. 2
• Sons of the Devil (Brian Buccellato) preview at Comic Vine. The Kickstarter closes on Wednesday
• MPH #2 preview at CBR

The Flash

• Jose Luis Molestina picks up Wally West’s final adventure in the pre-Flashpoint reality with a fan comic.
• In Defense Of DC Comics New 52′s Wally West – Inside Pulse
• Changes to Our Heroes: The Wally West Effect – Atomic Geekdom
• “Slow Burn/Please Don’t Die” song by Mike Schmidt.
• Super-hero Weaknesses – That time someone asked me what the Flash’s “weakness” was.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed tackles the question of what would have happened to Barry Allen if he hadn’t died in Crisis on Infinite Earths — and refers back to an interview with Cary Bates here at Speed Force!
• CBR: 5 Rogues we want on the Flash TV Show
• 15 Things to Note in the First Trailer for The Flash TV Series
• 6 Great Things About THE FLASH Trailer – The Flash TV

Flash Podcasts

• Back In A Flash episode 3 focuses on the Rogues.
• The Flash Podcast Episode 21: Gorilla Grodd
• Flash TV Talk continues its Young Justice retrospective and discusses current TV rumors.

Flash reviews

• The Flash #31 Review – IGN
• Review of The Flash #31 | Nothing But Comics!
• Speed Reading! – The Flash #31 | The Culture Cast with Zack and Nick
• Weird Science: The Flash #31 Review

More Comics

• Don’t fear the silly – Robot 6 suggests that comics should embrace some of the inherent silliness. After all, without 75 years’ worth of stories to give them weight, the idea of a man who dresses up as a giant bat and calls himself “Bat Man” is pretty silly.
• Ask Chris considers the mass media influence on comics canon. You know, elements like Harley Quinn and Rene Montoya, or the Daily Planet, or Kryptonite.
• It’s weird how often these Peter David articles from more than a decade ago turn out to still be relevant. For example, this one about redefining comics for adults, or changes to movie/TV versions of characters.

The plugin I’ve been using to track links during the week for link round-ups has stopped working again. So here’s a manual catch-up on some Flash-themed podcasts over the last few weeks:

The Flash Podcast

Wally West
DC Cinematic Universe Part 2
CW Picks Up the Flash
Captain Boomerang

Flash TV Talk

Young Justice Retrospective Part 5
Interview with Chad Rook

Flashback Podcast

The Flash #29
Rogues Rebellion #6

The Flash Podcast has had several episodes since our last link round-up:

• Episode 10 – The Trickster
• Episode 11 – Cisco Ramon – New episode of @TheFlashPodcast spotlights Cisco Ramon aka Vibe
• Episode 12 – Flash/Quiver Podcast Crossover
• Episode 13 – Interview with Greg Weisman (Young Justice co-creator)

Flash TV Talk has been doing a four-part Wally West/Young Justice retrospective.

WHO’S WHO: The Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe is up to Volume XIX, featuring Reverse Flash and Quicksilver (no, not that one!) – Firestorm Fan/Aquaman Shrine

Flash/Speedster Links

• Flashfans.org interviews Brett Booth
• Eric Canete “MPH” Variant Cover
• That F’ing Monkey: Flash Friday: Sticker Scandal – That F’ing Monkey: Flash Friday Sticker Scandal
• Review of The Flash #29 – The Culture Cast with Zack and Nick

More Comics Links

• Buccellato and Tuazon’s “FOSTER” is being collected – In its original run, only 5 of the 6 issues made it to print, though the last issue was published digitally. Now the whole story is being collected in a paperback.
• Green Lantern: TAS, Bruce Timm, and focus groups – Giancarlo Volpe
• A Cast Photo From The Justice League Movie That Never Was – ComicsAlliance
• Tips for Surviving C2E2 – The Culture Cast with Zack and Nick
• Thrillbent announces subscriptions, new comics, including the return of Mark Waid & Barry Kitson’s Empire
• 10 Things We still miss about the old DC Universe – Newsarama
• Fake Geek Guys: A Message to Men About Sexual Harassment
• Greg Rucka on geek culture, women, and gatekeeping