Highlights from the week’s Twitter activity:

Search Subjects

• Someone searched for a *review* of Flash: Rebirth #5. Talk about overly optimistic.
• Brand confusion: someone searched for Wizard World San Diego.
• Character confusion: a search for “Flash Gordon Shazam”

Not Wizard World

• And the name conversion is complete: Wizard just announced tickets for “Philadelphia Comic Con 2010 Wizard World Convention”
• Actually, it sounds less like a name and more like an exercise in keyword stuffing.
• I wonder what “Philadelphia Comic-Con” (with a dash) will have to say about that name. Especially considering it’s this weekend.

Other

• I’m only picking up 2 comics this week. I’d hold off until next week, but one of them is The Unknown.
• RT @liabrown1: Deeply confused but highly amused by trending topic #happybdaytop 😀 Fun trivia: DC calendar gives the Top’s bday as Jan 22.
• Thoughts on Evil Dead / Army of Darkness.
• Didn’t watch V on Tuesday, but as a comic geek I can’t help but think it should have premiered today instead.
• Hey, look, the Girl Genius side story on @Othar has started up again!
• A surprising number of people expect Flash: Rebirth to finish with no more delays.
• Even spam can be funny: @lol_spam for #FollowFriday.

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• Ha! Next week’s shipping list includes “AMBUSH BUG YEAR NONE #7 (OF 6)”
• And Ignition City concludes next week!
• Random facts: Biggest category on Speed Force is Flash News. Smallest is Covers. Second-biggest: General.
• Top 5 tags are Rebirth, Geoff Johns, Linkblogging, Barry Allen, and Wally West. Bottom of the list? ~200 tags used only once each.
• Ugh. SciFiWire comment sections. It’s like someone took the worst of Slashdot, Newsarama & the DC Message Boards set them loose. (Okay, maybe not Slashdot)
• Kid Flash vs Mirror Master story in DCU Halloween Special. (This means I have 3 Halloween specials to read: DC, Vertigo & Perhapanauts.)
• RT @GeoffJohns0: Ethan did an amazing job on Wally West’s new uniform…Very clean, very familiar, yet unique!
• BN:Flash variant? RT @GeoffJohns0: And for everyone dying to see @FrancisManapul‘s first official piece on THE FLASH…we’ll see it soon.
• Didn’t notice when I skimmed the TOC yesterday: DCU Halloween Special also has a Flash/Superman race.
• This should make a number of fans happy: Retweeting @GeoffJohns0: I cannot believe how fast Scott Kolins is. Like lightning.
• Retweeting @KelsonV: And the award for Most Disturbing Use of an Alarm Clock in a Prime Time Show goes to… FlashForward!
• RT @GeoffJohns0: “Society” episode of SMALLVILLE is actually an insane DCU infused two-part epic. Part 1 is “Society” & Part 2 is “Legends.”
• Huh. Mirror Master doesn’t like Bloody Mary. Who knew?
• Flash/Kid Flash creative team: @GeoffJohns0 @SterlingGates @FrancisManapul #FollowFriday
• So we had Barry & Blackhawk in the Battle of the Bulge in Brave & the Bold…

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• Still no plans to change Wally’s name…just like the last 500 times the question’s been asked. (via @SpeedsterSite)
• Weird: A collected edition of Man-Eating Cow and Chainsaw Vigilante (from The Tick) is coming out this week.
• Spam on a list of comics shipping one week: “For the most part I agree with what you are stating here.” What, you agree that they shipped?
• I know I should be angry or disappointed about this [yet another delay], but it’s gotten to the point where it’s so ridiculous that it’s amusing.
• I think I’ve fixed the plugin conflict w/ the URL shortener. Please let me know if this link breaks: https://speedforce.org/6129 Thanks!
• RT @lol_spam: Spam subject of the day here! “Teh internets wait”
• Useful: Mozilla Plugin Check. It solved a problem I had with the other kind of Flash.
• Comics fans worth reading: @SpeedsterSite @liabrown1 @ComicBookLegacy @tftlongbox #FollowFriday
• I used to check monthly for schedule changes. Then weekly. Now I’m looking daily. Sometimes I forget I’ve already looked & check twice a day
• RT @lol_spam: I think I read that in Scott Pilgrim… RT @absweetmarie: Spam subject line du jour: “Vegan attack in Manhattan.”
• Is it just me, or is Wizard World acting self-destructive? RT @Robot6: NYCC staffers kicked out of Big Apple Comic Con
• Watching Conan the Destroyer. I’ve decided the crystal castle should be Kryptonian.

