El Paso Times welcomes Blue Beetle to town
DC Comic's new Blue Beetle series will be set in El Paso, and the El Paso Times couldn't be more excited. The Blue Beetle comic book, scheduled to hit shops March 29, is thought to be the first major superhero series set in El Paso.
"There are a few little things in there that I hope people in El Paso will notice, though I won't say what," Cully Hammer, the artist for Blue Beetle, told Newsarama.com, a comic news Web site. "On the other hand, I've never been to Texas, so I'm relying on Internet research. Hopefully, I won't make any glaring mistakes."
El Paso receives good national exposure in comics, said Michael Almanca, owner of Rebel's Comic Vault on the East Side.
The city was the setting for a couple of comic story lines in recent years. El Paso was in the crime noir DC Comics series "100 Bullets" and in "Coyote Crossing," a Marvel Comics story in which hero Wolverine avenged immigrants who died locked in a tractor-trailer. "Coyote Crossing" included area landmarks such as Paisano Drive.
posted by JK Parkin @ 6:15 PM
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The new look Blue Beetle reminds me of Forager and/or Mantis from the New Gods.
Wonder if there will be an Apokolips/New Genesis connection?
Hmmm, El Paso? That could be cool. Wonder where Vanity, from the El Diablo series of a couple of years ago, was supposed to be though? I could have sworn that imaginary town was somewhere in West Texas.
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I really like the look and design that Hamner's brought to BB. Those preview pages on Nrama have really intrigued me.
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