{"id":770,"date":"2010-06-24T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/24\/comic-book-report-blue-beetle-boundaries\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T18:40:00","slug":"comic-book-report-blue-beetle-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/24\/comic-book-report-blue-beetle-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Blue Beetle: Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TB0dTh2waUI\/AAAAAAABBnk\/rCRkEoXp-TI\/s1600\/11318_400x600.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TB0dTh2waUI\/AAAAAAABBnk\/rCRkEoXp-TI\/s320\/11318_400x600.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I got this book from the library because I&#8217;d liked writer Matthew Sturges&#8217; work on <i>Jack of Fables<\/i> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2010\/04\/comic-book-report-final-crisis_19.html\"><i>Final Crisis Aftermath: Run!<\/i><\/a>.  I&#8217;d seen a few issues of the new Blue Beetle reboot (now cancelled; sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/blue-beetle-we-dont-need-no-stinkin.html\">Rogers<\/a>) and hadn&#8217;t been terribly impressed, but figured I&#8217;d give it another try.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.  Still not impressed.  There&#8217;s nothing actually <i>wrong<\/i> with this book, and it&#8217;s got some interesting elements built into the teenaged-superhero premise, but the pieces just didn&#8217;t jell for me.  Too much Spider-Man, not enough Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  But props for name-checking some real science, even if there&#8217;s a lot of hand-waving in the implementation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1401221629?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1401221629\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book from the library because I&#8217;d liked writer Matthew Sturges&#8217; work on Jack of Fables and Final Crisis Aftermath: Run!. I&#8217;d seen a few issues of the new Blue Beetle reboot (now cancelled; sorry, Rogers) and hadn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}