Blue Beetle

Blue Beetle started out at Charlton Comics, created by artist and writer Steve Ditko.

When Charlton closed up shop the company sold the rights to its comic book characters to DC Comics.

Originally Watchman writer Alan Moore was going to use the Charlton characters in his highly successful Watchmen maxi-series.

DC executive squelched the idea and instead Moore created his own characters fashioned after the Charlton superheroes.

Meanwhile DC reintroduced the Charlton comic book cast, several n their own series. Blue Beetle was one of them.

The series caught on with fans and was a moderate success. However it was the Identity Crisis mini-series that set Blue Beetle apart from his earlier persona.

That Blue Beetle was murdered (albeit he was eventually brought back).

DC Comics decided to create a new Blue Beetle. He was Jamie Reyes who discovered an alien ‘egg’ that contained a carapace, war machine, sentient suit, that promptly bound itself to Jamie.

Together they are the superhero Blue Beetle.

In the new Blue Beetle movie the origin of Blue Beetle is shown. The film delves in to the history of the biotech armor and together the suit and Jaime face off against what seems unstoppable foes who want the suit or to destroy it.

Heavy emphasis is placed on the companionship between Jaime and the suit as it evolves.

Longtime DC Comics fan have lots of Easter eggs to look for such as the original Blue Beetle (Ted Cord) brief cameo, his secret lair and high-tech arsenal and mechanisms, OMAC and many other DC comics characters and icons.

The Blue Beetle Blu-ray/Digital Code Combo from Warner Bros./Discovery also includes several Blue Beetle featurettes.

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