Blue Beetle Appreciation 2020!!!

[El_Gato]

DEBUT: August 1939
FIRST APPEARANCE: Mystery Men Comics #1
CREATOR: Charles Nicholas
ON-GOING SERIES: 73 issues
Blue Beetle Vol 1 #1-42 & #44-60
Blue Beetle Vol 2 #18-21
Blue Beetle Vol 3 #1-5
Blue Beetle Vol 4 #50-54



DEBUT: November 1966
FIRST APPEARANCE: Captain Atom #83
CREATOR: Steve Ditko
ON-GOING SERIES: 29 issues
Blue Beetle Vol 5 #1-5
Blue Beetle Vol 6 #1-24



DEBUT: February 2006
FIRST APPEARANCE: Infinite Crisis #3
CREATOR: Keith Giffen; John Rogers; Cully Hammer
ON-GOING SERIES: 72 issues
Blue Beetle Vol 7 #1-36
Blue Beetle Vol 8 #0-16
Blue Beetle Vol 9 Rebirth-18

ORIGINAL THREAD
2019 THREAD


It’s that time of the year again! Show some appreciation for one of DC’s oldest, most unique and quite frankly coolest legacy characters! To be fair though all 3 are so unique from each other that some might not even consider then legacies lol

[El_Gato]

Current happenings:

https://www.cbr.com/blue-beetle-seri...t-hbo-max/amp/
A Blue Beetle HBO Max series rumored to be in development. Centered around Jaime Reyes. Rumors of Ted Kord as a mentor and it having a 150M budget.

Blue Beetle (Ted) just appeared in a dark multiverse event. Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) is currently evil and a member of The Batman Who Laughs Secret Six.

[sifighter]

I really like Jaime, I hope he gets to do more after he’s done with Hell Arisen in the 5G relaunch of books. I also hope we get do get to see a show, I liked how Jaime and Ted worked together in the rebirth run and would love to see a show based off that.

[Adekis]

I love Jaime, I just kind of... wish he wasn't a legacy character, a little? It's kind of like having two Flashes or two Superboys or two Robins running around at the same time. It was fine at first when one was dead or out of the picture, but then they started to co-exist, and it gets a little tragic, because the brand really doesn't have room for all that, so one is the primary version and one is shunted to the side. Tim Drake, Conner Kent, Wally West, Connor Hawke... all are good characters sent aside by other good characters with the same code-name.

But Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes might be the saddest divide to me, because frankly, I love them both to death, and they both give me something the other one can't give me. Wally and Barry aren't the same, but they're both the Flash, and there's I think a kind of limit on how different the Flash can be from the Flash. Connor Hawke might be less quick to use the Boxing Glove Arrow than his dead old Dad, but they're still both guys who run around urban centers with a bow.

Ted is like an older Spider-Man who found professional success as a super-scientist, or a higher-tech Batman with a more pronounced sense of humor. Jaime has all kinds of aliens and things running around, and it's not really comparable to the more traditional super-hero fare of Ted's adventures in the first place. They're both characters of their contemporary moments. Hard to imagine Ted involved in a multi-issue arc of an alien invasion.

I like the idea of Ted teaching Jaime to be the third Blue Beetle. Be cool if Tobey Maguire played Ted in a series like that, maybe got some action scenes in costume. Maybe bring in Andrew Garfield to be Vic Sage, haha! I'm all for milking the Ditko connection.

[Robotman]

It’s cool that Ted is starting to show up in the big group shots of DC heroes but it sucks that Jaime has hardly been seen. You’d think with his many mainstream appearances they could at least make him a background regular.

Still haven’t read the Dark Multiverse Ted story. Fascinated to see how he basically becomes a god.

Evil Jaime aka The Scarab is pretty creepy. Especially trying to eat his villains. He’s kind of a mix of Venom and a Xenomorph.

[liwanag]

anybody have any idea what this is about?