Jaime Reyes is the third person to use the name Blue Beetle. The first was rookie patrolman Dan Garrett wearing chainmail armor and packing gadgets. He would be retconned by Charlton Comics into an archaeologist who stumbles on a magic scarab that transforms him into the Blue Beetle. He would be replaced by Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. While he couldn’t get the scarab to work for him he opted to follow the original’s example and make his own gadgets. Reyes would, long story short, take on the magic scarab, now revealed to be an alien artifact sent by the Reach as part of their planetary conquest scheme, but Jaime would reform or reprogram or whatever he did to the thing and became a true hero. Linkara did a huge retrospective on the various incarnations if you’re interested.
Blue Beetle is one of the pre-Gunn projects that David Zaslav hasn’t axed, with a mostly Hispanic cast as the heroes and white people as the villains, which should (but probably won’t) squash the idea that the race-swapped Batgirl movie was wiped out because of racism rather than being so terrible he couldn’t bear to release it. It appears that the movie will go the pre-52 route, with Reyes’ family supporting him as the third generation superhero and being allowed to know his identity. It also looks more fun than a lot of DC movies recently and without using the reimagined version ala Shazam/the original Captain Marvel. It is going to be good? All we have is a trailer and a long history that at least gives us questions to answer.
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My reaction isn’t as strong but Geoff Thew does raise some good points. There isn’t enough here for me to build an article off of but I do agree with a lot of Thew’s points. Note that some swearing takes place.
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See my full thoughts on “Anime Rock Paper Scissors” in this article.
Admittedly I didn’t think of as many negatives as Geoff did but it does make me understand a bit more the current battle between AI art and people-made art that I am not well versed enough yet to do a full article on. Maybe when the nonsense clears and I can look into this a bit more I’ll be able to make a full-on commentary on it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 3, 2023 in Animation Spotlight, Internet Spotlight and tagged AI rotoscoping, animation, commentary, Corridor Digital, Mother's Basement.
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