Flashy Links

• Villain Spotlight: Double Down and Funko Pop Returns at That F’ing Monkey.
• Student creates the world’s fastest shoe with a printer (Geek.com)
• The Culture Cast reviews Flash #10
• Show us your . . . Flash museum at Chicago Reader
• The Weekly Crisis Moment of the Day: Why Fly When You Can Run?

Comic-Con Follow-Up

• Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo is ramping up publicity for September’s show in Los Angeles. Read about my experience & photos from last year
• Committed: The Altered State of Comic-Con (CSBG) considers what Comic-Con, trade shows and big festivals like Burning Man have in common.

Comics & Movies

• Comics Alliance asks: Why Don’t Hit Superhero Movies Lead to More Comics Sales?
• The Culture Cast on IMAX and 3D movies
• Scott Mendelson: Who Needs Origins? 8 Comic Book Films That Just Dove Right In (Huffington Post)

More Comics & Stuff

• Collected Editions reviews Static Shock: Supercharged and examines how creative conflicts damaged the resulting work.
• Weird: Official Fake Justice League Minifigures in Japan designed to look like knock-offs. (Comics Alliance)
• The Naive Project: Brain aneurysm survivor Siike Donnelly is seeking artists for a “jam” style comic to raise funds for the Brain Aneurysm Foundation (Comics Cure)
• The Gold Standard talks character rollbacks at Comics Nexus/Inside Pulse
• Comics Not Just For Kids Anymore, Reports 85,000th Mainstream News Story. It’s true. The Onion only had to make up the numbers.
• Economically Healthy ‘Daily Planet’ Now Most Unrealistic Part Of Superman Universe – another good Onion story
• Fan art: Era-Displaced Comic Book Characters in the latest “The Line It Is Drawn” at CSBG

Some weekend linkblogging…

Flashy Links

• So this is where Wally West has been hanging out. Holy Hangover, Batman
• Eaglemoss New 52 Kid Flash figurine plus custom Linda Park and custom Max Mercury by Ciro Di Lella – Fastest Fan Alive
• That F’ing Monkey spotlights the Flash in Little League
• Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues!: The Flash and the Invaders mash-up

Flash #10 Reviews

• IGN
• Weekly Comic Book Review
• ScienceFiction.com
• CBR
• Population GO

Other DC

• Who’s Who: The Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe, Vol II – Firestorm Fan
• The Not So New DCU – Girls Gone Geek
• Review: Batman: Earth One at Collected Editions
• Comics Nexus looks at Flash, Superman, Savage Hawkman & All Star Western in the DC Relaunch: 52 Weeks Later Part 4

More Comics

• Brian Buccellato’s Foster #4 and Foster Anthology are now available in the Dog Year store.
• Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely at Glasgow Comic Con
• Podcasters hold weight loss challenge/fundraiser to benefit the Hero Initiative: Becoming Less of a Man for your Heroes
• MonkeyBrain Comics Launches Early
• Insufferable takes another swerve this week at Thrillbent
• Superhero Economics: Bruce Wayne vs. Peter Parker [INFOGRAPHIC] at Block Talk
• The Shackles of Taste – sampling new comics vs. reading what you like (via Robot 6)
• Oliver Nome (Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost, Fathom: Kiana) is recovering from brain tumor surgery. The campaign to help him cover his costs is $2,059 from its goal.

Some weekend linkblogging.

First the Flashy stuff…

• Mark Waid reveals the Secret First Appearance of the Flash at Blastoff Comics
• Moment of the Day – Flash vs. Black Racer at The Weekly Crisis
• Flash drive pun fail at Failbook
• 5 inch Flash at That F’ing Monkey
• Adobe has announced that they’re shutting down mobile Flash for Android 4.1. Some of the articles in the tech press have taken a punny approach, like VentureBeat and Techcitement. I actually would have gone with the second issue of “Emergency Stop,” but I think Techcitement’s choice of “You’ll never run again” is better, because of the double meaning of “run” when it comes to software.

Some art…

• What if Pixar made a Justice League movie? at Kotaku
• If comic characters had been created by VERY different artists – CSBG
• You’re reading Little League, the fan webcomic about the Justice League as elementary school children, right?
• Interview with Dustin Koetsch, artist of DC Minimalist Posters, at Firestorm Fan
• Tons of new Flash & Rogues scans & fan art at The Rogues Kick Ass