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Jan 02, 2018 | ISBN 9781401275075 Buy
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Jan 02, 2018 | ISBN 9781401275075
Jaime Reyes is more than your average high schooler. When he’s not awkwardly talking to girls and taking tests, he happens to be a superhero. With the powers granted to him by his bond with the mysterious Scarab, Jaime takes on evil as the legendary crime-fighter known as Blue Beetle! But that all changes when an ancient evil has come to Jaime’s home city of El Paso to take possession of the Scarab…and use it to turn the world into a deadly hellscape! Now, without his powers, Jaime has to leave saving the world up to his more powerful friends, like Doctor Fate, OMAC and even his mentor, Ted Kord. Will Jaime be able to step up and become the hero he’s meant to be, even without his powers? Find out in the next chapter the DC Rebirth series BLUE BEETLE VOL. 2: HARD CHOICES. Classic comics writing team Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis (JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, SCOOBY APOCALYPSE) and artist Scott Kolins (THE FLASH) continue the Rebirth of Blue Beetle! Collects BLUE BEETLE #6-12.
Keith Giffen has provided plotting, scripting, artwork, or any combination thereof for titles such as All-Star Comics, Legion Of Super-Heroes, Ragman, Creeper, Lobo, Suicide Squad, The Defenders, Hero Squared!, and Ambush Bug. He’s worked on the weekly series 52 and… More about Keith Giffen
“…there’s something fresh and exciting about the idea of a book that pairs Ted and Jaime in a mentor/pupil relationship. The result is a book that entertains as both a teen superhero drama and an exploration of the mystical nature of the Scarab.”–IGN“Giffen and Fajardo work together to remix the idea of a teen hero in the 2010s very well.”–NEWSARAMA“You can’t keep insects out of your house forever, and you can’t keep a good hero down. BLUE BEETLE covers both of those bases.”–COMIC BOOK RESOURCES
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