By Emiliano Aguilar Jaime Reyes’ teenage years are spent navigating not the fictionalized spaces like Gotham and Metropolis, but the real-world around us in El Paso, Texas. In Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo’s reimaging of Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle’s origin story in This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story, Jaime faces making sense of the extraterrestrial world that a strange artifact opens up to him and the xenophobic concerns around “illegal aliens” in his hometown of El Paso, Texas. The artifact, a scarab that fused to his spine, grants Jaime access to a durable, shape-shifting exosuit. Through the exosuit,… Read More