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Keeping Comics on Schedule
By now the delays on Flash: Rebirth #4-6 have become legendary. But the book is hardly alone. Just this week, I picked up issues of Dynamo 5 and Ignition City that, despite the series starting on a monthly schedule, came out several months after...
Frustrations with DC: One Year Later
Actually it’s closer to a year and a half since I wrote about my frustrations with DC Comics, but it’s a good time to look back at them. In June 2008, I listed three main problems I had with the current state of DC: I’m tired of me...
If You Could Only Buy Three Comics…
A few weeks ago I talked about decluttering the pull list. Over the weekend, noscans_daily took things it a bit further, asking people to consider how they’d cut down to three titles. I didn’t properly do the suitcase test last time, si...
Con-flict: Big Apple vs. NYCC — FIGHT!
Comic Book Resources and The Beat both noticed something interesting in the program for this weekend’s Big Apple Comic Con: the dates for next year’s event. It’s going to be October 7-10, 2010 — the same weekend as the larger,...
Flash May Get “Secret Origin” Treatment
Buried in a Newsarama interview about Superman: Secret Origin, Geoff Johns remarked that he’d like to do more “Secret Origin” stories…with the Scarlet Speedster his first choice for number 3. My hope is to continue these, most...
Decluttering the Pull List
The Weekly Crisis writes about taking the suitcase test (figuring out what you really need to buy or keep based on what you’d put in a suitcase for a long trip) and applying it to comic books. It’s an interesting way to look at a hobby do...
Can the Flash Survive Another 6-Part Epic Relaunch?
The writers and artists have changed. The face under the Flash’s mask has changed. But there’s one thing that the three Flash relaunches we’ve seen since Infinite Crisis all share: pacing. For some reason, every time DC has relaunc...
Wizard World on the Way Out?
Chicago Comic-Con is running this weekend. Yes, Chicago Comic-Con, not Wizard World Chicago as it’s been called for most of this decade. And that name change brings up all kinds of questions. Back in 1997, Wizard bought the Chicago Comic-Con, a...
Thoughts on the Anaheim Comic-Con Announcement
Ever since Wizard canceled Wizard World Los Angeles back in January, just two months before the event, they’ve claimed that the show was not actually canceled, but merely “postponed” (as opposed to WWTX, which was canceled outright)...
On the Hunt: Finding Back Issues, Then and Now
How I searched for back issues of comics in… 1989: Look at the local comic store. Wait for a convention that my parents were going to. 1999: Look at the local comic store. Drive around to other stores. Save up for San Diego Comic-Con. Look o...
Speed Reading: What If? Cool Moments, and Death
More linkblogging! This rounds out a week’s worth of Flash-related pages I’ve stumbled across. Kid Flash has a cameo up in this Adventure Comics #1 preview over at The Source. Robot 6’s Grumpy Old Fan considers several major creativ...
How Soon is Too Soon to Judge a Serialized Story?
Following up on my Lightning in a Bottle/Flash: Rebirth comparison, one of the issues I found myself flip-flopping on was how early you could fairly judge an incomplete story. In addition to my frustrations with Flash: Rebirth, I’ve picked up ...
Catching Lightning in a Bottle…Again
In recent weeks I’ve come to realize that I’m voicing some of the same complaints about Flash: Rebirth that I saw other people voice about Lightning in a Bottle, the story arc which attempted to launch Bart Allen as the Flash after Infini...
