Banal, cacophonous, and derivative—with references and arcs taken from countless superhero predecessors—“Blue Beetle” will have you begging for James Gunn’s DC era to start.
2 fashion, he teaches his symbiotic scarab suit not to kill. As Jamie later learns, he’s not the first Blue Beetle; à la
, his predecessor Ted Kord was a scientific-genius pioneer, and Jamie is pitted against a rival who covets his own scarab-y armor.that’s akin to his own Batcave, which is exciting to Rudy even though he bluntly states, “Batman’s a fascist.
Then again, given that Blue Beetle is an underwhelming also-ran to begin with , his big-screen outing wouldn’t exist in the first place if not for the success of his precursors. In every way, he’s a creaky chip off the old block—as well as a further sign that the superhero-blockbuster heyday forged by his ancestors is fast coming to a close.
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