Honestly, I wasn’t too fond of this week’s comic book releases. Also, my weekend was a drunken haze and I don’t have time to review anything else, so I’m going for what I consider this week’s best comic: Flash Rebirth #5.

Who else agrees with me that the first three issues of Flash Rebirth was a mess? Barry was whining like crazy (I seriously wonder why Hal didn’t knock some sense into Barry), speedsters were dying in an attempt to create tension, and the death of Barry’s mom was shoehorned into the storyline while it made no sense at all.

This issue finally comes along and explans why Barry’s angsting all this time, and why his mom’s dead when it was established in previous continuity that his parents were alive to see Wally take up the mantle. Yeah the Reverse Flash was responsible for every bad shit that happened in Barry’s life. Heck, he even broke Barry’s arm in 6th grade. I mean, wtf, you have the power to go back in time and you push a kid down a flight of stairs? That motherfucker.

But the thing that I really loved about Rebirth #5 is that the Flash family’s finally the spotlight. And new costumes.

I have so much love for Wally’s costume. Liberty Belle’s new threads, on the other hand, is WTF. Irey as Impulse was predictable, but I loved it. Although I don’t think she’ll be just like Bart.

Now I think that there are way too many speedsters running around now. We currently have three Flashes. I seriously don’t know how they maintain that without sidelining Wally (kind of what they did to Kyle – who’s now DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD).

Overall, a satisfactory issue, but not as awesome as Green Lantern Rebirth. The bar was just set too high.

Ade Magnaye

Ade is the hero Comicgasm deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

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