Flash Facts: May 2008 Archives

TNT (Tune in TwoMorrows, not the cable station) published a very fine interview last week with Keith Dallas, author of the forthcoming The Flash Companion.  TwoMorrows has Chris Marshall (from Collected Comics Library) doing the interviews now for TNT and he pulls a lot of interesting tidbits from Dallas, who did a stunning amount of research into the history of all four Flashes.  You'll hear comments about Mark Waid, Wally West vs Barry Allen (especially relevant for Final Crisis), Bart Allen's Shortest Run of All Time, and more.

Given my name, I've naturally pre-ordered this one from Amazon.  I loved the previous books in this series from TwoMorrows, especially the Titans Companion and the Legion Companion. Nuff said.

Flash Companion Podcast Interview with Keith Dallas.

I was so bored to tears by DC Universe #0.  Sure, it has some nice art, but it's basically a big cocktease to entice you to buy a dozen other DC books coming out this summer/fall, including Final Crisis.  It's only 50 cents, but I was expecting something on the order of Countdown to Infinite Crisis.  What the heck--the Final Crisis Legion book looks superb, with a terrific 2-page spread by George Perez.  Batman RIP is previewed by Batman watching the Joker play cards and getting creeped out.  Morrison's Joker is cool.  The Green Lantern preview was pretty obtuse; I am excited but I don't get it.  The Spectre thing looks like crap.  Wonder Woman has no big reveal either.

I get to the last page and yawn...then I read this article on CBR.  Holy shit, that was in DC Universe #0 and I missed it?  Spoilers after the jump...