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Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-11-29
Awesome! Geoff Johns turned up on my “What Zoom did to Barry” thread! (Spoilers for Flash: Rebirth #5) # New rule: if your site opens a pop-up window and asks me to confirm when I try to close it, I’m not going to link to it. Here&#...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-11-22
Flash: Rebirth Now that we know for sure Flash: Rebirth will arrive Wednesday, people are searching for Flash: Rebirth #6. (Still Dec. 23.) # (Monday) The more I think about it, I’m not sure Wally’s new costume will appear tomorrow. In t...
Speed Reading: Breathing in Space, the Blur, Casting, EVS vs. Carmine Infantino & More
Comics Alliance has a couple of Flashy items: First, a page from the Shortpacked! coloring book: Batman Can Breathe In Space, But Not The Flash. Second: they look back at a pair of Baby Ruth commercials from the 1990s, featuring Hawkman and an obviou...
Rebirth Responses: Costumes and Identities
Flash: Rebirth #5 has certainly gotten people talking! I’m still building a list of reviews, but here are some sites discussing major changes in costumes and identities. Beware spoilers! High Five! Comics talks about that “new hero”...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-11-15
Even though I haven’t been bowled over by Flash: Rebirth so far, $13.59 for the hardcover is tempting. # Bought this week: Unwritten, Farscape: D’Argo’s Trial. I’m down to 7 regular books per month now, so 2-book weeks are com...
Speed Reading: Sketches, Schedules, Collections and More
Some linkblogging for the weekend… Artists and a Publisher Karl Kerschl shares a sketch of Iris West he did while in Italy. Francis Manapul shares a black and white version of his variant cover for Blackest Night: The Flash #3. Dan Didio talks ...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-11-08
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 fo...
Speed Reading: Collections, Modern Masters, Silver-Age Science and 2012
Some linkblogging for the weekend: Collected Editions has spotted info on the Wenesday Comics hardcover, Final Crisis paperback and more. Silver Age Gold points out that the science in the Flash…doesn’t always make sense. TwoMorrows is ho...
Comic-Con 4-Day Passes Sell Out!
I’m floored. Absolutely floored that 4-day passes for Comic-Con International 2010 have sold out. I mean, it’s the first week of November, and the convention isn’t until next July! Tickets with access to Wednesday’s Preview Ni...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-11-01
Does anyone use webrings anymore? I’m thinking of closing one that’ll only have 2 sites after GeoCities shuts down. # GeoCities lingered for a day, but has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible...
Speed Reading: Dezago, Manapul, Reviews and More (UPDATED)
It’s been a busy week, and while I’ve got a couple of posts I’m working on, nothing’s quite close to ready. So what to do? Of course! Some mid-week linkblogging! Interviews Here are a couple of interviews with upcoming Flash...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-10-25
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 tag...
Answering Questions from Searchers
Every once in a while I see something in the search terms that people have used to reach this site that makes me wish I could contact them and answer their questions. So I figured I’d try something new: The following are questions (or implied ...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-10-18
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...
Wednesday Comics: The Giant Coffee Table Book
All right! DC has announced that they’ll be collecting Wednesday Comics as an oversized hardcover book at 11×17″! It’s not the full size, which would be ideal, but I do think an oversized hardcover is the best way to collect it. Sh...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-10-11
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 sto...
Lost “Flash” Game Footage Surfaces
I’m not entirely sure how I missed this when it was posted in June, but check this out: According to the user who posted it on YouTube: This is early game footage from the cancelled Flash video game. When our publisher Brash folded we were abo...
TwoMorrows Companion Sale
I keep meaning to post about this and forgetting! TwoMorrows Publishing is running a 30%-off sale on their line of Companion books through October 31. Of course this includes Keith Dallas’ The Flash Companion. The book is full of interviews w...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-10-04
I should drop the countdown to the next Flash: Rebirth issue. I feel like Tim & Poppy in Act 2 of Noises Off. # Diamond says: Planetary concludes next week! # RT @weeklycrisis: If you ever rewatch Kong for whatever reason, try to imagine the T-Re...
Speed Reading: Iconic Covers, Crisis Preview, Evil, Maps & More
Comics Should Be Good wraps up the month of iconic covers with the Top 5 Most Iconic Barry Allen Covers. Ain’t It Cool News has a preview of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the next direct-to-home video DC animated film. It’s based...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-09-27
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 be...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-09-20
May skip new comics day this week, because there’s only 1 item I’m buying. OTOH, it’s Wednesday Comics. Decisions, decisions… # All the #SDCC talk today, I feel like I need to add advance planning to my Convention Tips page. #...
Speed Reading: Sales, Humor, TPBs, Movies
Rounding up a week of links: Major Spoilers has the Top 300 Comics for August 2009, and Flash: Rebirth #4 is #14. They’re also holding a costume contest. Dan Didio’s latest 20 questions explains how Geoff Johns & Francis Manapul mov...
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?” ...
Speed Reading: Sketches, EVS Interview & the Day the Flash Failed!
Some artist & Bronze Age linkblogging for the weekend… CBR interviews Ethan Van Sciver on Flash: Rebirth and Blackest Night. Chris Samnee posts a great sketch of the Flash. New Flash artist Francis Manapul has been posting more convention ...
Art from the Flash Game that Never Was
With the success of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Super Punch has a round-up of links to Roger Robinson’s art for BottleRocket’s 2007 Flash video game that never got off the ground. I really like the menu art, and the two sets of storyboards sho...
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...
Speed Reading: Artist Wishlist, Adam Brody, Rogues & Death
Some more linkblogging (almost done, honest!) Collected Editions reviews Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge. Speedster Site wants to know: What artist do you want for Flash? Also: an EVS Barry Allen sketch from Fan Expo. The Cool Kidz Table lists h...
TwoMorrows 1/2-Price Sale
Just a quick item: TwoMorrows, publishers of The Flash Companion, is offering a 50%-off sale this month on back issues of their magazines including: Back Issue! Jack Kirby Collector Draw! Alter Ego Rough Stuff! Write Now! Comic Book Artist BrickJour...
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 thr...
