Just realized the “busy” animation in the ada (desktop Twitter client) titlebar is actually a miniature game of Pong.
Watch This Spam
Spam subject: “With our watches precious minutes will go slower.”
So it’s a selling point that they don’t keep time correctly?
Magenta Sunset
Watched the sun set, its disc tinged almost magenta by the smoke plume from the Morris fire near Azusa stretching along the horizon.
Bringing Back the 80s: Super Powers 25th
In 1984, Kenner launched a line of DC super-hero action figures under the name Super Powers. The toys were tied to the Super Friends cartoon, and each had an action: If you squeezed Superman’s legs, he would throw a punch. If you squeezed the Flash’s arms, he would run. Each figure also came with a 16-page minicomic starring the character and others from the toy line.
Today, Crisis on Earth-Blog unites fourteen sites in celebrating this landmark toy line.
- Aquaman Shrine dives with the King of the Seas.
- Bat-Blog covers Batman and his villains.
- Being Carter Hall handles Hawkman.
- Speed Force runs along with the Flash.
- Crimson Lightning is going all-out with a Flash extravaganza.
- Dispatches from the Arrow Cave aims at Green Arrow
- Love Dat Joker brings in the laughs with the Clown Prince of Crime
- Justice League Detroit follows a set of knock-off figures from the era.
- The Idol-Head of Diabolu has only begun to cover Martian Manhunter
- …nurgh… reviews the entire series of mini-comics
- Doom Patrol Blog takes a spin with Red Tornado
- Fortress of Baileytude – Superman
- Firestorm Fan follows the Nuclear Man.
- Once Upon A Geek covers Dr. Fate and the unproduced Blue Devil & Shockwave figures
- Update: Legion Omnicom has joined the event in with a page on Tyr.
Enjoy!
Hero, Headlines & Spam
- Just learned “Holding Out for a Hero” is cowritten by Jim Steinman. Explains why it keeps turning into “Good Girls Go to Heaven” in my head
- Writing for Twitter
- Spam vs SPAM. I suspect it’s way too late to close the barn door on this one. Kinda like “hacker.”
Immortality
Hah! “the only advantage of living forever is having the time to read all of TV Tropes.”
Comic-Con 2009 Complete Index
Here’s a quick index to all of our posts about last month’s Comic-Con International in San Diego: here, at Speed Force, and on Flickr.
Around the Con
- Photo set on Flickr
- Friday Night: Running Through Downtown San Diego
- Flash Costume Sightings at Comic-Con
We saved most of our long-form writing for panel and costume write-ups (see below), but I made extensive use of Twitter during the convention. These are auto-generated digests of each day’s Twitter activity, presenting a view of the convention as I experienced it.
The Paper and the Flash
In Costume
On Friday we attended in costume as Yomiko Readman from Read or Die and Jay Garrick, the original Flash from the Golden Age (1940s). On Saturday Katie attended as Kate Austen from Lost.
- Making the Flash Helmet
- Making the Flash Boots and Shirt
- Costume component photos on Flickr
- Yomiko and the Flash
- Flash Costume Sightings at Comic-Con
Panels
- Thursday: Geoff Johns Spotlight (live blog)
- Thursday: Mad Science: The Science Behind Science-Fiction with reps from Fringe, Eureka! and Caprica
- Friday: Flash Forward Looks Incredible
- Friday: DC Nation (live blog)
- Saturday: DC Universe (live blog)
- Saturday: Lost Panel Made of Win
Reflections
- Tips for Comic-Con
- The Other Ten Essentials of Comic-Con
- Hotel Review: Holiday Inn On The Bay
- Why Las Vegas is a bad idea for Comic-Con
- New Heroes Speedster Trained in the Jedi Arts
- Flash News from San Diego
That covers all the major posts we’ve written from the start of the convention onward. There are a few minor bits, like the “We’re here!” post from when we arrived in San Diego, and various posts about the build-up to the con. You can find these by looking further back in the Comic-Con 2009 category here and in posts tagged CCI SDCC 2009 at Speed Force.