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Wally West Costume Comparison (spoilers)
Here’s your chance to do a side-by-side (well, vertical-by-vertical) comparison of Barry Allen’s and Wally West’s Flash costumes — including several variations. Spoilers for Flash: Rebirth #5. Okay, let’s start with th...
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...
Review: Brave and the Bold #28 (Blackhawk and the Flash)
Brave and the Bold #28, “Firing Line,” by J. Michael Straczynski and Jesus Saiz occupies an unusual niche for the Flash. While Barry Allen has been back for a year and a half, this marks his first real solo adventure in an ordinary comic...
Speed Reading: Joan, Posters, Kerschl Tour & More
Some linkblogging for the week… Flashy What Were They Thinking?! approves of Joan Garrick, even in her original Golden Age appearances. High Five! Comics looks at Flash #206: 24 Hours of Immortality and Nurse Barry. The Idol-Head of Diabolu has...
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...
Dead Flash Covers
Looking back at the cover for Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13, it wasn’t promising for Bart Allen, especially with the Flashes’ history of death. We know now that it ended badly for him (though he got better). Of course, there’s ...
All Flash: Barry & Wally to Share the Spotlight? UPDATED
And one more item to round out the afternoon of catching up. I’d prefer something a little more solid, but this is clearly going to get people talking whether I post it or not, so here goes…. Update (Sep 13): Geoff Johns has confirmed o...
Cosplay Photos: Flashes & Rogues at Dragon*Con
Just from what I’ve seen on Flickr, there were a ton of Flash-related costumes at Dragon*Con this year. Looking through these photos, be sure to notice: The Flash’s secret revealed: Red Bull! The Grail Knight (Indiana ...
Super-Hero Weddings
Originally posted way back in 2003, long before the infamous Green Arrow/Black Canary wedding! Over the past few weeks I’ve been going through the Silver Age Flash series, cataloging character appearances. I’m almost done – only 25...
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...
Classic Flash: Cool Moments, Lame Bits, and…Octopus Fighting?
Some more linkblogging… CSBG’s Cool Comic Book Moments #245 features the death of Barry Allen from Crisis on Infinite Earths. Crimson Lightning finishes up the Super-Powers retrospective with the original mini-comic that came with the act...
Full Review: Flash: Rebirth #4 — “Flash Facts”
Well, I said I wanted this issue to knock my socks off, and Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver certainly delivered! After three issues of setup, Flash: Rebirth #4 kicks the story into high gear. Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash, stands revealed as...
Speed Reading: Archenemies, SBP, CFJ, Smallville, Art, and More
Some weekend linkblogging. Commentary The Speedster Site Forum wants to know: Who do you consider the Flash’s archenemy? The Weekly Crisis posts thoughts on comics for November. Regarding Superboy Prime’s upcoming appearance in Adventure ...
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...
Speed Reading
A whole bunch of linkblogging for the week! Reviews and Commentary The Comic Treadmill is doing summer reruns with a look back at Flash v.2 #206-219 from 2005. Blog@Newsarama looks at a panel from Blackest Night #1 and concludes that Barry died somet...
Hal & Barry as Butch & Sundance
Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers has an interview with Geoff Johns on…Everything related to Blackest Night. At one point he talks about writing Barry Allen and Hal Jordan. The biggest surprise is how easy it is to write when Hal and Barry are to...
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...
Speed Reading: Panels, Moments and Flash Facts
Some Monday morning linkblogging… Images Mark Waid reminds us all that Barry Allen discovered Earth-2 on June 14, 1961. Groovy Superhero has a scan from Futurama Comics #34, in which Fry gets a job at Speed Force Burgers. It’s very fast f...
Flash: Rebirth #6 Solicited!
Newsarama has a preview of DC’s September solicitations, including the conclusion to The Flash: Rebirth! The Flash: Rebirth #6 Written by Geoff Johns Art and covers by Ethan Van Sciver In a battle along the outskirts of time, the secrets of the...
Full Review: Flash: Rebirth #3 — “Rearview Mirrors”
Well, the good news is that this issue does read better the second time through. I’ve re-read Flash: Rebirth #1 and #2, then read #3 again. Oddly enough, I liked the first two issues better the first time through than the second, and like this...
