Blue Beetle #3

Blue Beetle, Issue #3 begins with Jaime Reyes crashing onto an alien planet with his Blue Beetle implant on his back.  He puts up the shields, but he is surrounded by an army of anthropomorphic bugs, which are attacking him.  He's helpless against these bugs when just as soon as he was crashed into the alien planet, he is crashed into Earth, in his neighborhood.  He seeks Ted Kord, the last person to wear the Blue Beetle implant, but Kord has nothing but bad news.

There's a fair amount of text in this issue, yet it's easy to read.  There's nothing worse than a comic with turgid prose all over the place.  Some writers think that if you're charging $3 to $5 for a comic, the readers should spend extra time reading it.  The $2.99 price tag on Blue Beetle is also easy on the wallet.  I bought four comics this week, including this one, and the others cost $4.99, $4.99, and $5.99, although two of them are double issues.  I also bought a mini-comic (Sec) for $5.  I get 20% off at Comics N' Stuff because I pay $10 a year for a membership.

So far, I've read four of the new Blue Beetle comics.  I'm not exactly hooked, but its reading accessibility and price mean that I'll probably go on reading it for the near future.  I do like the new arc, suggesting that there are more than one Blue Beetle.  An origin of the Blue Beetles is promised in the next issue, and I'm looking forward to it.