lispylibrarian's review against another edition
1.0
Jaime Reyes is the Blue Beetle. Apparently a blue scarab has attached itself toJaime show Hines through the entire comic that he doesn’t want it and some rich white man names Kord wants him to use it for something we don’t learn about. Meanwhile, someone named Dr. Fate wants to take the scarab from Jaime but we don’t know from what.
Overall, this graphic novel was Lame. Reading it felt like being on the outside of an Inside joke. The constant chatter between Jaime and Kord is confusing and distracting. All of the “Posse” are annoying that they appear and announce their names rather than helping anything. I honestly didn’t like this comic at all.
Overall, this graphic novel was Lame. Reading it felt like being on the outside of an Inside joke. The constant chatter between Jaime and Kord is confusing and distracting. All of the “Posse” are annoying that they appear and announce their names rather than helping anything. I honestly didn’t like this comic at all.
stevequinn's review against another edition
1.0
Wow. Just terrible. I can't believe this is the actual Keith Giffen. It read like a computer simulation of Giffen. And the art was sketchy and confusing. I don't know if I can bring myself to read v2 when it comes out. Too bad. I enjoyed the new 52 Beetles for the most part.
rashthedoctor's review
4.0
OK This maybe a little bit biased review , since i am a huge Blue Beetle fan , i once spend 1500 rupees to buy an 8 inch Blue beetle figure and i was just 14 years old back than . it still adorns my study table along with a Goku , Ed elric and Batman action figures .
well i definitely lost my way there anyways the story seemed like it would confuse a lot of people who don't know who or What Blue beetle is or who his antagonists are , but long time readers or those who know about him via Batman brave and the bold or Young justice tv show would rejoice at the fact that for the first time ever there's a timeline with Ted Krod and Jaime Reyes both working together .
Ofcourse it brings with it some curious questions like was Krod also a Blue Beetle ? or how he's still in the same universe and not training Jaime . The whole scarab is a magical entity and not an alien one was revealed and i felt it was premature coz granted it's been well known now but many new readers mightn't
The Art was decent but not eye catching and if this was not Blue Beetle i would have rated it 3 stars as a average book but it's Blue effing Beetle so 4 stars is a must
well i definitely lost my way there anyways the story seemed like it would confuse a lot of people who don't know who or What Blue beetle is or who his antagonists are , but long time readers or those who know about him via Batman brave and the bold or Young justice tv show would rejoice at the fact that for the first time ever there's a timeline with Ted Krod and Jaime Reyes both working together .
Ofcourse it brings with it some curious questions like was Krod also a Blue Beetle ? or how he's still in the same universe and not training Jaime . The whole scarab is a magical entity and not an alien one was revealed and i felt it was premature coz granted it's been well known now but many new readers mightn't
The Art was decent but not eye catching and if this was not Blue Beetle i would have rated it 3 stars as a average book but it's Blue effing Beetle so 4 stars is a must
themtj's review
3.0
A little disorienting. I understand that the character has a long and complicated history, so I was just looking for a place to jump in. This caught me up enough to give me the gist of things, but I don't have enough to go off of. I liked it, didn't love it.
nathaniel_1206's review
3.0
This 2 stars rounded up. Listen Keith Giffen has been (and will continue to be) an outstanding writer for DC. He's even been an outstanding writer of this character, which helped me to look forward to this, but this is a horrible introduction to this character. There is two or three pages of nonsense, that if its supposed introduction to supporting characters is terrible. If it supposed to charming or funny its not. Frankly its the one of the dumber meaningless banter/argument committed to comics this year. The second half of the book is much much better, and Giffen finds his pace, and does outstanding work. But the first half could have used a serious rewrite.
old_tim's review against another edition
4.0
This is a reboot of sorts of a character with a small(ish) but vocal following. This is much more of a multicultural YA vibe than I am used to in DC Comics. There's a great creative team, and it is very much work checking out if that's your bag.
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ktothelau's review against another edition
2.0
[Read in single issues]
Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle has interested me and been on my reading list for a while. When I first discovered the character watching Batman: The Brave and the Bold, seeing Jaime as a relatable teen arguing with the sentient suit that gives him his powers, his New 52 line had already been cancelled. Then Geoff Johns wrote Rebirth and added a little scene with Jaime Reyes that I thought was very interesting.
