Flashy Links

• Flash Birthday Cake
• Flash Annual #1 at Comic Book and Movie Reviews
• One Year Later: The Flash – Comics Bulletin
• Our Valued Customers: How to improve the Olympics
• Flash as the Running Man, Stand by T, and more comic book/Stephen King mashups at CSBG’s The Line it is Drawn
• Comic Book Easter Eggs: Francis Manapul Gets “Lost” in the Pages of Flash

Plus lots of stuff at Fastest Fan Alive and The Rogues Kick Ass.

More Comics & Stuff

• Have you nominated your choices for Comics Should Be Good’s Top 100 Comic Book Runs yet?
• Mike Sterling describes The reader’s curse. I know it well.
• Boxes Within Boxes – More on digital vs physical comics, moving, and ownership, from Westfield’s KC Column
• Biff! Pow! Thwack! How Not To Write Comics Criticism – Dylan Meconis
• Trying to figure out the New 52 cancellation threshold at The Beat
• Thrillbent Comics is relaunching next week with new series. Meanwhile, Insufferable continues.
• My photos of Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at LAX – nothing to do with the Flash, but it was awesome to see.
• Superman vs. Doctor Wertham – CLBDF
• I’m walking to raise funds for food allergy research and advacy, and I could use your help.

Flashy Links

• Flash cups & glasses at That F’ing Monkey
• Evil Genius Productions Outfits Artist Francis Manapul With A Flash Mask – ComicsAlliance
• The New Rogues Gallery – All About the Flash
• The Secret Origin of Earth 2 at Big Shiny Robot
• The Full Run: Mark Waid’s Flash (Part 3) at Comics Bulletin
• Francis Manapul’s layouts for Flash Annual #1
• The Last Run for The Flash (Barry Allen [Pre-Crisis]): Part 1 — #270 thru #284 – Comics And…Other Imaginary Tales

Conventions

• My photos from Chicon 7 (Worldcon 2012)
• FAN EXPO: Drawing with Amanda Conner, Tony Daniel and Francis Manapul – Comic Book Resources
• The Fire and Water Podcast: Dragon*Con
• Dragon*Con 2012 round-up and Photo Gallery at Girls Gone Geek
• YOU are a fan! I know one when I see one! – the idea of visible fandom has been around for a long time.

Art

• The Crisis on Infinite Walkyverses limited-edition poster is awesome. And I missed my chance to buy one. – Shortpacked!/Dumbing of Age
• Superheroes Get New Jobs!
• Video Game/Comic Book character mash-ups
• Superheroes Get New Sidekicks – CSBG

More DC Comics

• DC/Transformers: The Crossover that could have been.
• This Is the New DC – Thoughts on what digital release of the once-scrapped Elseworlds Giant means for DC now vs. then, from Comics Worth Reading
• DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: July 2012 – The Beat
• The Ultimate Problem with The New 52 – food for thought at Comic Book Movie

More Comics

• Rank your top 10 favorite comic book runs for CSBG’s Top 100 poll, now through Sep 30th.
• Digital vs. physical comics in terms of moving and the hidden cost of homeowner’s insurance at Comics Worth Reading
• This is what it’s like to be harassed on the Internet – DC Women Kicking Ass. This is truly messed up. If you think sexism & harrassment online isn’t a problem, read this & think again.
• Big Event Comics Death Fatigue at The Beat
• The World’s Most Expensive Comic Book Art (And Why Prices Keep Climbing) – Wired.com
• Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords – Wired.com

Flash #12

• The Flash #12 review at ScienceFiction.com
• The Flash #12 at Weekly Comic Book Review
• The Flash #12 review at Population GO
• The Flash #12 at The Culture Cast with Zack and Nick
• Flash #12 review by Comic Book and Movie Reviews
• Flash #12 and more at Weekly Crisis

Flash Annual #1

• Flash Annual #1 Review at Comic book movie
• The Flash Annual #1 review at ScienceFiction.com
• Flash Annual #1 review at The Culture Cast
• Comics Pick of the Week: The Flash Annual #1 at Entropic Worlds

Other

• Flash: Crossfire review by W.L. Swarts

Catching up on linkblogging!

Flashy links

• The Weekly Crisis Moments of the Day: Flash Stops on a Dime and Super Speed and Baseball
• That F’ing Monkey: Cosmic Treadmill, Shark Week and Superhero Sexy Time
• Jesse Quick cosplay
• Mirror Master at FFA
• Captain Cold makes Angelus’ list of DC Comics’ Greatest Villains at Comic Book Movie
• Cast of LOST in Flash #12
• Agent of S.T.Y.L.E. – FLASH Fashion Facts at Newsarama

And be sure to follow The Rogues Kick Ass and The Fastest Fan Alive!

