Blue Beetle #2

Sorry, I know it's been a while since I've written anything here. It's been a busy couple of weeks for me, both in terms of time and just events that have kind of shifted me around a little bit and caused me to evaluate and think about a lot of stuff.

Blue Beetle #2 is a good read much like the first issue. Bedard continues to write an exceptional origin story for Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes, and Guara's penciles continue to do justice to the character and his environment. The origin story continues here, and we're past the alter ego story establishing who Jaime Reyes and his friends are. We are now on to establishing who the Blue Beetle will be and who/what the scarab is in the context of the DCnU.
The story has Jaime all but giving up his identity from the get-go to his friends and the person who will obviously become a major enemy to the Blue Beetle within this issue. It's obvious that Jaime has no idea what he has become or what he's supposed to be doing yet. He knows he doesn't want to kill anyone, which creates an antagonistic relationship between he and the scarab from the beginning, although Jaime seems to win this battle for now. He also knows that he needs to help his friend(s) with the Blue Beetle armor while he can as he saves his friend Paco from the supervillains who are indirectly responsible for him being grafted to the beetle scarab.
In this issue, we also get more of a glimpse of just how ruthless and evil the aunt of the young lady that Jaime likes may actually be. This lady, Dama, is also the aforementioned enemy that Jaime almost spills the beans about who he is to. Thankfully, the beetle scarab has a mission parameter that requires its host not reveal who it is, so it keeps Jaime from revealing his identity to anyone for now.
I continue to be impressed with this title, and I'm thinking right now that I should have picked up the previous Blue Beetle series that was cancelled late last year/earlier this year long before the DC reboot.
Go pick up issue 1 if you can find it along with issue 2 and start reading this book. It would be a shame if the title was cancelled again as it has a lot of potential and is one of the more awesome books not about the bigger DC characters that we all know and love.

Thanks for reading.