http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/new-52-blue-beetle/
Description: After the rather grisly death of former beloved Blue Beetle Ted Kord, DC set out to re-imagine the character as a younger, hipper, technology based superhero that gains his powers from an alien artifact known as the Scarab, and is literally being referred to as "Green Lantern meets Spider-Man." Despite the choppy and rather offensively ridiculous origin of the character and reason for being made, Jaime Reyes has actually become one of the rising superstars of the DCU, and may even be getting his own TV show! This is mostly thanks to a book that, while not a huge seller, was well beloved by critics and fans alike, and a couple of major roles as a supporting character in other books like Teen Titans, and most recently Generations Lost. A Hispanic teen from El Paso, the sentient Scarab gives Jaime an exoskeleton with the ability to morph into hundreds of different weapons and tools, and also grants him numerous support abilities such as motion detection (hello there spider-sense) and translators, and even offers him advice during fights (in a language that readers can't understand and only Jaime can hear, of course).
Creative Team: Tony Bedard is by no means a master writer, but he's managed a lot of quality work, the best of which may be the quite-good-but-cut-short-to-9-issues-even-though-ten-is-right-in-the-f***ing-name mini-series about a team of Chinese Superheroes, The Great Ten, while he's recently better known for his decent and (not deservedly) more popular run on Green Lantern Corps. He could very well bring a lot to the Blue Beetle universe but it's not a done deal.
Ig Guara has done a lot of splattered work here and there picking up the slack for artists, but he really shined on the short lived "Pet Avengers" series over at Marvel, which simply looked fantastic, and his Flashpoint one-shot Grodd of War was one of the best looking books of the event. His art has a lot of life, and honestly fits the character very well.
Accessibility: Blue Beetle is a book that's going to be redoing the character’s origin, something he desperately needed, while still keeping all the basics of the setting and supporting cast, right down to the villains. It's one of the safer books to pick up.
Recommendation: Watch for it. Bedard has weaved magic before in recent years with R.E.B.E.L.S and The Great Ten, and something tells me he may do it again. There are only 2 solo books staring teen superheroes not related to the Batman or Superman family, and between this and Static Shock, I would probably give this one the slight edge, at least potentially. But there is still a risk of Bedard falling into his semi-generic paint by the numbers plot tendencies as he sometimes does, so maybe get some opinions from people already picking it up before jumping in.
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~LtM
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