Blue Beetle #27 Review

BLUE BEETLE #27
Written by Will Pfeifer
Art by Rafael Albuquerque

Blue Beetle, post-Rogers, has remained relatively the same. It's a fun book about a regular guy with great powers. No, not Spider-Man. I said Blue Beetle.

While this issue was a fair outing for Pfeifer and a fun little done-in-one, the plot kind of goes in circles for the most part as we see repeated attempts by the demon creatures to capture or kill people that have wronged a couple of bumbling college nerds, who summoned the creatures in the first place. All this while Jaime and Traci 13 attempt to have a "normal" date, or whatever passes for normal between alien empowered and magic using heroes.

The only real complaint, outside the spinning its wheels nature of the plot, was the scarab. If you've been following along with Blue Beetle, and I know you have, you know that the scarab can speak to Jaime and we typically see his dialogue in a funky blue, rigid font. It started out almost entirely illegibal and has progressively gotten clearer to the point you can almost make out words and sentences it was saying. It was never impossible to tell what was being said, as Jaime typically narrates his answer for us to guess at the question, but this issue went and threw it all out the window.

The text has been replaced with a blue text box filled with normal times new roman or arial or whatever font comics use. The minute I saw it, I was immediately pulled out the story and could only gawk at the obsurdity of it. It's a small thing, but there was no explanation and not real justification for the change and I don't see why they didn't continue with the evolving scarab text as Jaime became more and more familiar with the scarab.

All-in-all, it was a fun issue, but I think I enjoyed the all-Spanish issue more, even with flipping back and forth. This issue had its moments, such as the discussion on Batman, but for the most part, it was an average outing and, as such, it gets a Check It rating.

Verdict - Check It

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