I really loved that series...

i very much liked the idea of it from the reality. loved the character, the concept was different than anything out there in mainstream comics, liked Cullin's art.... but i don't think it's that well executed writing wise.

i have all the issues and tried to re read them recently. not that great....BUT, i love.....LOVE, Ty Templeton's Blue Devil story in Secret Origins. that man has not enough comics.

That's what I have fond memories of. Not just the reluctant hero, but the reluctant occult hero. And the "suit is no longer a suit" thing was a fresh idea. And someone who didn't do the superhero thing out of revenge or because of disaster befalling others. The disaster hit him, and he had to find a good attitude and make the best of it.

exactly!

one of the places where they kind dropped the ball was the follow through of his overall setting. like his job and friends at the studio....while kind of a "fall guy" rip.... it wasn't realistic at all in the way a movie studio and relationships within that industry work.

while i realize we're talking about a guy trapped in a devil suit made real here, you have to ground the fantastic in the realistic. i would've liked to see the stories that would've sprung from working within those parameters.

I liked this series quite a bit at the beginning. Loved Paris Cullins on Blue Devil and Blue Beetle.

Number 7 with a bullet!

What other series could get away with a criminal syndicate of mad scientists wanting to use The Trickster's "flying shoe" technology to cause California to break away form the USA??? Great stuff!!!

Was that another real estate scam?

I still have the complete run and re-read it a couple months ago, it's really starts to lag near the end unfortunately. Atari Force as well, that one actually isn't that bad at the end.

I remember reading a little bit of "Atari Force," but no "Blue Devil." I do remember the concept. Lots of entertainment franchises today draw their names from video games, of course, but you probably wouldn't see anything like "Blue Devil" now.

Oh, I remember that ad!

In paying for that page, DC spent more that year to promote Doctor Strange than Marvel had.

Yes! Liked him on the Forever People mini too... then poof!

I didn't read Forever People, but damn, I loved that Blue Beetle series. I really dug the early issues of Blue Devil, too - I don't think I finished the run.

"Junkieburg? JUNKIEBURG??"

I loved this series, art was crisp and clean stories were entertaining.