• Is BlogExplosion worth 42 cents?
• Just read Hexed #1 on my #Android based G1 phone. Filmstrip format works surprisingly well. 1 app per comic could get cluttered, though.
• *sigh* FC: Legion of 3 Worlds #4 pushed back 2 more weeks to April 8. L3W 5 still set for May 13, at least.
• First impression of reading digital comics on G1 Android phone via @iversecomics and @boomstudios’ Hexed
• Bought this week: Tangent: Superman’s Reign, Noble Causes, Dynamo 5, Mysterius the Unfathomable. Still have to read LAST week’s comics!
• Finally read part 1 of Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader.

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• Whoa… Just noticed I broke 1000 posts at ComicBloc sometime last week!
• Thank you, WordPress Autosave! (Updated a post and forgot to save it before closing the tab.)
• #Comiccon buzz is all NYCC, but I wonder when SDCC will even ANNOUNCE hotel availability. Last year they went on SALE 1st week of February
• Legion of Three Worlds 5 pushed to May 13 according to DC Direct Channel. L3W 4 comes out March 25. Issue 3 comes out tomorrow.
• Appropriate: “Ballad of Barry Allen” during rush hour. “Seems so slow” indeed.
• Anyone going to NYCC, please let me know if you make any cool Flash finds!
• Wow, who would’ve thought the person in the Lightning Rod was actually Jack Kirby!
• Just kidding of course. As I’m sure you all know by now, it was the DCU’s Grant Morrison in the lightning rod.
• Bought this week: Buffy, Legion of 3 Worlds, Farscape, House of Mystery, Dynamo 5, Scott Pilgrim
• Remind me not to read the comments section on Newsarama. I always end up depressed about humanity. Or at least comics fans.
• Decisions, decisions: read Scott Pilgrim v.5 tonight, or wait until I have time to reread v.1-4? Guess it depends on whether I can FIND v1-4
• Amusing: EVS links US political shifts to whether Werewolves & Zombies or Vampires & Aliens are popular
• Flash:Rebirth Preview from NYCC
• Remembering something Geoff Johns said at SDCC 2006 abt how his main regret from his time on Flash was leaving the book
• NYCC: Mark Waid is doing a 4-issue miniseries called “The Unknown” described as Doc Savage by way of David Lynch
• Newsarama & CBR are slow. Twitter’s seeing SMS delays. Coincidence? Or NYCC?
• Following DC Nation at NYCC via Twitter, CBR, and Newsarama
• Catching up on NYCC News: Wildstorm: More Astro City! More Tranquility!

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• Wow: In 6 months, Speed Force has passed K-Squared Ramblings in Technorati Authority. My other blog has been up 6 YEARS
• Diamond actually expects to ship Final Crisis #7 next week. It’ll be done in January.
• Interesting: Ethan Van Sciver did FOUR covers for Flash: Rebirth issue 1, though they’re only using two.
• According to Google, Phoenix Comicon is a shorter drive than WonderCon. Filed for future reference.
• Grumpy Old Fan predicts the dead speedster in Flash:Rebirth is a member of Blue Trinity
• Something’s missing from this press release
• Wait, people are finding this Dilbert cartoon controversial? [edit: it was the dilbertfiles.com plug]
• What I bought this week: Fallen Angel, Tangent: Superman’s Reign, Superman: Beyond. Two last issues & a next-to-last. Such is my pull list.
• Retweeting @neilhimself: New trailer for the Coraline movie
• The current Super-Friends book is the kind of series where Lex Luthor WOULD steal forty cakes.
• Weird: Visits to SF blog dropped by a factor of 10 this weekend, but my other site on the same server stayed constant.
• Reading some of the stories from Adventure Comics when Flash was a regular feature (c. 1980). Trippy stuff.

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• Wondering: When will SDCC post a date for hotel reservations? When will WonderCon post its schedule?
• Bought this week: Final Crisis, Fables.
• Ricardo Montalban AND Patrick McGoohan died? Damn.
• Flash:Rebirth is on the cover of Feb. Previews, with “Coming in April.” It just may ship on schedule.
• I now have 6 of the 8-issue Flash run in Adventure Comics. Sadly, AC462 is beyond my price range: it features the death of Earth2 Batman.
• Weird seeing all these tweets about freezing. Still in a heat wave here, though it seems to be letting up.
• Whoa… #3 hit on Google for ‘final crisis 6 review’
• Geoff Johns: Flash: Rebirth is all about speed.
• Friday night anime: Just finished watching Paprika. Trippy. Also very good. Looking up director’s other films. (No, haven’t seen BSG yet.)
• Finally watched Batman:Gotham Knight. Much better than Superman:Doomsday. Also watched BSG, with its WTF.

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Comics

• 2 weeks until DC’s solicitations for April, and we get to see whether Flash:Rebirth will launch on schedule.
• Interesting take: Jay Faerber on how the Image Universe works (CBR Forums).
  

  The way I approach it is that each book in the Image “universe” takes priority over the universe as a whole. At Marvel and DC, it’s the opposite. The writers of Batman can’t establish that Barack Obama is the President while the writers of Superman are establishing that Lex Luthor is President. The universe has to be consistent.

  Whereas at Image, we’re not bound by that sort of thing. I know that in Savage Dragon, Barack Obama is President. In Noble Causes, we’re going to see in issue #40 that someone else is President.

  I know it can be frustrating to people who like the whole “shared universe” approach to comics, but speaking as a creator, this is the way to go. We get all the benefits of a shared universe (I can have Invincible or Savage Dragon drop by, as long as Robert and Erik say it’s okay), but I’m not bound by what they do.

• Wow…Final Crisis #6 is actually on Diamond’s shipping list for next week.
• Seeing a surge in traffic on last year’s post on getting a hotel at Comic-Con. Prob. because they haven’t announced when hotel reg opens.
• Wow. someone actually selected the “Dread” option in the Facebook poll for Flash:Rebirth.
• Whoa! Review of Flash 247 has surged ahead and become the first post to break 1000 views according to WP Stats

Twitter Movies

A meme running around to retitle movies with a Twitter theme, tagged #movietwitter.

• I don’t think anyone’s done this one: Mariah Carey in Twitter.
• Or maybe Tweet Home Alabama
• Or even La Dolce Tweeta?

Tacky Movies

• Wondering if I should dig up Super Friends on Netflix or if it would be too painful.
• Finally watching Superman: Doomsday.
• Wasn’t tacky enough, so I’m watching Ice Pirates. You find the weirdest things on Netflix instant.
• Oh, wow… this is REALLY tacky. Sad thing is, the broken robot jokes look like they got recycled in Attack of the Clones.

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