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I adored the Blue Beetle and all of Giffen’s run on
JLA/JLE/JLI. I took the death of Ted Kord fairly
hard. I even read that issue a couple weeks after it
came out. No one warned me and I bawled like you
would not believe. So, when I heard that there was
going to be a new Beetle, I was intrigued. When I
heard that it would have Keith Giffen writing it, I
started to jump happily up and down.
So far, I’m not fully sure what to think of it. It
has some of Keith Giffen’s trademark smart-alecky
remarks, but it jumps around in time quite a bit and
that makes it kind of hard to follow.
Plus the art when the new Blue Beetle is fighting Guy
Gardner is a different style and kind of ugly really.
That being said it’s not so bad that it causes your
eyeballs to bleed just by looking at it.
I do like the kid that they’ve created for the new
Blue Beetle. For one it’s a nice thing to see a
Hispanic superhero. And for two it’s nice that like
Ted Kord he appears to be pretty smart. His family is
also completely believable.
I’m not exactly sure what’s up with the Beetle, but
I’m going to keep reading. If you like Giffen, this
so far is not as laugh out loud funny as his previous
works, but it is well worth reading and picking up.
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