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Blue Beetle cancelled!

dark horse

18:43 / 13.11.08

any one else see and lament this news?

link:

One of the books that I’m most disappointed about in that regard is a book like Blue Beetle, which we are cancelling. That’s a book that we started with very high expectations, but it lost its audience along the way. Recently, we felt that it was standing on firmer ground, and was getting a more positive response. The problem is that the firmer ground and positive response is not enough to keep the book afloat. So unfortunately, we had to cancel that series.

this is super lame to me... didio says he's disapppointed in blue beetle but how much more disappointed will the fans who do love that book be! i've collected bb from the beginning and have enjoyed almost every issue... theres plenty more stories to be told about jamie reyes, like for example his relationship with giganta... trust dc to fuck this up!

Essential Dazzler

21:29 / 13.11.08

I've been interested in the book from the beginning but have never gotten around to it, I almost bought the 4 trades last week.

From what I gather John Rogers had finished his run, to almost unanimously glowing reviews and then DC gave it to a bunch of fill-in writers and then executed it by giving Matt Sturges the scripting chores.

Still one complete, satisfying, multi-arc story with a beginning middle and an end, and minimal interbook cross overs in the middle is more than you get from most DC books, so maybe you should just look on the Bright side: Bruce Jones will never write Blue Beetle.

Hmm, I think I'll pick up the books for deffo next week, so I can actually talk about the content, rather than being glib.

Essential Dazzler

21:30 / 13.11.08

Did you want to talk about how you feel DC has fucked up here?

Alex's Grandma

23:01 / 13.11.08

Are you guys tripping balls? The Beetle sucks!

His antics are exactly the sort of material DC shouldn't be publishing if it wants to keep its head above water, in this new and harsher climate.

Has the Beetle ever howled like a maniac in the bins by a McDonalds car park? And what's his bodycount?

I'm guessing the answers are no, and zero. No wonder his series got cancelled.

I have an idea about how the franchise might be revitalised though. I see him in a stained trenchcoat, fretting through the American night. He'll have all the cash that Ted Kord used to, all the mystical powers, it's just that he won't be able to remember where he put them. Crazed with LSD, speed, cocaine and lager, the Beetle will embark on a terrible journey of re-discovery.

It won't be like any earlier iterations of the character

And it's less ridiculous than it sounds - Mark Millar has a career, after all.

Essential Dazzler

23:18 / 13.11.08

y yes i am trippping ballz

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

23:55 / 13.11.08

It makes me sad to see it go -- but it had some fun story-lines and did a nice job of doing away with the secret identity conceit and generating an involving supporting cast. I admit my tendency was to wait for its trade -- and I enjoyed every one of them -- and that thinking, apparently, contributes to low sales on these comics. Jaime's a good character.

Mark Parsons

23:40 / 14.11.08

Loved Rogers run, but was waiting for trades on the latest issues. Very fun series, sad to see it go (for now).

Shame DC could not figure out how to keep this one going. I kept expecting them to release the series in small format tpb, like Marvel's RUNAWAYS and other YA titles, but it never happened. So they really did not figure out how to reach out to a younger audience, which may have embraced the book.

DavidXBrunt

07:39 / 19.11.08

A great book and, sadly one of very few DCU books I still get. Shadowpat? Canned. Blue Beetle? Gone. Booster Gold? Innevitably follows.

dark horse

09:31 / 19.11.08

glad i'm not the only shadowpact fan out there.... that one is much missed as well.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:44 / 19.11.08

Too bad they've cancelled Beetle, considering Jaime just teamed up with Batman on the new The Brave and the Bold toon.

Spaniel

20:50 / 19.11.08

(What's that like, by the way? Feel free to answer in the pm)

Janean Patience

06:42 / 20.11.08

Ah, it's lasted longer than any other series of Blue Beetle ever... I'd be surprised if Charlton managed 10 consecutive issues of either incarnation, and the DC Ted Kord series lasted something like 25. Compared to those this new guy has had a good run.

The same goes for titles like Manhunter. Thirty-odd issues is pretty respectably, more than any previous iteration of the character's managed. Fandom needs to ditch this idea that every ongoing series is going to clock up 100 issues. Those that do have usually degenerated into madness by the end. You've got to have some kind of USP to reach those kind of numbers these days, and "latest version of superhero legacy character" isn't good enough.

The Natural Way

11:42 / 20.11.08

I imagine that's strong truth.

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