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Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-09-13

Thoughts

  • Today I learned that you can have more than 1 longbox worth of comics & trades in piles and not realize it.
  • Anyone else find themselves driving behind a dark red Mercury Mystique and think, “Shouldn’t that be blue?”
  • Domain transfer went through just in time before getting overcharged for renewal! Now to get it set up at the new registrar.

Photos

  • The Shade.
  • Wow there were a lot of women dressed as Rogue at Dragon*Con. And people took a lot of pictures of them.
  • It’s tough to look for “flash” and “zoom” on a photo site.
  • Wow! Incredible photo set! RT @liabrown1: Awesome collection of Rogues (and Flash) cosplayer photos.
  • LOST props at D23 featuring the Flash/Green Lantern comic (the one w/the polar bear).
  • SDCC pix have mostly taken over top 10 slots on my Flickr stats, but Wondercon’s Silk Spectre & Dr Manhattan are still #1
  • 9 shelving units of graphic novels, & they file Sandman & V for Vendetta under superheroes?

    Superheroes-Sandman-Elric

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Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-09-06

  • RT @karlkerschl: Wed. Comics is finished! Drawn, scripted & delivered. It's as though a million tiny black holes have opened up in my heart.
  • CBR & Mark Waid talk about “technology advancing faster than Velocity on a caffeine high”
  • RT @lol_spam: Spam subject: “Mass geek suicide” – Must be reaction to the Disney/Marvel deal.
  • The term “maxiseries” needs to die. “Miniseries” does just fine for a book with a planned 12-issue run.
  • Weird comics news of the day! RT @Robot6: Taxi explodes outside DC Comics offices.
  • Some comics fans for #followfriday @SpeedsterSite @johannadc @collecteditions @onceuponageek @TheNerdyBird @RokkKrinn
  • RT @lol_spam: Spam subject: “Grow Giant Snake in Pants” Someone didn't read the Evil Overlord List. Turning into a giant snake never helps.
  • Android market has a comics category now! Sadly, it doesn’t have any comics, just novelties like canned applause.
  • There ARE comics on the Android Market – just not in the Comics category!

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Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-08-30

  • Cool Flash & other wallpapers at DCU Online website – prob. been there forever, but I haven’t been to the site lately
  • Long Beach Comic Con is back on Twitter @LongBeach_CC
  • RT@speedingbullet: If I had a cosmic treadmill to move through time, right now I’d use it to go to Wednesday so I could read Flash:Rebirth#4
  • This week I’ve got 5 definite comics (Flash:Rebirth, Madame Xanadu, Wednesday Comics, Dynamo 5, Unknown) & 3 maybes. Next week, just one.
  • Found a 5-year-old draft post on death and super-heroes. Post ID is 404. Seems appropriate.
  • I love it! Photoshop Filters as super-heroes via @comicsalliance
  • Mini Review: Flash: Rebirth #4. 3 “Oh #$%!” Moments, 1 “Oh, please…” & 3 “HELL, YEAH!”s.
  • Upcoming cons: @FanExpoCanada this weekend, Dragon*Con @daily_dragon next week, @LongBeach_CC in October #followfriday
  • Found a blog scraper site that turned “speed force” into “zip accolade.”
  • 1,999 comments approved on speedforce.org ! Who wants to be #2,000?
  • And the 2,000th comment goes to Lee H! If I’d planned this ahead of time, I’d have picked out a prize or something.
  • Flash Fact: A SIlver Age storyline index would be empty. The comics were all stand-alone stories until the 1970s.
  • Donna Troy is “one of those people a nickname doesn’t stick to, like Jean Grey” – Dan Didio #fanexpo

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New Speedster Names (Humor)

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Wally and Linda try to come up with new names for the third Flash. Lightning, Cheetah, Pegasus...Last night I logged into Twitter and found myself in the middle of a storm in which people were posting joke names for speedsters. It all started when Geoff Johns posted the following:

  • @GeoffJohns0: RT @Brainiacphive Hello. I have a name for you for a Flash character: Speed Date. #newspeedsters #

Well, people went with it! You can read them all at #newspeedsters until the posts drop off of Twitter search’s radar in a few weeks. Some of my favorites:

  • jonahlantern: this one is easy. Bad guy team. Jamaican, with ice powers on top of speed. Cool Runnings. #
  • blacaucasian: Runs Really Fast. Because he runs really fast. #
  • mgrabois: Usain Bolt # (a popular suggestion, but I think this was the first)
  • jester1436: Quickstep and Foxtrot #
  • MarkWaid: Charlie Hustle #
  • Knippenberg: Captain 23-Skidoo #
  • mattfraction: Th Flsh # (@shanajeanh remarked, “too fast for vowels?” #)
  • Mike2112McKone suggested several, including: Zip, Zap, Whoosh, Reverb, Skid and iSpeed.
  • Bart_Allen: All Day I Dream About Speed– another corporate sponsored speedster # (in response to my suggestion of Sprint – and in case you’re wondering, look at the first letters.)
  • ValVictory: Krackle and Pop as in the sounds of the speedforce # (I suggested “The Sounds of the Speed Force” it sounded like a band, and VV agreed, saying “Anyone play bass?”)
  • ValVictory: happy fun American run fast time man — That one is from overseas. #
  • ValVictory: Sir speeds a lot — The U.K. flash #
  • bobbynash: Fast Bastard #
  • housetoastonish: Speedy Alberto Gonzales – He’s Quick To Judge #

Quicksilver? Very Taken.

Stephen Wacker chimed in with a number of characters based on people in the comics industry.

  • Ran Didio. Slow-ey Cavalieri. Street Tomasi. Matt Traction. Slowing Gates. “On your Mark, get set, WAID!” #
  • I can’t stop….Drag Rucka. Ethan Van Slider. Slow Quesada. Richard Running. gRANt. Chasin’ Aaron. Axel Alonso. #

And here are my own humble contributions:

  • Mr. Zip, of course! (As in the panels from “The Return of Barry Allen.” I was really surprised no one had suggested it yet.)
  • The Running Man
  • Sprint(tm), the corporate-sponsored speedster
  • The Hot Flash
  • Zoom’s little brother, Vrooom
  • Greased Lightning
  • Spud Racer – the Mr. Potato-Head Flash.
  • Theed Racer, the Flash from Naboo
  • Race Windu. He’s powered by Force Speed instead of the Speed Force.

Linda suggests Mr. Zip.

Failed Event Comics

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I’m not entirely sure who started it, but on Friday morning a lot of comics fans and pros on Twitter were posting joke titles with the #failedeventcomics tag. Here are my contributions.

  • Zero Power
  • The Dark Knight Strikes Out
  • Sinestro Corp Store
  • Crisis on Infinite Earths II: Crisis Harder
  • Violins United
  • Vibe: Rebirth
  • Retweet @CapnCarrot: Transformers Disassembled
  • Archie vs. Predator
  • Infinity Ganthet
  • Rain of the Soup, Man!
  • War of the Dogs