Sure, #WHPtakebackflash is about the camera flash…but it seemed like a double meaning was appropriate.
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Week in review at our blog: Futures End reveals, Bombshell cover, upcoming comics and more.
Week in review at our blog: Futures End reveals, Bombshell cover, upcoming comics and more.
A sampling of WonderCon photos from my other camera. More at Flickr.com/KelsonV
Multi-Bats
They at least gave a reason for the placement of Coast City
They at least gave a reason for the placement of Coast City (near Edwards Air Force Base), but it makes no sense for anyone to name something in that area “Coast City.”
Placing it near Vandenberg AFB and Santa Barbara would make more sense. Or Miramar and San Diego.
I don’t mind the super-deformed shapes or even the mix of Wally’s eye lenses on Barry’s costume… But slapping a New 52 label on a series where Superman still has his red underwear, Batman has his yellow oval, Flash’s belt is straight and no one has seams, armor or collars?
I don’t mind the super-deformed shapes or even the mix of Wally’s eye lenses on Barry’s costume… But slapping a New 52 label on a series where Superman still has his red underwear, Batman has his yellow oval, Flash’s belt is straight and no one has seams, armor or collars?
Batmobile at LBCHC
Meeting Flash writers Mark Waid, Geoff Johns & @brianbooch at @longbeach_cc 2009&2012
I work near an airport. Every time I see a Wally Park shuttle, I think of this scene.
![I work near an airport. Every time I see a Wally Park shuttle, I think of this scene. [K]](https://socialposts.kvibber.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1381109404.jpg)
Flash Movie or TV Show?
I don’t know…one Flash story every three years, either ending or rebooting after three movies…vs. 20 Flash stories each year for as long as the series lasts. I like the math on the TV side.
Fear Zod!
The challenge is still open!
The #speedforce5th challenge is still open! Post your favorite flash memorabilia with that tag. As for this pic, I love the expression on the doomed construction worker that the Flashes of two worlds are racing to rescue. I couldn’t use this for the announcement, but wanted to put it somewhere.
#theflash #comics #collectibles #doomed
The last time I went to a comic con in costume, I went as Jay Garrick, the original Flash. I ran into someone else with the same idea. On a related note, I’ve brought @SpeedForceOrg to Instagram for Flashy photos. #ThrowbackThursday #theflash #cosplay #jaygarrick
The last time I went to a comic con in costume, I went as Jay Garrick, the original Flash. I ran into someone else with the same idea. On a related note, I’ve brought @SpeedForceOrg to Instagram for Flashy photos. #ThrowbackThursday #theflash #cosplay #jaygarrick
eighteenbelow:DC, I don’t know whether to laugh at you or cry.
DC, I don’t know whether to laugh at you or cry. But please get help for your ’90s addiction, because you’re only hurting yourself.
I don’t have a problem with a return to the 90s per se. I just wish they were interested in bringing back the GOOD parts of the 90s instead of the stuff I rolled my eyes at the first time around.
The New 52 reboot *was* rushed compared to COIE.
The thing is, the New 52 reboot was rushed compared to COIE.
COIE was a 12-issue event created specifically to clean house and combine what they wanted to keep into a new reality.
Flashpoint was a stand-alone “fix the broken timeline” story that grew. Somewhere along the line, DC decided to use it as the springboard to launch the New 52. They added a double-page spread with some mumbo-jumbo about merging timelines, and drew the new costumes on Batman and Barry for the last two pages. (I can’t confirm this, but given the timeline of when Johns and Kubert started Flashpoint, when the reboot got greenlit, the story of Flashpoint itself, and all the stuff Johns talked about putting into his Flash run that didn’t make it, this makes the most sense.)
In my mind, Flashpoint and the New 52 are completely separate entities.
And speaking of things that are completely separate…
“Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato are doing amazing work.”
Yes. Yes they are.
Always photograph Lady Mechanika.
I’ve never heard of a case where a physical comic store closed because of digital comics.
I’ve never heard of a case where a physical comic store closed because of digital comics. Everyone keeps predicting it based on the way things have gone with bookstores, video rental stores, and music stores, but it either isn’t happening or hasn’t happened yet (as far as I can see).
Why Wonder Woman is in the DC Trinity
Interesting historical fact: In the 1940s, DC contracted out to a second publisher, All-American comics, to produce more comics under the DC brand. The top three characters at DC proper were Superman, Batman and Robin (starring in World’s Finest). The top three at All-American were Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern (starring in Comic Cavalcade). In the middle of the decade, DC bought All-American outright.
Those six characters are still the most recognizable from DC, but… Robin is always the second half of “Batman and…” Green Lantern and the Flash disappeared for several years before being completely reinvented in the late 1950s, and have never reached the level of mainstream recognition that Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have.
That’s what I think matters here: the “trinity” are the three DC characters best known to the American public at large over the last 7 decades, not those who are most popular among today’s comic book readers: Those would be Batman, Batman, and Batman
Amtrak to SDCC
I’ve done Amtrak from LA a couple of times, and it’s a nice way to cut down on the driving stress. Driving 2.5-3 hours twice daily is grueling, especially when it overlaps with rush hour. Plus you have time to read your new comics on the way home!
But it does lock down your schedule a bit on the days you take it, and the line to get on the last northbound train of the evening is…actually not too much worse than some other comic-con lines, now that I think about it.
Background that’s important for this particular story and background that exists
I think one problem we tend to run into as fans is that we often can’t tell the difference between background that’s important for this particular story and background that exists, but maybe isn’t critical to know right now. That carries over into the writing style as fans turn pro and as writers target the fan audience.