Blue Beetle, Vol. 4: End Game by John Rogers

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book collects Issues 20-26 of Jaime Reyes' original Blue Beetle series.

Issue 20 is a tie-in into the Sinestro Corps War. It's a decent enough story that shows the strength of Jaime's character and also brings about a big change for Peacemaker.

Issue 21 finds the Spectre haunting a prison punishing the guilty and forces Jaime to confront his own feelings on mercy and revenge. Good character work.

This leads into the big honking event in Issues 22-25 where Jaime takes on the Reach's planned slow invasion of Earth. This is a well-paced story. Events in the comic were really building towards with a nice slow burn. While in the second season of the TV show, "Young Justice," the Reach is taken down by a team of heroes, Jaime does it alone and unlike in other stories in a shared Marvel or DC Universe where the hero takes on a world-threatening villain without calling in other heroes, this story actually addressed why that's not done. Kudos. It's got great action and some solid character moments. Characters who readers who have been loved by fans of the book since its inception all get involved. It's a really fun story.

Issue 26 is told almost entirely in Spanish. It's not a bad story, but it is a bit gimmicky.

Still, it's fun like all the other stories in this volume. This was a really solid volume for the Blue Beetle.



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