There Is a Ted!
3 Oct 2011 10:56![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muccamukkFrom the CBR interview with Tony Bedard:
This is the best description of Blue Beetle that I've run into so far (by Greg Burgas): How did Bedard pitch this? “Hey, guys, I want to redo Blue Beetle … exactly how it was done five years ago. How does that sound?” Danny D.: “SOLD! Fetch me my finest Barbados rum, my hunting rifle, and my rarest Siberian tigers, and we’ll celebrate!”
Only it's not exactly how it was done five years ago. He took the old comic and removed all the charm and subtlety. Instead of Paco drifting into an ambiguous gang that Jaime ends up allied with more often than not, he's a straight up gang banger; La Dama has also lost all her ambiguity and is now a straight up drug lord; the Latina crime world now seems to be pretty much evil, rather than caught in a complicated cultural interaction between Mexico, the US, and citizens of both countries; Brenda is in the middle of a love triangle between Jaime and Paco, instead of being the platonic best friend of one and somewhat interested in the other; the scarab isn't meant to infiltrate but to destroy; instead of Jaime's family knowing some of what Jaime does and having to negotiate that with him, they're like Aunt May, and can't ever know, OMG!. It's like he took away everything that was unique and charming about Jaime and turned him into every other teen hero.
But hey, at least Ted Kord isn't retconned out of existence.
Q: Along those lines, as the series is kicking off with the Scarab being a much more openly malevolent force, does this mean Ted Kord and Dan Garrett never had the Scarab in their possession, or had a weaker version? Will the series address how they fit into the new Blue Beetle timeline?
A: As far as I'm concerned, Ted and Dan were around before, but we are not going to address that for now. ... So with all due respect to Ted Kord, whom I love, we're going to let Jaime stand on his own merits for now.
This is the best description of Blue Beetle that I've run into so far (by Greg Burgas): How did Bedard pitch this? “Hey, guys, I want to redo Blue Beetle … exactly how it was done five years ago. How does that sound?” Danny D.: “SOLD! Fetch me my finest Barbados rum, my hunting rifle, and my rarest Siberian tigers, and we’ll celebrate!”
Only it's not exactly how it was done five years ago. He took the old comic and removed all the charm and subtlety. Instead of Paco drifting into an ambiguous gang that Jaime ends up allied with more often than not, he's a straight up gang banger; La Dama has also lost all her ambiguity and is now a straight up drug lord; the Latina crime world now seems to be pretty much evil, rather than caught in a complicated cultural interaction between Mexico, the US, and citizens of both countries; Brenda is in the middle of a love triangle between Jaime and Paco, instead of being the platonic best friend of one and somewhat interested in the other; the scarab isn't meant to infiltrate but to destroy; instead of Jaime's family knowing some of what Jaime does and having to negotiate that with him, they're like Aunt May, and can't ever know, OMG!. It's like he took away everything that was unique and charming about Jaime and turned him into every other teen hero.
But hey, at least Ted Kord isn't retconned out of existence.
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Date: 3 Oct 2011 20:05 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 4 Oct 2011 00:19 (UTC)Oh, DC. You still just don't get it, do you?
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Date: 4 Oct 2011 04:13 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 4 Oct 2011 04:30 (UTC)I get their thinking on quite a few titles and approve of it. I get their thinking on a few more titles and think it's total bull shit. This and a few others have just left me scratching my head.
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Date: 4 Oct 2011 05:33 (UTC)Has a sad. Those were the good things!
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Date: 4 Oct 2011 21:29 (UTC)They were the things that made the book special, for sure. Maybe it will get better? I'm not holding my breath though.
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Date: 4 Oct 2011 23:42 (UTC)I'm not against Ted coming back, mind you. But there were some nifty things in the first Jaime series that oughtn't be replaced. Oh well.