When Jaime Reyes met Oracle!

[pyrotwilight]

Two pages plus cover from Blue Beetle #4

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While googling for images of the past Beetles Jaime Reyes accidentally comes upon Oracle's all sexy all the time webcam meets Oracle.

And of course the jokes start flying rather fast.



I love how utterly confused Jaime is at first "Birds of What?"



Oddly my first thought of this scene when I first saw it was "I hope the Scarab can fix that computer" Followed by Dinah must've been really cheery to hear this alongside her morning coffee. It's also why I would've loved to see Jaime have to babysit Sin before Ollie, Ollie'd her. 

And that is how the Birds of Prey, sorta, first met Jaime. It also helped cement him as a comedy genius in my eyes...

Comments

[auggie18]

Really? I wasn't a huge fan of this scene.

[icon_uk]

I actually DO like it as it's a natural reaction. Oracle isn't well known, most people have no clue such an entity exists, why on earth SHOULD Jaime trust her, especially since she mentions the hero who had actively tried to kill him as a character reference.

We know she has the best intentions, but there's no reason Jaime should or would pay much credence to this strange voice that doesn't even have a proper face to go with it.

[mullon]

If I was him, I would think it was a trick to get me to work for the bad guys. Deploying sexy women in leather to convince me would cement that thought.

[auggie18]

I do get that it is natural reaction on all of the characters parts. I understand why Jaime is upset and why Barbara is being so professional. Something about this scene always just rubbed me the wrong way, for some reason.

Maybe it's because Jaime blew up his computer. Poor thing had no idea what was coming...

[freddylloyd]

I, too, thought the scene was good until Jaime blew up the computer. One major point of the Blue Beetle magazine is that Jaime's from a blue-collar family that's always had high expectations for his behavior. If he needs a new computer (or monitor) simply because he lost his temper, the first person he has to tell is his mother—who’s way scarier and more powerful than Oracle.

[mr_austin]

While you're right, I could honestly see Jaime reacting by punching the monitor.

He's had to deal with having his entire life's course irrevocably altered and thrown into a huge superhero fray only to be essentially abandoned and left to figure everything out on his own; now he has someone sending a recruiting pitch through his computer shortly after he's begun to realize the immense and ceaseless burden the scarab is becoming: both to his body, his family, and his own aspirations.

It might have been a stupid reaction, but when your hormones are raging and someone claiming to be a friend of the people who threw you out into space and abandoned you without a second thought (from your perspective at least) you're going to get pretty angry, especially at sixteen.

Although you are completely right that there should have been some level of fallout with Jaime's mother. Hell, even him brushing her authority off in an exceptional display of personal rage and revisiting it would have been a good way to layer and develop their normally functional relationship.

Of course, this is Blue Beetle, so at least it ended up ok.

[icon_uk]

Just the monitor I think, but it looks like it was a flatscreen, so that's still gonna leave a dent in the funds...

[bariman]

I imagine a new monitor arrived in the mail the next day with a "sorry" note from Oracle.

[pepperspray101]

aww, that would've been sweet! :)

[perletwo]

I think what's going on here with the monitor is a preview of what we see more fully in - #6? #7? The one where they all go out to the desert where he crash-landed and fought Guy in #1 and he pieces together his origin for the parents - that Jaime is sitting on some major PTSD from the roller-coaster ride of the whole Infinite Crisis thing.

[toasty_fresh]

Yeah, this.

[freezer]

Not to mention Babs' people skills are often just north of Bruce's (the real Bruce, not Rich Idiot With No Day Job Bruce).

[box_in_the_box]

Leaving aside the issue of flatscreen abuse, this is an entirely appropriate reaction on Jaime's part, because Babs' sales pitch couldn't have done a better job of pushing him away if she'd TRIED.

I'm a big fan of the scenes in which younger superheroes tell the older generations who are nosing into their business to go fuck off (see also: Arrowette in Young Justice telling off the Justice League for their hypocrisy so hard that it renders them speechless).

[icon_uk]

Followed by the even better moment just afterwards where we see Arrowette hyperventilating into a brown paper bag as she realises who she's just told off!

[perletwo]

*ahem* plz to be posting said scene? Or giving issue no so I can post?

[scottyquick]

It's by Voldy, can't post it.

[perletwo]

Phoo. How 'bout an issue number, so I can track it down just for me next time I get to the LCS?

[scottyquick]

#6, I do bleev.

[perletwo]

w00t! *scribbles info in datebook* thankee!

[box_in_the_box]

Sorry, PAD-written.

[jarodrussell]

"I hope the Scarab can fix that computer"

I'm sure his hacker pals have a spare he can use. If memory serves, they have racks of them.

Hey, where's the next scene where Dinah chastises Jaime over keeping the dangerous, alien implant and convinces him to have it removed? Oh, right, the book is cool like that. :)

[jlbarnett]

this is before he met them.

[jarodrussell]

That's what I get for starting at #24.

[scottyquick]

HWHAT?!

You missed like 95% of the Rogers run!

[jarodrussell]

I was still grieving for Ted those first two years.

[scottyquick]

Trades! Torrents! Back issues!

[jarodrussell]

Yeah, I know, but now I'm kind of happy not reading anything from DC. It's ice to be able to laugh from the sidelines now that I've divorced myself from any expectations of the universe. Older books would only get my hopes up.

[jelly_ace]

When I read this it was the first time I realized that the whole "mysterious computer entity is mysterious" act is just stupid.

And yay for Jaime!

[anoolka]

Exactly. Who would trust someone who not only isn't telling you who she/he is but knows more about you than you do about them, contacts you through your own computer, throws out some code names you've never heard of and acts all mysterious.

Babs doesn't seem very emphatic and is perhaps too much influenced by Batman and his scaring-people-is-the-way-to-go way of thinking. That's not gonna work with everyone.

[jelly_ace]

True, dat. You know your "criminals are a cowardly and suspicious lot and grimdark fear" strategy is out-of-date when a sixteen-year-old mocks it.

[celestialchild]

Buahahhahahaha!!!!! Omg this is great.

Until we get someone who can write a good good Wonder Girl, can we please make Jaime the leader of the Teen Titans? Maybe the Titans as well? PLEASE?

[fierysea]

JAIME <3! Seriously, BB is one of the two comics that got me back into comics as a whole. Man, I really need to go back and read through the whole series again.