His parents thinks he got a tattoo and going to remove later with laser surgery.
Brenda goes into the restroom to defuse Jaime's situation. She then proceed to ask if he heard about what happen to Paco the other night. Jaime worried about his best friend goes out to look for him.
well i am a gay man... so hot is... relative... but i don't think she is not hot... she just has angry face... angry face on even the hottest mom is scary as all hell...
hmmm i don't know i like it.. obviously not stabbing Paco.... But i don't know... i don;t know... i don't think he killed him.
i think its too early to call anything... its not me being optimistic... something just feels... i don't know,... maybe it's my writer's instincts... but there is something more to all this...
hmmmmm perhaps this is the writer in me (his name is Guapo:) but i don't know... i don't think he will actually kill off Paco... or anyone else.. he is trying to play up the "Killing machine" angle of the beetle. he is also playing up the horror/terror angle of a kid suddenly getting bonded to killing machine... i loved the original blue beetle... but i also think (and i think this is what htey think) is that Jaime had it too easy controlling the beetle...
Yet Jaime has shown a great deal of resistance to the beetle's influence... i have a feeling the beetle will be the key to saving Paco....
It's pretty good as what it is, but I can't help but think the proposal for this boiled down to " You know everything we could've done with the character the first time around, but instead chose to do something a little more refreshing and new? How 'bout we do all that now, and eat the cake? "
well i like the MOre spanish... i also kinda agree that he had too easy a time controlling hte beetle.... i also think they like trying to freak us out... again i dont know why... but i feel this is a big miss lead....
Just when I was gonna write.. "Finally! They're finally catching up with Jaime's groove from his past book! Hoor..." THEN I had to see that page... PACO!!! NOOOOOoooo!!!
they're putting their heroes in the most cliched situations imaginable in this reboot.
I'm giving this a shot because I figure in the first series Jaime's family probably was disappointed in him for the first year(he was just absent for it because of OYL) and if Alberto is a former soldier in this at the very least he didn't spend his time fighting aliens
I wasn't a big fan of the original series (the pacing was all over the place). And honestly, I kinda like that they're focusing more on the fact that Jamie can't control this frigging thing. It makes it more interesting in the fact that Jamie has been consistent (far as I know) as a character, where he even WANTS to tell his family, but the scarab won't let him!
I am glad he wants to tell his family but the Scarab refusing to let him creates a problem for me. In the first issue an alien with a scarab is shown just anhilating a planet, which screws up the whole infiltrator thing IMO but that's another subject, and we're shown he doesn't even remember who he was before the scarab took him.
If the Scarab is designed for total takeover that way why does it even have programming for what to do in this situation, which the second or third issue told us had never happened before.
Also, I'm curious what you meant about the pacing of the first series
Well, I guess I'm happy that they gave him his own comic. I just wish I LIKED it. Mind you, given the fact that the first issue sold 40K, the second 35K and the third issue sold 24K....well, this isn't going to last long.
You know, the reason I liked the previous Blue Beetle comic was because it DIDN'T have this grimdark angsty nonsense in it. It was lighthearted, optimistic fun, and that made it a beautiful oddity in the sea of GRR ARGH BLARGLE GRIMDARK stuff lining the shelves.
I'm gonna keep buying the book. I highly doubt Paco would be killed off like this for one thing. Plus I do still want to show DC that I want a Blue Beetle book. Hopefully the funny and happy tone returns soon.
The part I hated most about this issue wasn't even the stabbing, it's the part where Jaime tells the scarab to go all out on the bad guys. Because... no. That's not Jaime.
Hello, I am guessing you are still collecting Blue Beetle. Any chance of you posting the page(s) in #5 with the Reach in outer space? (I follow GL: New Guardians and that is supposed to lead into a future issue).
A scan of the beetle in the hospital I keep hearing about might be cool too.
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Date: 2011-12-22 04:05 am (UTC)Also, boo on the whole dad stabbing thing.
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Date: 2011-12-22 04:34 am (UTC)I called it. I frakin' called it. They just don't know what made it work. What the core themes of the original were.
And now, it's just a Not Good Guyver Ripoff.
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Date: 2011-12-22 04:40 am (UTC)i think its too early to call anything... its not me being optimistic... something just feels... i don't know,... maybe it's my writer's instincts... but there is something more to all this...
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Date: 2011-12-22 04:45 am (UTC)Yet Jaime has shown a great deal of resistance to the beetle's influence... i have a feeling the beetle will be the key to saving Paco....
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Date: 2011-12-22 05:44 am (UTC)This better be a fakeout. X(
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Date: 2011-12-22 09:55 am (UTC)This new series (or rather, this whole DCnU) ain't got a thing on his former self!
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Date: 2011-12-22 09:54 am (UTC)Just when I was gonna write..
"Finally! They're finally catching up with Jaime's groove from his past book! Hoor..." THEN I had to see that page... PACO!!! NOOOOOoooo!!!
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Date: 2011-12-22 12:14 pm (UTC)I'm giving this a shot because I figure in the first series Jaime's family probably was disappointed in him for the first year(he was just absent for it because of OYL) and if Alberto is a former soldier in this at the very least he didn't spend his time fighting aliens
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Date: 2011-12-22 10:22 pm (UTC)If the Scarab is designed for total takeover that way why does it even have programming for what to do in this situation, which the second or third issue told us had never happened before.
Also, I'm curious what you meant about the pacing of the first series
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Date: 2011-12-22 01:45 pm (UTC)I don't think they even know what made Jaime a fan/cult favorite to begin with . . .
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Date: 2011-12-22 02:47 pm (UTC)So, GIP.
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Date: 2011-12-22 06:55 pm (UTC)You know, the reason I liked the previous Blue Beetle comic was because it DIDN'T have this grimdark angsty nonsense in it. It was lighthearted, optimistic fun, and that made it a beautiful oddity in the sea of GRR ARGH BLARGLE GRIMDARK stuff lining the shelves.
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Date: 2012-01-19 07:27 pm (UTC)A scan of the beetle in the hospital I keep hearing about might be cool too.
Thanks!