Blue Beetle Vol 2 8

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"Road Trip"

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Blue Beetle Vol 2 #8
December, 2006

Executive Editor

Dan DiDio

Cover Artists

Duncan Rouleau

Writers

Keith Giffen, John Rogers

Pencilers

Cully Hamner

Inkers

Casey Jones

Colourists

Guy Major

Letterers

Jared K. Fletcher

Editors

Joan Hilty, Rachel Gluckstern

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Appearing in "Road Trip"

Featured Characters:

• Blue Beetle

Supporting Characters:

• Brenda
• Peacemaker
• Bottom Feeder
• Paco
• Piñata
• Bianca Reyes
• Milagro Reyes

Villains:

Other Characters:

• Dan Garrett (In flashback only)
• Ted Kord (In flashback only)
• Question (In flashback only)
• Judomaster (In flashback only)
• Tiger (In flashback only)
• Danielle Garrett (First appearance)
• Mrs. Garrett (In flashback only)
• Nadia
• Pastor Richie (First and only known appearance to date)

Locations:

• Kansas
• El Paso, Texas

Items:

• Blue Beetle Scarab

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "Road Trip"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

• Bottom Feeder raves of an 'army from the heavens' he sees in his dreams, an army called the 'Reach'. One of the lines on Rip Hunter's chalkboard in 52 #6 is 'The reach. The reach. The reach.', suggesting a connection between the two.

Translating the Scarab

From issue #5 on, the Scarab's language can be translated using a substitution cipher. Each symbol in the Scarab's language represents a different letter in the English alphabet. The Scarab uses no capital letters or punctuation marks, so these have been put in where applicable. The Scarab does, however, use abbreviations.

There are 22 pages of comic, ignoring the adverts and DC Nation. Panels are counted from the top down, left to right.

• Page 13, panel 3 - "Alert! Enemy approaching!"
• Page 15, panel 3 - "Alert! Alert! Alert!"

Trivia

• The roadhouse cafe Rucka's Hut is a reference to Greg Rucka, another writer for DC.

• The website Brenda uses to find out about Dan Garrett's house, superhumanresources.com, also appeared in another Keith Giffen series, Formerly Known as the Justice League, as superhumanresource.com (without the 's' on 'resources').

• The name the Peacemaker uses in this issue, 'Mitchell Black', is a reference to Mitchell Black, the second Peacemaker.

• This is the first time Dan, Ted and Jaime appear in the same issue.

See Also

• Discuss Blue Beetle Vol 2 8 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Blue Beetle series

Recommended Reading

• Secret Origins #2
• 52 #6

Links and References

• Blue Beetle (Volume 2) series index at Comicbookdb.com
• Blue Beetle (Volume 2) series index at the Grand Comics Database Project

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