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BLUE BEETLE #10

Should’ve Taken That Left Turn At Albuquerque...

February 2007

Written by John Rogers and Keith Giffen

Pencils by Cully Hamner and Rafeal Albuquerque

Inks by Cully Hamner and Rafeal Albuquerque

Cover by Cully Hamner and Rafeal Albuquerque

Synopsis

At La Dama’s house, Jaime and Paco are frantically trying to determine what happened to Brenda after she had picked up a small box and disappeared in an explosion.  With the help of Paco’s computer friends, they determine Brenda activated a Mother Box and transported to another planet.  Jaime turns into the Blue Beetle, grabs the Mother Box and follows her.  When he arrives, he finds the entire planet has been set with traps.  Meanwhile, Brenda meets a race of small creatures.  They guide her to a small village where they think she is the savior, providing they drink her blood.  Before they killer her, she is saved by Lonar of New Genesis.  Brenda is weak and passes out.  At that very moment, Jaime arrives and thinks Lonar is responsible.  Jaime tells the scarab, now is the time to show what it can do....

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

“Of course she’s the holy and blessed one!  Like another giant redheaded biped is just going to drop from the sky!?”

What can I say about this issue that I probably haven’t already said for the previous nine issues?  Once more Giffen and Rogers have crafted a good story wrapped around intriguing characters, funny moments, and some decent action.  The tiny little eep, eep creatures were also fun and I liked the little spin to standard conventions when Brenda was revealed to be the “chosen one”, except she has been chosen to die!  It is nice to see Jaime getting used to the armor and to see him get the chance to really flex the scarab muscles.  Next issue should be interesting with Jaime going toe-to-toe with one of the New Gods.  Paco and the computer geeks are also coming into their own, providing enough information to be plausible (although one has to wonder how Paco knew it was a Mother Box). 

It is a little weird to see La Dama and Jaime working together, since La Dama ostensibly is a bad person.  granted they have declared a peace of some sorts, but at some point their original conflict needs to be addressed at some point.  Or maybe not.  La Dama’s original role was to be the focus of the misdirection that the scarab was magic; now that we know it is alien technology, I am not really sure how her character fits into the Blue Beetle mythology, other than being Brenda’s aunt.  Of course, the off-hand reference to Warehouse 13 and the fact that she has the ability to get off Earth suggests that there might be something more going on. 

Did you catch the Firestorm reference?

Comic Connection

Lonar first appeared in Forever People, issue #5.  As his name suggests, Lonar is pretty much of a loner and a recluse.  He does have a horse named Thunderer.

 

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