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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Twittering Long Beach Comic-Con 2009
First view of the Long Beach convention center. I haven’t been here in ages. # Last time I was here, I don’t think there was a mall across the street! # Realized I’ve walked by the gold Boba Fett 4 or 5 times w/o stopping to tak...
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. #...
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?” ...
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...
Rebirth #4: View from the Twitter Gallery
It’s not just bloggers who’ve been reviewing The Flash: Rebirth. People on Twitter have been chiming in with their opinions, 140 characters at a time. Comments have been overwhelmingly positive, though of course not everyone likes what t...
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...
New Speedster Names (Humor)
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 fo...
Failed Event Comics
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...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-08-23
Some highlights from this week’s Twitter activity. Interesting. DC is doing second printings of Wednesday Comics #1 and 2 next week. # Kaja and Phil Foglio’s acceptance speech for Girl Genius’ Hugo award…in comic-book form! #...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-08-16
Awesome write-up! RT @TheNerdyBird: Red Lantern Nerdy Bird + Dex-Starr the Rage Kitty costume breakdown! # Cool! Girl Genius and The Graveyard Book won Hugo Awards! Congrats to Phil & Kaja Foglio and Neil Gaiman! # Wait…someone turned Catc...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-08-09
Conventions: CCI, Chicago Comic-Con, etc. Milo Ventimiglia and the Unfortunate Hand Gesture #sdcc # Someone had way too much fun writing these “So-And-So Verbs at Chicago Comic-Con” headlines. # Possible to cosplay Heroes characters &...
Quick Thoughts: Weekly Twitter for 2009-08-02
Hmm, looks like it’s just “The Last Airbender.” Should clear up some confusion with James Cameron’s “Avatar” # Still amused that Star Wars comics have turned the ROTJ production codename “Blue Harvest” ...
Sunday at Comic-Con (in Tweets)
Retweeting @GreatWhiteSnark: RT @slashfilm: A real life light cycle in Flynn’s Arcade. # RT @SpeedsterSite: OH NO! The Flash: Rebirth #4 pushed back again! Set to release August 26th. # Retweeting @SpeedsterSite: RT: @CBR CCI: Geoff Johns on &#...
Saturday at Comic-Con (in Tweets)
All right! Friday’s photos actually uploaded overnight! # Just walked up to Mark Waid for autograph at Boom booth, no line. How times change. # Had no idea Leonard Nimoy & Brent Spiner were going to be here. # Took a trip thru Artists alle...
DC Universe at Comic-Con: Big Flash News UPDATED
AARGH! Liveblogging failed. Lots on Twitter. BIG news: Geoff Johns on Flash ongoing after Blackest Night: Flash, Sterling Gates on Kid Flash ongoing. Update: Now that the day’s tweets have been imported, here’s my full running commentary...
Friday at Comic-Con (in Tweets)
Around the Con Apparently the secret to uploading photos in this hotel is to wait until 6am when there’s no competition. http://flickr.com/photos/kelsonv # The fastest man alive…stuck in traffic. # Saw Michael Jackson. # Lots of *ahem* F...
DC Nation at Comic-Con
3:06:09 PM: Posing for photo w/ Liberty Belle&Stargirl. Dan Didio walks up: “I hate to do this to the Flash, but I need the ladies.” 3:10:21 PM: Huge applause for Geoff Johns 3:11:21 PM: Plush Dex-star red kitty of rage 3:13:05 PM: Fu...
Comic-Con Thursday Tweets
Harvey Dent would love Cafe 222 on 2nd. # Anyone need a new front door? # In line for Bryan Lee O’Malley. #sdcc not horrendously crowded…yet. # Scary costume #843: bearded guy in diaper, leather vest & fur hat. Hazards of SDCC # Took ...
Geoff Johns Spotlight at Comic-Con
2:21:11 PM: Geoff Johns & Scott Kolins are doing Blackest Night: Flash! 2:30:02 PM: “Black Lantern Billy Mays here.” 2:31:53 PM: Barry’s back for good. BN: Flash stars Barry, Wally & lots of dead Rogues. BN takes place aft...
Tweets from Preview Night
RT @Robot6: SDCC ‘09 | Mark Waid takes a turn as radio DJ on KCRW # In San Diego, checked into hotel. Free wifi = yay! # Hotel room has great view of…the roof. Whee. # Serious fans! RT @Robot6: SDCC ‘09 | Behold the power ...
