Zoom! An enhanced version of the #WHPsuperpower pic I posted as @kelsonv, with added motion blur. #theflash #blur #running #speedforce
Tag: TheFlash
Demonstrating super-speed (what else?) for #WHPsuperpower
After seeing this iPad billboard out of the corner of my eye once last winter…
After seeing this iPad billboard out of the corner of my eye once last winter, every time I saw it I’d think of this Flash statue. [K] #signs #theflash #apple #ipad #billboards #jaygarrick
At last, it’s the highlights from the photo challenge!
At last, it’s the highlights from the #speedforce5th photo challenge! Thanks to everyone who participated by showing off your favorite Flash memorabilia. You have a great mix of toys, customs, comics, original art, and even fan art! Starting from upper left, we have @asowrey1158, @flash_jlanm, @i_am_flash, @royalflood, @shaerileth, @flash_jlanm again, and @bigragzz. #theflash #speedforce #dccomics
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
Speed Force is running a photo challenge for our fifth anniversary!
Speed Force is running a photo challenge for our fifth anniversary! To participate, follow @SpeedForceOrg on Instagram and post a photo of/with your favorite piece of Flash memorabilia tagged #speedforce5th. It can be a comic book, a toy, a statue, a costume, a poster, a piece of original art, a DVD, a shirt or towel, a game piece, anything. It can be official or custom-made. It can be something you own, or something you’ve seen. We’ll post the highlights next Friday. (Please post your own photos only.)
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
Chicago Rush
I remember when Geoff Johns wrote “Blitz” and “Ignition”
I remember when Geoff Johns wrote “Blitz” and “Ignition” in order to make the points that (a) heroes don’t need tragedy to make them great and (b) grim & gritty and decompression have their place, but aren’t the best fit for a character like the Flash.
Then a few years later he gave us Flash: Rebirth, Flashpoint, and the New 52.
Now that’s what I call a Flash drive!
The general public *does* think his name is Shazam.
The general public does think his name is Shazam. Just like they think the Flash’s name is Gordon.
Heck, sometimes they think the Flash’s name is Shazam.
I wish I were making this up.
You’re Goin’ Down!
You’re Goin’ Down! by tubes. on Flickr.
Adobe is killing Flash for mobile devices. Looks like Steve Jobs won.
Edited to add: Of course, the real reason you won’t see Flash on a mobile phone is that he can run across the state and tap you on the shoulder before your phone starts ringing.
Note: Follow-up to this post. TODO: add follow-up comments to original
Odd realization: A year from now, I might not be buying any DC Comics.
Odd realization: A year from now, I might not be buying any DC Comics. They’ve spent the last 5 years trying to kill my interest in The Flash, and they’re dangerously close to finishing the job. And all the other “New 52” DC books that look interesting to me (none of them in the mainstream superhero categories, mind you) are on the conventional-wisdom “won’t last six months” list.
DC only seems to have room for three main Flashes at a time
DC only seems to have room for three main Flashes at a time: Past, present and future. Sometimes that shakes out as Jay, Barry and Wally, sometimes as Jay, Wally and Bart, and most recently as Jay, Barry and Bart. They’ve got four major Flash characters to work from, and they want Barry in the “present” role…and now that they have a chance to rewrite history, they can get rid of the “extra” character.
That suggests two likely possibilities:
1. They erase Barry Allen’s grandson and reset his nephew to being Kid Flash.
2. They erase Barry Allen’s nephew and keep his grandson as Kid Flash.
I’m tired of reading stories *about* continuity
I’m tired of reading stories *about* continuity, instead of stories that, over time, *become* continuity.
We’ve basically gotten ONE Flash story that’s *just a Flash story* out of each run since 2005
I feel like I’m Charlie Brown, DC is Lucy, and the promise of a Flash series that actually gets off the ground and *goes* somewhere is the football.
We’ve basically gotten ONE Flash story that’s *just a Flash story* out of each run since 2005. Everything else has either been setup, wrap-up, or a side story for an outside event.
That two-parter with Bart vs. Mota. Tom Peyer’s “Fast Money.” Maybe Geoff Johns’ “The Dastardly Death of the Rogues.”
Long-form writing only works if you follow through on it. I love reading novels, but I’d much rather read 20 short stories than 10 first chapters and 10 last chapters.
My dream Flash writing team
My dream Flash writing team is Grant Morrison writing Barry, Mark Waid writing Wally, and Geoff Johns writing the Rogues.
So yes, a legacy character *can* be done in a movie.
Easier, yes…but not necessary. Anyone remember a Zorro film from about 10 years back with Anthony Hopkins as retired Zorro and Antonio Banderas as new Zorro? It did well enough they made a sequel.
Other characters have legacy built into the concept, like the Phantom (maybe not the best example, because the movie tanked).
Maybe a better example: a big part of the first Pirates of the Caribbean film hinged on Will Turner following through on his father’s legacy, but Bootstrap Bill didn’t appear at all until they did the sequels.
Or, heck, Harry Potter – it’s all about this boy growing up and living up to the legacy of his parents and their generation who fought in a war. Harry’s parents are absolutely critical to his story, but they’ve been dead for 10 years when the first movie gets going.
So yes, a legacy character *can* be done in a movie. It may be *easier* to tell a story about the first guy, but it’s not *necessary.*
Barry’s been back for THREE YEARS
Barry’s been back for THREE YEARS. He’s been the focus of a Rebirth miniseries, had a major part in last year’s Big Event(tm), and had his own ongoing book, plus guest spots all over the DCU.
And here we have a gigantic, sprawling Flash-centric event (the first ever, I might add) with 5 oversized issues telling the main story, plus 16 miniseries and at least 4 one-shots telling side stories.
And DC is saying that nowhere in all of that could they find room for the guy who was The Flash for more than two decades? And you’re saying this is perfectly okay?
I don’t like to use the phrase “slap in the face” — it’s really overused IMO — but I think it applies here.
Least Favorite Retcon
Barry Allen being the source of the Speed Force.
It just feels like a cheap gimmick to make him more important than all the other Flashes, not just for now (like Wally discovering new ways to use the Speed Force or Bart absorbing it), but forever. No one can ever be better than him, no one can ever surpass him, no one can really succeed him without being second-rate, because hey, being a Flash is all about Barry Allen!
It’s like two kids trying to one-up each other in a bidding war, and one pulls out, “well, I bid infinity!” When it’s a kid, you laugh at that sort of thing. When it’s the Chief Creative Officer of the company, it’s canon.