The New Blue Beetle, is he cool?

Cafe Society
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As a kid I bought the old Charlton Dan Garrett Blue Beetle with the magic scarab.
Then as a Steve Ditko fan I enjoyed Ted Cord as the new less powerful Beetle.
Now I see there’s a new BB and the magic scarab is back and embedded in some young kids spine. It becomes armor? Is this like the “good skin” XO armor thing?

Is anyone following this character? What kind of powers? How’s the art work?

and most importantly, how cool is it? Is the storyline interesting at all.

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I like it, but I may be in the minority. The art’s a little cartoony, but the writing’s got a well-matched light touch, so I think it works. Though they’re changing up the creative team, next issue.

His powers are, as of yet, ill-defined. The armor that is generated gives him some interesting extrasensory capacity and some energy-manipulation abilities. It also reacts poorly to GL Rings, for an as-yet unspecified reason.