Flash Reviews

• The Culture Cast reviews The Flash #11
• Martin Gray reviews DCU Presents #12: Kid Flash
• Murtha reviews DCU Presents #12
• Barry Allen’s Comics reviews DC Universe Presents #12
• Collected Editions reviews Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told
• CBR reviews The Flash #12
• My Humble Review: Flash #12
• Barry Alen’s Comics reviews Flash #12
• DC Signature Series The Flash (Jay Garrick) Figure Review

Art

• Jay Garrick Flash Commission by Andrew J Harmon on deviantART
• The Line it is Drawn: Tribute to Joe Kubert
• Superhero 101 fan art at The Line it is Drawn (CSBG)
• Patterns: Joe Kubert “false sense of security” covers
• Impulse- Bart Allen Cross Stitch
• Flash (Wally West) Custom Action Figure

More DC comics

• Who's Who: The Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe, Vol 3 – Firestorm Fan
• Grumpy Old Fan: Used universes
• Justice League Customizable Photo Frame found by Firestorm Fan
• A Bunch of Vehicles Talk Smack About Wonder Woman’s Robot Plane (CSBG)
• How the New 52 saved comics – The Beat
• The webcomic “Little League” is now called JL8 due to trademark issues

Comics History

• CBLDF has a fascinating set before-and-after comparisons showing of pre-Comics Code stories that were reprinted after the Code went into effect, and what had to be changed to appease it.
• Comic book styles from around the world – How do comics reflect the countries they were created in?
• Taking comics seriously at Colgate Connect includes the history of American comics in 6 panels (via The Beat)

More Comics and Fandom

• Comic Relief interviews Mark Waid on Joe Kubert, Daredevil, cynicism, BOOM!, Superman and more.
• Why Comic-to-Screen Translation is So Difficult – Comic Book Movie
• Mark Waid’s 4 Panels That Never Work – The Gutters
• A Comics Crusader Takes On The Digital Future – NPR interviews Mark Waid
• Olympians: Superhero Bodies and What Real Athletes Look Like – ComicsAlliance
• Coming back to your LCS and keeping up the relationship with comics (IFanboy and Robot 6)
• KC Column on moving comics at Westfield. I only have 25-30 years’ worth, and my last move convinced me to cut them down severely. They have a lot more! (via Comics Worth Reading)
• Taking the Comic Out of the Comic Con – The Culture Cast with Zack and Nick talks Wizard World Chicago

Catching up on linkblogging…

Flashy Links

• Losing Weight The Barry Allen Way! at Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep!!
• DCU Club Infinite Earth 2013 Pictures [dead link] of including Wally West, Elongated Man, Larfleeze and more.
• That F’ing Monkey: Aw Yeah Comics

And of course there’s always new stuff at The Rogues Kick Ass and The Fastest Fan Alive.

Art

• Great fan art mashups for CSBG’s The Line it is Drawn #100 including Magneto vs the Borg and a lot more
• Justice League of the Wild West by Denis Medri
• DC steampunk by J.L. Straw at Ladies Making Comics
• Get Your Own Parody Comic Book Portrait! – Once Upon a Geek
• Art: MFA Superhero Typographic Classifications on the Behance Network – Superheroes drawn using letters and symbols from different styles of fonts.
• Davis Willis (Shortpacked!, Dumbing of Age) is working on a COIE homage poster featuring the Walkyverse and DoA versions of his characters. [Edit: linked to a post further along in the process.]
• A Compendium of Cool Comics Cosplay: August 3rd

Cons

• Fixing the cons of Comic-Con – UTSanDiego
• With SDCC over, SoCal comics fans can plan for fall events like Long Beach Comic and Horror Con and Stan Lee’s Comikaze. Here’s my Long Beach 2011 writeup and photos

Comics Industry Commentary

• Interesting thoughts: Vertigo Comics – A Decline of an Empire at The Weekly Crisis
• Thought-provoking article at The Beat: Why DC and Marvel will never truly target female readers. Don’t miss responses: Even Glaciers Melt at DC Women Kicking Ass and It Ain’t Over at Comic Book Grrrl.
• Grumpy Old Fan: Consequences, consistency and idea-making in a shared universe.
• Cartoonist Battles Frivolous Lawsuits with Comedic Protest – CBLDF on the Oatmeal/Funnyjunk/Carreon case
• The Hobbit being stretched into 3 movies reminds me of last year’s post, What If…Lord of the Rings had been an “Event” Comic?
• Interesting question & responses at Newsarama: Is Continuity Really A Draw For Superhero Universes?
• DC sales analysis for June at The Beat

More Comics

• Read Comics in Public Day is coming up on August 28 (via The Beat)
• Dark Knight Rises: Bane as the Cumulative Villain – 4thletter
• It’s been nearly 5 years since Flash artist Mike Wieringo’s death. Honor his memory with a donation to The Hero Initiative on M-Day – Mark Gruenwald/Mike Wieringo Memorial (August 12)
• It turns out there’s a Tamaran Building in Pasadena, California.
• Wild Blue Yonder, a 5-issue miniseries by Zach Howard Mike Raicht Austin Harrison, looks like it could be cool. “In a post-apocalyptic society in the sky, Cola, a teenaged girl fighter pilot fights to protect The Dawn, her flying fortress and home.” They’ve been working on it off and on for a few years and are raising funds on Kickstarter to focus on the project, due for release next year.

• Comic Vine reviews The Flash #11
• Barry Allen’s Comics reviews Flash #11
• The Flash #11 Review – IGN
• The Flash 11 review at Retcon Punch
• REVIEW: The Flash #11 – Major Spoilers
• The Flash #11 review at Population GO
• The Flash #11 at Weekly Comic Book Review
• The Culture Cast reviews Flash #11 [New]