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[khaosworks]

Quick non-spoiler review of Blue Beetle #24. This is one of those comics you should be really be reading because it brings both the fun and the awesome.

Jaime, trapped on an alien mothership, stripped of the scarab and his powers, shows the Reach exactly why Blue Beetles don't need no steenking powers, while on Earth his friends show the same aliens what happens when you mess with a man's family. It also helps if your girlfriend has magic powers.

Once again, writer John Rogers shows us why Jaime Reyes would make Ted Kord so, so proud. If Kyle Rayner had been written like this when he started out, I think people would have been a bit less pissed off about him.

The last two words of the issue actually made me squeal with delight. That's our Beetle - always a half step ahead, even with a gun to his head.

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[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Everyone was pretty much ready to hate Jaime when he appeared, not because Ted was respected on a Hal level, but because of the silly way he went out, heroic mode notwithstanding. And while Ted was still the bwah ha ha ha guy at that point, people had a real affection for the character. Thankfully, for the reasons you pointed out, among others, Rogers and Giffen managed to make Jaime likeable and relatable, not to mention his entire supporting cast.

I didn't really pay much attention to the title until I listened to the buzz on scans_daily, and evn then didn't pick it up until I read that amazingly written little scene where Guy hands over Ted's copy of BH Liddell Hart's Strategy to Jaime. We were told how wonderful Kyle was. With Jaime, we were shown.