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Speed Reading: Flash #15 Review Round-Up

Speed Reading: Review Round-Up

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Some recentish reviews of Flash issues found around the web:

Flash vol.1: Move Forward (HC)

Flash #13

Flash #14

Other

Speed Reading: Notpocalypse Edition

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Sorry I haven’t had time to keep this round-up column going lately. I’ve picked a few highlights since the last round-up, focusing on the more recent ones:

Sterling Gates talks about that Kid Flash series that was announced in 2009 but never actually launched, saying “I don’t think it ever made it past the initial pitch and a couple written scenes.”

The FLASHPOINT: KID FLASH LOST mini I wrote in 2011 was sort of the tone we were planning on for that series: serious stories with humor in the mix. Woulda been a belter, too, with Bart, Max Mercury, and Xs returning to Blue Valley, Nebraska to fight villainy…and other super speedsters.

Comic Book Legends Revealed brings us a Christmas story with the Three Dimwits — who were basically the Three Stooges, inserted wholesale into the Golden Age Flash comics by Gardner Fox.

Newsarama tells the story of how Mike Wieringo’s first Impulse drawing made its way back to Mark Waid.

Speaking of Mark Waid, his run on the Flash was voted #36 in the Top 100 comic runs as selected by Comics Should Be Good readers back in October, the only Flash run to make the list.

Brian Buccellato is writing a revival of The Black Bat, a pulp-era superhero who’s been largely forgotten in favor of that other guy who dresses up as a bat and fights crime. Here are two interviews at Newsarama and at CBR.

Jim Zub breaks down where your $2.99 goes on a typical indie comic. There isn’t much left over for the writer and artist. Follow-up: looking at digital sales.

Jill Pantozzi has resurrected “Hey, That’s My Cape!” at IGN, starting with a piece of advice that sounds simple on its face, but seems to be hard for comics fans to follow through on: Stop reading comics you don’t like. For me, the last straw was Countdown to Final Crisis. From that point on, I resolved to only read comics that looked interesting, not those that I felt obligated to read. I slip up sometimes, but overall I enjoy my comics more than I used to.

Update: CBR has the results of their poll for who fans want to debut in the New 52. A certain missing speedster handily takes the number one spot.

Speed Reading

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Some linkblogging catch-up. Things are going to be a bit slow since the software I was using to build the round-ups doesn’t work anymore, and I’m going to have clean up the lists more-or-less manually until I have time to write something that will clean it up automatically.

First the Flashy links.

Flash #0 review at Comic Book and Movie Reviews
The Culture Cast reviews The Flash #0
Easter eggs in Flash #1 (1987) in last week’s Comic Book Legends Revealed at CSBG
The Dark Flash (Walter West) makes Newsarama’s top 10 grim and gritty superhero makeovers (via @CraigRMacDonald)
This Month in DC History: Barry Allen and Iris
Wednesday Comics vs. The New 52: The Flash (Every Day is Like Wednesday)
Dan DiDio talks Stephanie Brown, Wally West and Donna Troy at Newsarama

Other comics/fandom links

Francis Manapul’s Amethyst variant cover for Sword of Sorcery #2 (CBR)
Art: Saturday Morning in Front of La Salle De Justice (Firestorm Fan)
DC Comics August sales analysis at The Beat
Marvel in the bubble of 1992 (TCJ excerpt from Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story and Peter David on the state of the comics industry in 1998. The more things change…
Interesting thoughts on the Kickstarter audience from Ryan Browne (via @ComicsAlliance)
SDCC vs. NYCC Attendance comparison by Alex Zalben
Noblemania: The only two surviving letters written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger (via The Beat)
Thrillbent is back, with more “Insufferable” and a new series called “Pax Arena”
Speed Force’s own Greg Elias reviews Wonder Woman: The Twelve Labors at Collected Editions
Wow, the effort some people will put in to avoid Spoilers…. Shortpacked: We’ll have to revisit this in January
New DC Comics fan blog: Captain Carrot’s Burrow (via @FirestormFan)
Babylon 5 and the rise of internet fandom

Other stuff:

I got to see Endeavour during the space shuttle’s trip through Los Angeles.
What does it mean to be entitled to your opinion? (via @laura_hudson)
Recommended: This is True, a weird-news newsletter. I’ve been a subscriber for years. It’s often funny and always thought-provoking.