Blue Beetle 12 and 13

Blue Beetle (Volume 6) #12
Written by John Rogers
Art and Cover by Rafael Albuquerque

It still feels that the unraveling of the mystery of the Blue Beetle scarab is taking way too long. I mean it has been a year already and we still know barely more than we did at issue 1. Luckily, this issue we learn a bit more. It's a small step and hopefully next issue we can learn even more. There wasn't anything too exciting in this issue, but at least we now know the scarab is activated and a takes a host when a planet has entered a certain level of technology and/or civilization.

Blue Beetle (Volume 6) #13
Written by John Rogers
Art and Cover by Rafael Albuquerque

Ah I was right in guessing more would be revealed in this issue. So the Reach are an evil alien race that uses the scarab to enslave planets, but like the aliens from Mars Attacks, they pretend to be nice first. I love how they are so shocked that Jaime doesn't use the scarab to kill and it was great to see them so shocked that there were multiple Green Lanterns on this planet. Now that I think about it, I really enjoyed this issue. It was exciting and answered a lot of questions. My favorite line must be when Jaime said, "Bring it, Ese." That was great stuff.