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Co-Feature

• Sad to see such negativity on the Flash co-feature. What, it’s not enough for Barry’s fans to win, Wally’s fans have to lose too?
• The negativity seems to be from Barry fans who don’t want Wally to have backup stories in Barry’s book.
• Thank you, @RokkKrinn! I just read Comic Bloc this morning and all 4 major Barry boosters there weighed in against it or w/reservations. in reply to RokkKrinn
• Re-reading the comments on an old post from March: Co-Features, or How To Make All Flash Fans Happy.
• To go w/Barry fans who don’t want Wally polluting their book, I’ve found Wally fans who find a backup insulting. Some ppl r never satisfied

Planetary and Delays

• I have held Planetary #27 in my hands. Only question now: Do I read it tonight, or reread the whole series first?
• Thanks for the Planetary suggestions. Think I’ll take the life’s uncertain: eat dessert first approach, read it tonight, THEN reread the series
• After waiting years for Planetary to wrap, a couple months for Flash: Rebirth seems trivial. Annoying&frustrating, but hardly infuriating.
• Funny: just realized when the previous issue of Planetary came out, BART was the Flash.

Other

• Created a Flickr pool for Long Beach Comic Con b/c I couldn’t find one. Turns out one existed, but spelled it “Comicon.” That’s not its name
• Some cons are “Comic Con” or “Comic-Con,” others are “Comicon.” It’s like calling the pool “Long Bach Comic Con.” Who’s going to find that?
• Comic bloggers worth reading: @JohannaDC @HighFiveComics @RokkKrinn @TheNerdyBird @OnceUponAGeek @WeeklyCrisis #FollowFriday
• Realized why the Japanese name for Optimus Prime bugs me: “Convoy” implies more than one vehicle. Maybe it’s a translation issue?
• Does no one on Smallville connect Clark, the guy who wears red & blue and is always around weird stuff, with the “Red-Blue Blur?”
• Site update: Bart Allen on Smallville.

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• RT @karlkerschl: Posted page 9 inks from my Flash story! It was fun to play with all of the different styles on this one.
• Interesting. Now it’s “Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con.” RT @WizardWorld: New Logo.
• Can’t choose between Stan Lee and Jim Lee? Meet both at the same time at Long Beach Comic-Con!
• One of the Flash’s Rogues must be on vacation in SoCal. Not sure I believe 103 degrees, but it is seriously warm.
• Bought this week: Wednesday Comics, Madame Xanadu, Farscape, Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance. Of the 4, I’m only caught up on Madame Xanadu. I’ve got some reading to do tonight!
• Funny Firefox easter egg: type “about:robots” into the location bar (via @Aeire & @IsobelWren)
• Has Marvel ever called a Spider-Man story “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” or “Last Dance with Mary Jane”? If not, how have they missed it?
• FlashForward: Sulu and Shakespeare team up to investigate a time-travel incident.
• Huh. I have 1,234 posts on Comic Bloc.
• Let’s just say I’m glad I only paid $1.75 to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. How do you make giant robots & explosions tedious?
• Apparently, you can now buy Squee! in a tube.
• 4 of the 6 whenever-it-comes-out comics I’m reading are just 1 issue from the conclusion. 5/7 if you include Ignition City.

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