About Heroes

This Review was submitted by Knightwingbk:
Writers: Keith Giffen & John Rogers
Artist: Duncan Rouleau

This issue was an enjoyable issue. Not a lot of action happened, but a lot happened to advance Jaime's journey to becoming the next Blue Beetle. We get the beginnings of Peacemaker's origin and some new characters introduced. The strength of this issue comes from the interactions between all of the characters. The way Jaime's family interacts with his friends and each other feel real, and that is the strength of this comic. Jaime is bringing back all of Dan Garrett's files and notes and organizing them. His friend Paco, meanwhile, starts a virtual Beetle-cave. We find two more techno-nerds and they set up a system to monitor crime and natural disasters in El Paso. My favorite part of this book was Jaime asking his parents for permission to go super-heroing.

MOM: No Fighting. No Monsters.

JAIME: Nope.

MOM: Homework Done?

JAIME: Yes Ma'am.

DAD: Go. Be careful and let's say when it’s a natural disaster, not school hours, you can just go.

MOM: But if you're going to be late, call.

JAIME: Okay, Mom.

MOM: And no fighting monsters unless they start it!

JAIME: Okay, mom!

Great stuff. Duncan Rouleau's art is good, he's done an issue before, and so he's not totally new to people reading this book. Anyway, it looks like Cully Hamner is not going to be the regular artist on this book, so I will stop wishing for it and welcome whatever artist I get on here. C+/B-