razzatazz's Blue Beetle #9 - The Enemy of my Enemy review

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    I am not aroused

    The crossovers at DC which have been running on and off as free advertising hit another group of series here and draws me in as a reader of Green Lantern New Guardians to this particular issue.  It should be said that there is a reason why I have not been reading Blue Beetle, and that's that it is not catered to my particular demographic.  That having been said I come to this on the wrong side of having read the other part of the Green Lantern New Guardians story which this leads into, and this really doesn't compare.  It is not as mentioned that this series is not for me, but rather the miss on characterizations.  It is one thing for a writer to bend a character to a story, but here it seems as though neither Kyle nor Bleez were even referenced by the writer as their characters and dialogue are far off of what should be expected from them by this point.  Bringing up "Women in Refrigerators" also was out of place, almost as though it was glossed over here.  Readers of Blue Beetle may like this, but fans of the cosmic stories might just pass on this and fill in the holes themselves.  

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