Linkblogging for the weekend.

First, the Flashy links

• That F’ing Monkey: Kid Flash Changes
• Francis Manapul posts the Kid Flash #2 cover process.
• Captain Cold by Peter V. Nguyen (via The Fastest Fan Alive)
• Last week’s article on the bronze-age predecessor to Cobalt Blue made DC Comics’ news feed and the Flash’s Facebook page! Thanks!

Next up: Flashpoint.

• Inside Pulse | Geoff Johns: Flashpoint Tie-Ins Fun, But Not Key / Dan Didio: DC Titles Cancelled For Tie-Ins
• Bleeding Cool updated their “Flashpoint will retitle and renumber everything!” rumor from a few months back. This time, instead of renumbering everything during the event as tehy originally claimed, everything’s being renumbered after the event (Personally, I suspect that there will be a bunch of new #1 issues…for things like Batwoman, Static, other new series that have been announced, and several series launching out of Flashpoint.)

And finally, general comics stuff.

• When Words Collide: Millennium and Invasion!
• Collected Editions has spotted signs of a Chase collection. This was an amazing short-lived series from the late 1990s about Cameron Chase, agent of the Department of Extranormal Operations, as she went on missions to keep tabs on super-heroes and super-villains. It was written by D. Curtis Johnson and drawn by J.H. Williams III and Mick Gray.
• The Lessons of DC Universe: Legacies – Grumpy Old Fan
• WonderCon panel report: Life After the Comics Code.
• The Line It Is Drawn #35: Comic Book Spokesmodels
• The Fifth Color: comics aren’t for everyone, but everyone should have comics.

As usual, the Flashy links first:

• It’s always fun when comic book covers break the fourth wall like this Flash & Robin team-up.
• Wow. Nice Inertia vs. Impulse pic!
• Extra Life: Now THAT would be a good movie…
• Francis Manapul spotlight at WonderCon
• White Lantern Captain Boomerang Cosplay at WonderCon
• Devin “Zoom” Johnson

More comics stuff.

• Secret Headquarters’ Local Comic Shop Etiquette Part 3
• Another retailer responds to the LCS etiquette tips
• Fan art mash-ups: comic book characters and oscar winning movies
• Grumpy Old Fan on renumbering DC’s comics.
• Trade perspectives: Have a Geoff Johns Omnibus, why don’t you? ~ Collected Editions

I spent the weekend moving to a new city, so posting’s a bit light. Here’s the round-up of last week’s linkblogging.

First, the Flashy links:

• New Flash forum: The Fastest Forum Alive
• Comics Nexus asks of Flashpoint, Where Is Wally West?
• Comics Nexus considers: Is Geoff Johns leaving The Flash for his new Aquaman series?
• That F’ing Monkey reviews McDonalds’ Kid Flash & Captain Cold Happy Meal toys

And the rest.

• Local Comic Shop (LCS) Etiquette Tips from Secret Headquarters: Part 1, Part 2 (via @johannadc at Comics Worth Reading)
• The Problem with the New Teen Titans (The Cool Kidz Table)
• Two pieces on Lois Lane: Lois Lane Needs Her Own Comic Book Series, As Superwoman (Geekscape) and Dean Trippe’s proposal for a series of young adult novels, Lois Lane, Girl Reporter.
• Photo of a building I drove past recently. Do you think there might be a comic store in there?

  

• Tom Bondurant concludes his look at DC’s ongoing series since COIE at Grumpy Old Fan. It’s interesting to see which ones have lasted the longest. #1 is Hellblazer. #2 is The Flash (Wally West).

Some linkblogging for the weekend:

Flashy links:

• Know Your Flashes – Evil Inc. by Brad Guigar – A Daily Webcomic
• The Fastest Forum Alive – new Flash discussion board launched this week.
• Ask…The Rogues! at iFanboy
• Reverse Flash by Joel Gomez at FFA
• That F’ing Monkey looks back at the Filmation Flash cartoons rom the 1960s and The Chemo-Creature. (I reviewed the DVD set a while back.)
• Flash fans who like Wally West may (or may not) appreciate the snarky commentary of @BitterWallyWest on twitter. Flash fans who don’t like Wally West…probably won’t.
• The Rogues Kick Ass has been posting a series of covers from Brazillian reprint Flash comics from the Silver Age. Some of them featured all-new covers, while others redrew the American covers.

Flashpoint and other comics:

• Blatant Insubordination writes about Flashpoint Fatigue at Primary Ignition
• ComicsAlliance on digital comics: Why They Can’t Be Both a Shark and a Goldfish
• Lex Luthor’s cake-stealing is now canon – Topless Robot
• Jess Fink writes about art rip-offs
• The I’ds of March — as in “I’d do this if I were in charge…” — at Comics Should Be Good!
• DC finally gave up trying to keep commenters civil at The Source and closed comments. Unsurprisingly, Comics Alliance finds this amusing.
• Grumpy Old Fan on Flashpoint and DC’s June solicitations
• Collected Editions considers: Is Apple the new digital Comics Code Authority?
• Flash isn’t the only speedster whose world will change around him: SONIC Attacks Continuity Issues with June’s “GENESIS: REBOOT”

C2E2. Not much Flash or Flashpoint news out of C2E2. DC was being very cagey about both. That said, we now know that Hunter Zolomon is in Flashpoint, and while DC would rather tweak Wally West’s fans than answer any questions about him, we do know that he gets chased by someone with a white lantern ring in a tie-in.

• DC Nation liveblogs at CBR and at Newsarama
• DC Universe liveblogs at CBR and at Newsarama
• Brightest Day panel at CBR

Some weekend linkblogging…

Art

• The Line It Is Drawn #31 – Superheroes, Then and Now –Super-heroes today meet up with their first appearances at Comics Should Be Good. There’s a Bart Allen one (Kid Flash and Impulse), but the most effective is Barbara Gordon (Oracle and Batgirl).
• Superhero Where’s Waldo: Find the Invisible Woman in a Marvel vs. DC Battle Mural – ComicsAlliance
• Rogues studies by Justiniano – TRKA
• Wall-E and Robin (via Fastest Fan Alive)
• Flash by Sean Ellery – FFA
• Unused Flash: Rogues’ Revenge cover by Scott Kolins – TRKA. I wonder if this was from the early planning stages, before it was tied to Final Crisis and when the Flash was still supposed to appear in it. (IIRC, the original description was that Wally and Piper were teaming up to bring down the Rogues while the Rogues went after Inertia.)
• Aneses Customs Ultimate Flash action figure – FFA

Other stuff

• Bradley Cooper is “reluctant” to play the Flash – Digital Spy
• Francis Manapul has the need for speed – Interview with Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times (via @SpeedsterSite)
• A Silver Age: Guild Jewellery’s New DC Comics Silver Collection at ComicsAlliance
• Review: Flash: Dastardly Death of the Rogues at Collected Editions
• Grumpy Old Fan: Going on about ongoing series, Part Two at Robot 6
• That F’ing Monkey has come up with a product tie-in that DC must make happen: Flash Coffee!