How about that? Reviews on a Thursday? How can it be? I was up in New Jersey this week, so I suspended my Midtown Comics subscription, opting instead to stop by my local comic shop and say hello. It also meant that I actually received my comics on a Wednesday instead of the Saturday delivery that I've been getting with Midtown. I definitely miss grabbing issues fresh off the rack.

• Adventure Comics #4: This was a great issue - a fourth wall issue if there ever was one. Not as subtle as Grant Morrison would have done it, but it fits the tone of Superboy-Prime's imprisonment. It was heavily enjoyable, and actually made me feel sorry for Superboy-Prime.

• The Flash: Rebirth #5: I'm not sure where Geoff Johns is going with this. For a book filled with the fastest people alive it sure is going nowhere slow. Five issues of fast people running around not really resolving much isn't really my ideal way of telling a rebirth story. This series definitely hasn't been up to par with the Green Lantern rebirth story that Johns told previously.

  Also, having the Reverse-Flash responsible for everything bad in Barry Allen's life (through time travel) is a little played and short-sighted. Didn't we already hear of something similar with the Time Trapper, Superboy-Prime and the Legion of 3 Worlds mini-series? Didn't Johns write about the Time Trapper always trying to change the past to mess with Superman? And seriously "I'm the one who pushed you down the stairs when you were a toddler!" Wha...? Childish much?

• Supergirl #47: This is what I'm talking about. Supergirl shines when Sterling Gates can write his own story and not have to worry about crossing over to other titles. This issue was fantastic, and although it has the played storyline of Reactron in it, Gates offers new depth to Alura that no other writer has given.

• Dark Avengers #11: Does this pretty much rule out the Molecule Man as Norman Osborn's hidden ace? I thought Bendis did a nice job of handling a character who is basically omnipotent. In fact, I thought he wrote every character pretty well in this issue, and even gave us a glimpse at the past of Victoria Hand.

  Osborn standing up to the Molecule Man was pretty ballsy too.

• Mighty Avengers #31: I'm just going to keep saying it... Bendis may be the Avengers writing ace, but Dan Slott and Christos Gage have a winner here. I absolutely hate the lineup in this book. HATE it. It can't be overstated. I even hate Hank Pym as the "new" Wasp. Stature doesn't need to be on the team. The Vision should return to being the old Vision. Jocasta? Who cares? Quicksilver has always been annoying. And the U.S. Agent is just a Captain America rip-off. Hercules is tolerable, but I'm not a big fan. Despite all of this, Mighty Avengers is probably my favorite of all the Avengers titles. The story is well written - humorous when it needs to be; action filled at other times. It's been a great ride.

  This issue wraps up what was an excellent storyline involving the Unspoken. Although some of the lines were quite corny, there were some great moments in here. Hercules comparing flying a ship to a woman is classic; and Quicksilver using communism to control the primitive U.S. Agent was another great one. Even the epilogue between Quicksilver and the Inhumans was a nice twist.