In short, Keith Giffen doesn't deliver in this volume until issue #6, where he kind of gives a small splice of what the series could be.
Getting the obvious out of the way, the dialogue here is absolutely horrible. I tell myself it feels like a first draft, but then there are moments of repetition and sentences upon sentences of nothing going on. By then, it feels more like a very bloated outline with the characters speaking mostly hot air. The dialogue here isn't flat, it's completely empty. This, in turn, makes all the characters just a bunch of background noise, not even close to cementing themselves as prominent characters.
I know previous iterations of Blue Beetle gives Jaime Reyes internal monologues, sometimes even arguing with the scarab on his back. None of this is seen here until issue #6 for 2 panels, and it's just Jaime reminding us why he's in the spot he's currently at.
So yeah, fair warning: There's a whole lot of nothing going on in this volume. The plot is spread so thin it's hard to keep track of. If it wasn't for the last issue of this volume actually starting a plot and the art itself being serviceable, I would have given this 1 star.
I'm still reading this in issue form and am about to start #8. Hopefully this series gets better. I'd hate to see Jaime Reyes get cancelled a second time.
UPDATE: Though Keith Giffen still plots the story, issues #8 and #9 (all that are released as of writing this) have a different author that makes the story readable. It's still not great yet, but it has certainly bumped up to a 3-star read.
Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle has interested me and been on my reading list for a while. When I first discovered the character watching Batman: The Brave and the Bold, seeing Jaime as a relatable teen arguing with the sentient suit that gives him his powers, his New 52 line had already been cancelled. Then Geoff Johns wrote Rebirth and added a little scene with Jaime Reyes that I thought was very interesting.
In short, Keith Giffen doesn't deliver in this volume until issue #6, where he kind of gives a small splice of what the series could be.
Getting the obvious out of the way, the dialogue here is absolutely horrible. I tell myself it feels like a first draft, but then there are moments of repetition and sentences upon sentences of nothing going on. By then, it feels more like a very bloated outline with the characters speaking mostly hot air. The dialogue here isn't flat, it's completely empty. This, in turn, makes all the characters just a bunch of background noise, not even close to cementing themselves as prominent characters.
I know previous iterations of Blue Beetle gives Jaime Reyes internal monologues, sometimes even arguing with the scarab on his back. None of this is seen here until issue #6 for 2 panels, and it's just Jaime reminding us why he's in the spot he's currently at.
So yeah, fair warning: There's a whole lot of nothing going on in this volume. The plot is spread so thin it's hard to keep track of. If it wasn't for the last issue of this volume actually starting a plot and the art itself being serviceable, I would have given this 1 star.
I'm still reading this in issue form and am about to start #8. Hopefully this series gets better. I'd hate to see Jaime Reyes get cancelled a second time.
UPDATE: Though Keith Giffen still plots the story, issues #8 and #9 (all that are released as of writing this) have a different author that makes the story readable. It's still not great yet, but it has certainly bumped up to a 3-star read.
nathanaeljs's review against another edition
1.0
Setting aside the abysmal plotting and some of the worst dialogue I've read in comics in years, I don't see how this fits at all into pre-existing continuity. Is DC just arbitrarily declaring certain books from the New 52 didn't happen, as they seem to be indicating with this title's retconning away the New 52 Blue Beetle? They did the same thing with Wonder Woman and the Birds of Prey and it's starting to make their universe increasingly incoherent. Plus they've completely retconned every scrap of backstory on the Beetles and that goes back pre-Flashpoint. Very disappointing.
lukeisthename34's review against another edition
1.0
I am, bewildered. Did I miss a bunch of stuff that helps translate this? Character don't interact like humans, conversations seem to be missing large portions of text that make them make sense. Just an overall confusing tome.
shlowee's review against another edition
1.0
I desperately wanted to love this because Jaime Reyes is one of my absolute favourite characters. I guess I was expecting something more along the lines of fun lovable Young Justice Jaime with the biggest heart and the most wholesome personality. Instead, I got a very confusing story with dialogue panels that were hard to follow. I have no idea how people unfamiliar with the blue beetle dynamic managed to follow any of it, because it was a mess.