I've been sitting on some Amazon gift certificates for a couple of months, so maybe it's time to use them. I'm a little leery for two reasons. If I start dipping my toe into DC, I could easily double my budget. (Don't even get me started on some Vertigo and Image stuff.) It's actually a great problem to have: too many comics to buy.
And two, I'm not that caught up in what's going on in DC land - I have pretty much the most rudimentary knowledge of what happened in 52 and the differing Crisis'. That gonna give me any problem with this? (Booster hasn't given me any problems.) Any thoughts?
Like Corp & Darth have said, BLUE BEETLE has remained mostly separated from the DC's events. It has tie-in's but they are self contained. The only quibble may be the beginning, as Jamie technically debuted in INFINITE CRISIS, not BLUE BEETLE, which recaps his story and embellishes the origin. I'm pretty certain you could read it and get all you need to know. The first trade deals heavily with his origin, after all. I hardly collect many DC titles either, and I completely enjoy the book.
I almost never dive headfirst into new books out of fear of not knowing the continuity. I recommend this. That says somethin'.
I don't care about Echo, really. Her DD issues were kind of trippy, but the character herself isn't interesting at all to me.
I hate Echo. Seriously out of all the people that are on the two Avengers teams right now. She's the one that just sticks out like a sore thumb and makes you go ''What the **** is this lame attempt at the second coming of Elektra doing here?"
I don't care for Echo, either, and I agree with the assertion that she is Elektra-Lite, with Taskmaster's power thrown in. We could probably think of a dozen more worthy heroines on the NA than she. But that means they'd have to be written by Bendis. So, on those terms, I can accept Echo.
The criticism doesn't work.
Firstly it's made blatantly obvious by the over-written exposition that the skrull was going to kill and replace echo, hence no need to deny.
Secondly the skrull wasn't killed, it flew away (even though the dialogue says teleported).
I still contend that Bendis has written himself into a hole with the Skrulls. Without any way of telling who is and who isn't a Skrull, we're reduced to either dumb luck, random situations, or the Skrull outing themselves. There were far better ways to assasinate Echo than the way chosen. You can't build up the Skrulls as a fearsome enough stealth force that they can take over before the war has begun and then make them completely inept on replacing "certain" characters. I mean, was the Skrull who replaced Black Bolt that inept? Or Ms. Marvel? Or whoever else? Why get stupid with a measily threat like Echo? I mean, I've seen Ming the Merciless handle situations with more finesse.
You can't build the Skrulls as being "really serious, really cunning, really powerful THIS TIME" and then have them be complete tactical ******s because a writer needs a character to survive.
**** the Skrulls. I want to see how the hell Starlord and the space heroes are stopping Ultron and his army of Adam Warlock clones.
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