In the midst of moving to Virginia and starting a new job, I really wasn't sure if I was going to get this review in on time... but here it is. Two highly anticipated books debuted this week: Superman: Secret Origin and Spider-Woman. More on those later. The important thing to notice in the higher ratio of $3.99 to $2.99 books that seem to be popping up. If this gets any worse - I'll be honest with you - I may become a trade-only reader.

But enough doom and gloom.

• Superman: Secret Origin #1: This anticipated mini-series was probably mostly anticipated for the re-teaming of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. Their run on Action Comics made me love Superman again. The realism they brought to Superman's humanity was spectacular. Unfortunately, this book seems too fast paced. Johns is going to try to cover a lot in this six issue mini-series, but judging by how much he tried to push in this first issue, the quantity of events might detract from the story quality. Time will tell.

• Supergirl #45: Again I must cringe. This long drawn-out story is even starting to effect the excellent writing of Sterling Gates. I feel that he's handicapped by this multi-book Supes crossover, and even the once high quality Supergirl title is starting to be dragged down. I never thought I'd actually contemplate dropping all the Supes titles until a certain story was over. Ugh...

• New Avengers #57: This used to be the one Marvel book that never disappointed. This week, it disappointed me. There was a lot of trademark Bendis dialog, but it really went nowhere. And the scene with the Hood was mostly repeated from the other issue. I liked the Hood better when he was slightly possessed by Dormmamu. His character has been changing too rapidly.

• Spider-Woman #1: I've been waiting on this title since Spider-Woman first joined the Avengers. There's been a lot of hype surrounding Bendis' love for the character. After this first issue, I'm not impressed. I honestly thought I was reading an issue of Alias, only the lead character was swapped. Brandon Whaley commented to me on Twitter saying that he kept expecting the Purple Man to show up, so I know I'm not alone. To top it off, the dialog wasn't even consistent, often breaking apart in places.

• Nova #29: This book has actually gotten away from what made me like it so much in the beginning, but it's still been a rather enjoyable middle-of-the-pack book. This issue had an almost pure space pirate feel to it. I'm disappointed to see them work the Ego angle again so soon, but bringing on the Mindless Ones at the end was a nice cliffhanger.

• Guardians of the Galaxy #18: This issue was absolutely horrible: the story and the art. This book is one more bad issue away from being dropped.

On a side note, comic reviews might be late next week, as I should be moving permanently Thursday.