Who Is the Black Beetle?
For the last couple of months, I’ve been getting confused and irate readers correcting me whenever I cite the “mystery of the Black Beetle,” pointing out that Hector, a member of Jaime Reyes’ popular supporting cast in the Blue Beetle monthly comic, was in fact implied to be the Black Beetle and that there IS no mystery. While Booster Gold writer (and the character’s co-creator) Dan Jurgens has never denied that Hector is the Black Beetle, he has made several statements intimating that when the villain’s identity is revealed, it will be someone that Booster (and his fans) will recognized and be shocked by. Frankly, Hector doesn’t seem to fit that bill to me. Still, nobody had ever really talked to Matt Sturges about what it is he intended for Hector, and for the Black Beetle character, when he wrote that loaded sequence last year at the end of Blue Beetle. But now that Blue Beetle has returned as a second feature behind Booster Gold, and both titles are featuring Black Beetle as the vi
