About Heroes

Writer: John Rogers
Artist: Rafael Albuquerque

Another enjoyable issue of Blue Beetle. Suprise Suprise. Guy Gardner comes back into Jaime's life and after a short confrontation, Guy tries to school Blue Beelte in being a hero, and how cool he is, because in Guy's mind, he's the best there is at what he does. Er, wrong company. Anyway, Jaime tells Guy about the Reach being on Earth and hiding their secret installations with phase shift similar to Brother Eye was doing. After a brief battle with the Ultra-Humanite, Guy and Jaime go back to Jaime's house for some burgers. Guy actually stops being a jerk here, and gives Jaime a book on strategy that Ted Kord gave him a long time ago. He tells Jaime that he needs to "Stop thinking like some scared kid with fancy armor, and start thinking like the Blue Beetle." This is as much passing of the torch as Jaime will get, unless he meets Booster Gold soon. Rogers writes really well, as usual. The character moments between Jaime and Guy are great, as well as Guy and Jaime's mother. Is the woman going to intimidate Batman next? She means business! Alburquerque turns in some great art as usual, and on time as well! This book continues to be a solid read each and every month that I'm running out of things to say about it. The only place it can go is down, and it's not like Flash that can only go up after it's terrible first arc. It's not the best issue of the series, that would be #7, but it's one of the stronger ones, tying up themes from the first issue. B-