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I don’t know if you knew it or not, but I love the new Blue Beetle comic.

Many people love the “art” but that is not my attraction to the comic, I am more of a “story” type of guy. My attraction lies mainly with the storyline and the characterizations. Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, has one of the best written supporting cast of all comics right now. With the strenght in the writing I am sad to have read that John Rogers will be writing Blue Beetle no more.

I love Jaime; I love all the characters. It’s continually been the most fun I’ve had in my writing career. I have a real sense of ownership having spent the time to build this character up into somebody who had a story and a really great supporting cast. I want to go down the road with him, so I might kick in for a story when I can, but right now I want to really concentrate on these other projects.
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=148932

At least Mr. Rogers will be finishing writing how Jaime takes out the crazy aliens hellbent on taking over the Earth in issue #25.

It’s temporary, although I don’t know exactly when I’m coming back to the book. What happened is, essentially, Keith and I always wanted to tell the origin story and #25 wraps up that origin for Jaime.

What’s happened is that Jaime has discovered that the seemingly unrelated incidents he’s been dealing with all the way through year two actually gave him the clues to discover The Reach’s evil 100-year-long, subtle plan to take over the world. He decided to strike at them before they could use their abilities to sort of reorganize. Once they reorganize, once they’ve got that advantage, he has no chance. So he had to hit them really fast and really hard. We’ve seen him studying the notes that Ted Kord left behind and the different methods and strategies he picked up. And the different lessons he’s taken from all the heroes he’s run into over the two years that have brought him to being a mature superhero able to take care of a threat.
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=148932

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