Blue Beetle #4 - DC

I really like the direction that Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Cully Hamner are taking this book in. A high school kid named Jamie, has obtained the power of the Scarab. So to find out more of what he's dealing with, he looks up the Blue Beetle's history on line and starts taking notes. Oracle tries to introduce herself, but of course he's suspicious and gets mad and ends up thrashing his computer. After that we mostly deal with the dialogue between him and his mom, and him and his friends. They're all trying to figure out what exactly is going on, and what they can do to help and support Jamie. There's also a bad guy, mystic, who happens to be working for one of his friends mother, who decides he's going to test the Beetle to see what he knows, how he's dealing with it, and if he's going to pose a threat. The teen angst in this book, puts me back to the early days of the Spider-man. Which is a good thing. Like so many other new books by DC, this one has amazing potential. And with someone like Keith Giffen at the helm, I can't see them leaving to many ideas out of the mix.